Word: croupiers
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...spaniel. Wolfish Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle ; he was now referring to the animal as a roach...
...bland, dark, persistent man of 38 who started out in life to be a concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army in or near Paris...
This lengthy, maudlin attempt to tell a tale of frontier womanhood is tough on Pioneer Stanwyck. Most of the time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired...
...offices in Manhattan's Squibb Building overlooking Central Park. The nameless door was guarded by a plug-ugly who kept its key locked in a little green cabinet. No one could leave while the market was open; only outgoing telephone calls were allowed. Inside, like a grand croupier, sat Jesse Livermore, a bank of telephones at his elbow, his sharp blue eyes on his private board...
...Manhattan show, Artist Martin had a slick portrait, some moody nudes, done in cool tones which nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th...