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...millionaire if you can keep on doing that." Presently Pike Peters is bankrupt. This gives him a chance to discharge his butler, whom he hates, and to meet an old friend, the Grand Duke Michael. The Grand Duke (Theodore Lodi) has become a hotel doorman. As is customary in pictures dealing with financial reverses, Depression is shown to have a silver lining. The Peters family, awakened to the joys of simple living, take up residence in a shack, where Pike Peters happily cooks his own meals...
...Coney Island, N. Y., an inquiring reporter of Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News received platitudinous replies to his question, "Have you ever known a person with a broken heart who failed to recover?" until he queried angry, baldheaded, bejowled J. J. Healey, doorman. Said he: "Yes, myself. Years ago a woman broke my heart and ran away. I got a job in front of this museum, knowing that some day she will pass this door, and when she does, I'm going to break...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
...apartment. "Mon Dieu, how was I to know?" said the shopkeeper. "He seemed perfectly calm, parfaitement!" Only the Kreuger concierge noticed anything unusual, noticed that when the Match King came home with a package in his hand he did not smile or reply as he always had to the doorman's greeting. Going upstairs, Titan Kreuger wrote three letters in longhand to relatives, loosened his clothes, pulled the trigger...