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...Antonio Latour, one of Mr. Wright's heroes, was once an actor, then retired to be the harmless reprobate of his native Midwestern small town. He had loved, but in vain, Harriet Noel?she who might have been one of the world's great actresses had it not been for her villain husband and her darling son, for whose future stage career she gladly sacrificed her own. Young son Pierre, too soon an orphan, had been brought up by old Tony to fulfill his mother's dreams...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...
...thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
Senator Watson, the Republican leader, sweated long but in vain to induce the Senate to accept President Hoover's views. He found he was dealing with politicians whose minds were riveted on the soldier vote in their States this year. Frank was his statement: "I know the Senate will not adjourn until this bill is passed and you could not drive the House out of Washington until it provides pension legislation...
...grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only 75 miles...