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Adoration. A Russian prince (Antonio Moreno), works as a waiter in a Paris restaurant, cherishing a revolver with three bullets in it-one for his wife (Billie Dove), one for a certain count, and one for himself. Miss Dove is photographed in clinging gowns, with turbans, without turbans, with headdress, without headdress. Before the end Mr. Moreno sees his mistake about the count. Best shot: General Alexis Muratov shutting up his shoeshine parlor...
...tells of some difficulties in fitting the assignment to the convict's previous vocation. The skywriting aviator was "given a job painting the smokestacks and roofs; the prison warden was put in charge of the chickens; the radio-announcer was given a mop; the judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given the job of manicuring the yard; and the pretzel peddler was assigned...
Across the Mississippi he worked his way by stoking on a ferry. When he stumbled up the levee he had no resources other than a staggering nose and an inclination to follow it into perilous places. It led him to jobs such as muleteer, waiter, stevedore, hack driver. It took him to libraries and book shops, and eventually to the editorial offices of Westliche Post, where he became a reporter...
...Waiter Brown: "Here is one with jest a little more brown on top. The pies with crust on 'em were ate by the Secret Service...
President Coolidge eyed his new pie and nodded. Waiter Brown withdrew. President Coolidge picked up a fork and said to Mrs. Coolidge: "Pretty good answer...