She tells him "bits and pieces" about what she has learned about the investigation of the severed ear by eavesdropping - using her own ear to learn mysterious details about corruption teeming around them:Sandy: There are a couple of cases I get mixed up on.The classic MGM film - a pet project of MGM""s production head Irving Thalberg ("Boy Wonder") was directed by Edmund Goulding who had acquired the nickname "Lion Tamer" for his ability to deal with many temperamental Hollywood stars, as he did in this film.You were wonderful...I remember it as plainly as if it was yesterday, hough I was only a little girl at the time...Carlotta: We must have a nice talk about the Civil War sometime, just you and I.As one of the few stockholders in the Jordan shipping business, she proposed selling back her declining Jordan stock, her only remaining wealth, to restore herself ("Ladies must live") during the hard times.Mischievous Henry (played by young George), ""Peck""s Bad Boy,"" pelts grocer Schults (Harry Jones) and an Irish cop (Roy T.