Chandler (Louis Sorin).Mrs.Rittenhouse""s daughter Arabella (Lillian Roth) is in love with a penniless, struggling, would-be young artist named Johnny Parker (Hal Thompson), but her mother is concerned about he mismatched social status of the romance.While writing his newspaper story in hisDaily Planetoffice ("the prettiest girl in the school is still the prettiest girl in the school"), Clark received a frantic phone call from Lana, about how Ricky had promised his friends that Superman would appear at his next Wednesday""s birthday party.He would be a Messianic figure of sorts.And Ann finagles her job back (her "meal ticket"), with a $1,000 bonus.A number of likely individuals are escorted into Connell""s office for covert interviews.The door opens on "Long John" Willoughby (Gary Cooper) - a plain-speaking, penniless homeless man and an ex-ballplaying (bush-league, sand-lot) pitcher with a sore arm (his "wing went bad").During a brutal fist fight, Vince accidentally killed the man with a flurry of punches.The bartender knelt down o determine the condition of the downed man and alerted the other customers: ("Somebody call a doctor, this guy""s hurt bad").