《Autour de l""argent (Short 1929)》Storyline
[Later, at the Empire Hotel, Judy similarly stands in a second-floor window.] He is puzzled by her strange, mysterious wanderings and rance-like behavior.Scottie enters the Hotel to follow the ethereal woman - he looks up the stairs past a magnificent, suspended hanging chandelier with crystal pendants.Jack: I don""t believe they did.Ullman: Well, uh, my predecessor in this job, hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker.One of the film""s posters succinctly describes the wo major leads and their perverse, evil and interchangeable characters - and the attraction/repulsion quality of their interaction:J.Teasdale: Oh, your Excellency.We""ve been expecting you.As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia.A sardonic Humbert is polite to her, but he detests her vacuous, rying-hard-to-impress chatter, cheap intellectualism, and ""artist"" name-dropping, and at one point walks out of the frame of view.