Icey Spoon (Evelyn Varden) to find a husband:Icey: Willa Harper, there are certain plain facts of life that adds up just like two plus two makes four, and one of ""em is this."In an often-overlooked scene that occurs in the police station, sounds are noisily over-exaggerated.You gotta get out now, away from me...You get low, you stay low.No more friends.Nothing familiar.There""s enough in there for you to make a life.Any life...I""ll end it.Go ahead." He used the Professor""s phone to speak to Conklin, falsely reported that Marie was dead, and then proposed a meeting with Conklin in Paris at 5:30 pm that day, in the middle of a bridge named Pont Neuf.BackgroundThe Talk of the Town(1942) is a classic romantic comedy/drama of the 1940s from producer/director George Stevens and Columbia Pictures.When the door bell rings, he door to the office at 611 Polk Street opens, where McTeague""s best friend Marcus Schouler (Jean Hersholt) and Marcus"" cousin Trina (Zasu Pitts) are ushered in to take a seat while he finishes his work on Miss Baker (Fanny Midgley).