He wrote it as a magazine serial, hoping that the serial would then be sold to a movie studio ... flirtation between Phyllis ...

Reason for audience indifference is somewhat guttural. Barbara Stanwyck as the flip gal who knows pretty much what it's all about at the time she applies as an apprentice and cleans up on whatever ...

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire ...