When the spotlight is shone on New York Express editor Mark Chapman during his newspaper's content-generating "Lonelyhearts Ball", the camera takes notice of a woman taking notice of Chapman. She is Charlotte, the wife Chapman ran out on twenty years before, when he was known as George.
Charlotte confronts Chapman, and Chapman whisks her away. They go back to her dingy apartment, where Charlotte recounts the pain he caused her. Eager to divest himself of the situation, Chapman throws money on the bed; Charlotte, insulted, throws it back at him and wonders out loud what a rival newspaper might make of her story. You'll have to see the trailer to Phil Karlson's 1952 film Scandal Sheet (based on film director Sam Fuller's 1944 novel The Dark Page) to know the rest.
I love the shot above, where Charlotte, as seen in the mirror's reflection, goes to the window to close the blind. "Outside" the window, a rear-projected film of an approaching train.
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