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NowaDays. When two girls fancy a man, everyone is apt to be perturbed, and someone, according to Playwright Arthur F. Brash, is likely to get killed. Barbara Herford and Paula Newhall bet fifty dollars over Boyd Butler, a robust footballer who was also greatly interested in such erudite matters as coin collections...
Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger...
Born. To Major & Mrs. Frederick (Irene Castle) McLaughlin of Chicago, a son (incubator baby). The McLaughlins' Barbara...
Married. Michael J. P. Cudahy, grandson of Meatpacker Michael Cudahy; to Cinemactress Muriel Evans (real name: Muriel Evansen); at Riverside, Calif. In 1927, Heir Cudahy attempted elopement with Cinemactress Marie Astaire, was intercepted by his mother at Santa Barbara, jailed, sent home, "put to bed for safe keeping...
Died. Col. Arthur E. Randle, 70, of Washington, D. C., business and civic leader; on a ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.; by suicide...