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...drama student at Columbia, musicomedy actor. Although he has dropped his last name, he is proud of the supposition that he had pedagogical progenitors, of the fact that his great-grandfather and two great-granduncles founded Goucher College (for women) in Baltimore. Fond of corned-beef, cabbage, good beer and other Irish luxuries, Funnyman Dowling says he would like to be an official in an orphanage so that he could amuse the inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed two of his pictures, was shown to have obtained its funds from fraudulent...
...Manhattan Administrator Andrew McCampbell led 25 of his agents in a raid upon a $1,000,000 brewery where 30,000 gallons of beer were seized, four workmen arrested, a major source of supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood...
Young Apache Gilbert admitted the dance engagement but said the white girl had changed her mind, refused to go with him. When her disappearance was first reported he was arrested and jailed on a charge of selling beer. He said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. Attempts to obtain information from two other taciturn Indians who were held, were equally fruitless. U. S. District Attorney John C. Gung'l went from Phoenix to White River. Friend of Indians, he announced: "It is unfair to condemn the Apache tribe because this brutal killing took place...
...temporarily the favorite of the students, who were making the most ruckus in Santiago last week. Versed in student excitements, he appeared at a tall window of the Moneda Palace, presidential residence, and got the clamoring crowd to sing. They sang until thirsty. Then they dispersed to restaurants for beer and harangues...
...your near-beer, folks, get your near-beer before you see the miracle. It's hot back in that there alley...