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...picket boat pursued. Boatswain Ingraham turned to Fireman's Mate Harold Lopes. "Fire a few shots across her bow," he ordered. "Aim at the superstructure of the new bridge across the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Hasty Pudding Club in producing their 1929 play, "Fireman Save My Child", left no stone unturned in their attempt to make the play as historically accurate as possible. The fire-engine which is being used in the performance is an exact reproduction of the type manned by the original "Cambridge Catamounts" and shows to good advantage the work which was done by the producers to get the exact replica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carpenter Delves Into Depths of Widener to Find Model for Pudding Engine--Pump Takes Place of Lampy's Old Wagon | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...grand triumph, George Weller, internationally known playwright has out-done all his previous efforts. His latest and greatest work, the climax of a happy life is now being performed at the Hasty Pudding. It is an adaptation of the "Electra" of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child". From the opening curtain to the last bow of smiling actor grim tragedy stalks the scene, tears flow and countless lumps rise in an equally indefinite number of throats. This is all the more remarkable as the adaptation is in reality meant to be a comedy...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job. He became a fireman. Best shot of this smart film- Strong Boy and the lost child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Reynoldsville, Pa., one Frank Chiffen, silk-mill fireman, shut up his wife in his house and nailed boards over all but one of the windows and doors. At the remaining door he chained three dogs. Whenever he heard the dogs bark he ran home from the mill to investigate. Failing to catch anyone with his wife, he sharpened his axe, ran to the house, decapitated his wife, shot himself through the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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