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Home to Brooklyn from the bull rings of Spain last week went Sidney Franklin (né Frumkin), matador extraordinary. All the world knows that he, a policeman's son, left Flatbush to study painting in Mexico and there learned the bullfighter's art from Master Matador Rodolfo Gaona; that in Spain he has slain 50 bulls for the bravos and pesetas of the populace (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929; March 24). But at his homecoming his friends and managers did not leave his fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression...
...Royal Box (Warner). A Frenchman's play about an English actor is now translated into German, so that famed Alexander Moissi can play it. But The Royal Box was not made in Germany but at Flatbush, N. Y. in the old Vitagraph studio where the late John Bunny and the Talmadge girls did their first work. It is Dumas' story of how Edmund Kean insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting...
...Murray, flutter-footed cinemactress, sued Fox Theatres Corp., Peter Clark, Inc., Flatbush Ave. & Nevins St. Co. and William Fox Circuit of Theatres for $250,000, claiming that while dancing at the Fox Theatres (Brooklyn) last December her heel caught in a crack on the stage causing her to trip, fall, break a bone in the invaluable left foot of Mae Murray...
...lorry lumbered along a street in Flatbush, (residential) Brooklyn. It was packed tight with brick. On its side was the dusty legend. GREINER CONTRACTING CO., INC. A child screamed. A few hours later surgeons amputated what was left of her crushed left leg. Lorries of the Greiner company continued to haul brick through Brooklyn streets. Bricklayers continued to slap their trowels for the Audley Clarke Co., which had contracted with the Greiner company for the delivery of the brick. This was seven years...
...this city in Church circles we have the Rev. Irving Berg, Pastor of the Fort Washington (Congregational) ; the Rev J. Frederic Berg, Pastor of the Flatbush Dutch Reform Church; and for almost half a century, Albert Wilhelm Berg (now deceased) was the organist of the famous Little Church Around the Corner (Episcopal...