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...most astounding crimes in the approved Raffles' manner. Then the God of the cinema ushered in the hotel theme with the monumental productions, "Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...
When Roxy's Gang went touring last spring (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931), one of its stands was Omaha. One of its leading entertainers was Soprano Beatrice Belkin, a pretty, sprightly little girl from Lawrence, Kans. Little Joseph Littau, the bright, bushy-haired conductor of the Omaha Symphony, went eagerly to meet Beatrice Belkin, seized her in a wholehearted embrace. Natives of Omaha who witnessed their salute were taken slightly aback but they knew that Conductor Littau had also been a protégé of Roxy (S. J. Rothafel), assumed that perhaps theatrefolk in the East acted that...
...Chicago, and to a lesser extent throughout the country. James Herbert Wilkerson is something of a judicial hero. His promotion by President Hoover was frankly the result of "his splendid service" in curbing gang activities. He it was who sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When...
...result of his gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...
Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...