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...often wonder," he told a CRIMSON reporter last night, "why Harvard University doesn't take more of a hand in the matter, why it doesn't try to prevent that gang of low politicians from making this city the laughing stock of America: but," he added, after a contemplative pause, "I guess Harvard's got troubles enough of its own with its football team...
...Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...
Wounded War veteran . . . broke . . . robs store . . . is sentenced to serve six to ten years in a Georgia chain gang . . . escapes . . . reforms . . . becomes successful Chicago magazine editor ... is forced to marry a woman 14 years his senior for fear she will betray him ... is betrayed by her because of jealousy over a younger, prettier woman...
Berlin first-nighters gathered last week in the Theater am Schiflbauerdarnm for an opening of note. Flimsy programs purchased from elderly ushers announced that they were to witness Happy End, a Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
...most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...