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...Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect, she the Duchess of Towers. Nudged by the coincidence that both have the same dreams at night, they fall in love once more, again with tragic consequences when Peter Ibbetson goes to jail for murder. In this crisis their faculty of "dreaming true" is convenient. Divided by day, they spend their nights together, roaming the happy landscapes of illusion until both die, almost simultaneously...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
After conviction and completion of a jail sentence, he goes back to his vegetable cart. Finding himself despised by the world, he becomes disillusioned, gives up his cart, and takes to drink...
...jail last week, so his Rome press friends wrote, sat an embittered anti-Fascist correspondent, International News Service's Guglielmo Emanuel. The least of Newshawk Emanuel's incessant conversational jibes has been to refer to the slightly exophthalmic Dictator as "Banjo-Eyes." After ten years in Rome for I.N.S., this Mussolini-baiter was arrested by the Italian counter-espionage service as an alleged spy in Britain's pay who cleverly masked his activities by working for William Randolph Hearst...
...Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10? bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands...