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Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
Crime. The thug-belabored Manhattan, Playwrights Samuel Shipman and John Hymer brought comfort. Your real criminal, they divulged, never shoots in the head or abdomen for death, but merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester...
Last week, for the 27th time, Death came to a Moffat Tunnel workman. King F. Weston and E. J. Shepard were carrying a burned-out electric motor when Mr. Weston leaned against an open switch, crumpled, died. Mr. Shepard slipped, crushed his leg beneath the motor...
...night and his wife's lapdog, he said: "I had to choose between sleeping beside the beast or not sleeping with my wife. A terrible dilemma, but I had to take it or leave it. I resigned myself. The dog was less accommodating. I have the marks on my leg to show what he thought about the matter...
...quite bad. Otherwise Johnny Dooley, almost always, and Joe Cook, featured, but less consistently, can wheedle laughs from their audience and furnish amusement, never hilarious. The chorus, so integral a part of every revue, must be particularly brainy. Condemn the chorus and it leaves the show scarcely a leg to stand...