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...chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies...
Defeated by an Eli team for the first time in racket history, Varsity squashmen bowed to Yale 6-3 as Freshmen were downed 3-2 on home courts last Saturday. Meanwhile First and Yardling matmen outgrappled and outlasted aggressive Tutts teams at Medford, 15 1-2 to 12 1-2 and 33 to 3 respectively...
...list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never wears a uniform off the station or post unless it is unavoidable. Admiral Byrd, apparently, does not possess this "passion for anonymity." But we might point out that even publicity-hungry, head-scratching Smedley Butler manages to pursue his racket of lecturing on "War is a Racket" in civilian clothes with not one of his five medals in sight. Spray 'em with Larvex, Admiral, and pack 'em in mothballs...
Just after one midnight last week Sheriff Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they...
...chief interest in this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked...