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...managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken, the mother and her husband commit suicide. An important difference between the play and the Gordon case: no managing editor wilfully dug up the Gordon woman's past without provocation...
Near Zeeland, Mich. Gerrit Wyngarden was struck in the eye by a stray bullet while hunting. He went to Ann Arbor for treatment, found he might lose the sight of both eyes. Then he was stricken with appendicitis, underwent an emergency appendectomy. Then, while Gerrit Wyngarden was recovering, his wife was brought to bed of a child, died. Next day his chicken hatchery, sole means of subsistence, burned to the ground...
Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...
...record in the same case she had stricken her statement to defense counsel that he was "going to be limited" in presenting evidence. Later she cut him short with a refusal to hear more of his witnesses-and then deleted it from the record. She practically forced the defendant to take the stand, ordered her to "get up" and "stop arguing." But from the revised record Magistrate Norris had also edited these judicial imperatives. The defendant was convicted, sent to the work house for 100 days...
...Pianist Josef Hofmann lay dying in his home on Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, and were able to choose music to accompany his passing, if Retired Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney were similarly stricken and privileged, both men would ask to hear the surging Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...