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...hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with the dancer, finds the money to pay off Young Clem's thievings, sends it to his wife with a message that he is leaving town. At the station, Clem hopes his family will turn...
...second theft within a year at the Fogg Art Museum took place last Monday, when two valuable pen and ink sketches by Rembrandt were stolen. Police and art dealers have been notified of the robbery by two directors of the Museum, Professor Edward W. Forbes '95, and Professor Paul J. Sachs '00, who owned the drawings...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...
...policies insure against breakage, fire from any cause, including lightning, theft, and hazards of transportation. The policy goes on to say that it "does not insure against infidelity of persons to whom the skis may be loaned," a sad commentary on the morals of skiers...
...strapping, wealthy Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley. Day after day, week after week newspapers dished up incidents from Mrs. Muench's past. At police headquarters they found a rogues' gallery portrait of Nellie Muench taken in 1919 when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning a fake jewelry store holdup. News photographers dogged her footsteps, snapped her picture as she swore lustily...