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At a concert in 1929, bushy beloved Sir Henry Wood, famed English conductor, led his orchestra through Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in...
Mrs. Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine...
Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out...
One thing the Stavisky investigations have done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and...
Died. Sir Gerald du Maurier, 61, actor, manager, son of the late Artist & Novelist George du Maurier (Trilby, Peter Ibbetson); following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby...