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What happened then was suppressed for a week. This week Cissy Patterson's Times-Herald, which likes neither Franklin Roosevelt nor unions, disclosed that the result had been a first-class brawl...
...Times-Herald account said "it was believed" that the Teamsters' greying, pink-cheeked president, "Uncle Dan" Tobin himself, had been one of the participants in the fight. It said further that Uncle Dan had promptly called Presidential Secretary Steve Early and demanded that the news of the brawl be suppressed...
...Everett Horton's improved life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets...
Some of the causes of delinquency are crudely underlined and reiterated; some of the delinquent episodes are dragged in by the hair. It will remain a mystery forever, for instance, just how or why Miss Granville gets killed in a roadhouse brawl. But a memorable amount of adolescent confusion and pain flickers on& off-beam, illuminating its causes with an honesty, economy and poignancy which are rare on the U.S. screen...
Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society meets for the annual Spring Farewell Brawl. Extraordinary guests at this evening's clandestine meeting will include Julius Van Duerk, inventive genius responsible for the radically new nine-hole button guaranteed to stay on and frustrate all unemployed tailors. Music will be supplied by the Chicago Pianos, Inc., and Mr. John Walker, local toastmaster, has been invited to attend. Local Psychiatrist's Union 314 has been supplied with all further particulars...