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...sooner was the first performance over than authorities, who, from reading the late Jack Conway's review in Variety, had gauged the substance of the play, appeared with their cohorts and dragged all the female impersonators and the few remaining members of the cast to a nearby jail. This, it was supposed, would end the silly business; but counsel for Mae West secured an injunction which allowed the performance to be given twice more before it was attacked again. The second arrests were more complete; even Author Mae West was indicted for disorderly conduct and the play...
Died. John White ("Con") Conway, 42, dramatic critic of Variety, famed Manhattan theatrical trade weekly, inventor of many Broadway colloquialisms ("clicked," "pushover," "palooka"); from a heart attack, near Hamilton, Bermuda...
...important to internal medicine as insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas...
...Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good looks, Theodosia's beauty, all the delights of remembered being. . . . Albert would come heavily into the parlor although his feet were agile and his large frame was light...
Died. Pauline Welch, 34, onetime (1912-17) wife of Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher, famed cartoonist ("Mutt & Jeff"); in Baltimore; of pneumonia...