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Kelly. Year and a half ago an unconscionable assassin deprived Chicago of its Democratic Mayor Anton Cermak. Chicago's two Democratic Bosses, Septuagenarian Patrick A. Nash, and State's Attorney Thomas Courtney, picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTIES: Machines | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Small Miracle (by Norman Krasna; Courtney Burr, producer) attempts, with considerable success, to make a Grand Hotel of the lounge in a Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...turn out an average of four new songs a week Procter & Gamble (Ivory Soap) hired Composer Arthur Schwartz and Lyricist Howard Dietz at an estimated weekly salary of $1,250 each. Book for the show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Musicomedy | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Cambridge High Crawley, ss 5 3 1 1 1 Rooney, 3b 4 0 0 0 0 McMahon, 2b 3 0 2 3 0 Galluccio, c 5 2 9 0 0 Bourges, lf 4 1 0 0 0 Guerrl, cf 5 0 5 0 0 Courtney, rf 1 0 0 0 0 Corcoran, lf 5 1 8 0 1 Connors, p 2 2 1 1 0 Frisoli, 3b 1 0 0 0 0 Anderson, rf 4 3 1 0 0 Riley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN NINE DOWNS ST. MARK'S TEAM 26-2 IN HARD HITTING GAME | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

Died. Charles Courtney Julian, oil promoter, wanted in Oklahoma City on a charge of defrauding investors of $3,500,000; by his own hand (poison); in Shanghai. Canadian-born Promoter Julian won & lost a real estate fortune in California where later he formed Julian Petroleum Corp., a $40,000,000 producing and marketing organization. He left it shortly before it collapsed, formed a similar company in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma courts investigated him, he jumped a $25,000 bail bond, exiled himself in China where he died penniless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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