Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert Apollo--Black Crook. 8.15 o'clock...
...well-to-do," writes Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko- liberal Nation, "contented and privileged, Older is an anathema. They not only hate, fear and distrust him, they honor him by their disbelief in his sincerity and honesty. To them 'the friend of crooks' is as good as a crook himself. . . . But his friends see in Fremont Older a journalistic knight-errant of superb power, who can never be made to know that he is beaten when it comes to a straight-put fight...
...training camp, Señor Victorio Maria Campolo, towering Argentine heavyweight fighter (TIME, June 24) tried desperately, ineffectually, to scowl, to glower, to crook his smile into a sneer, jibing onlookers, unconvinced of his ferocity, were told: "You should see him bulldog, skin and dress a steer for barbecue in nine minutes...
Died. Chicago May (Mrs. May Churchill Sharpe), 52, reformed international crook; on the eve of marriage to her oldtime comrade "Charlie Smith" (Robert Considine); in a Philadelphia hospital...
Loew's Orpheum--"Alibi". A thoroughly good crook melodrama...