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...interrupted?" shouted the Mayor. A policeman shouldering through the crowd to find the culprit tapped the elephantine shoulder of Columnist Heywood Broun, Guild President, who denied his guilt. But the Mayor noticed nothing. He was launched on his peroration. Thus last week, was the C., I. O. exorcised from Jersey City...
...origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When...
...lures a company of glinty-eyed weekenders to its shores with tales of buried treasure. Two murders are done, everybody suspects everybody else, while the audience keeps its eye on the shifty butler. Finally a character who might easily have been an innocent bystander is shot down as the culprit. A thriller with so pat a formula is usually expected to move posthaste off the Broadway boards, but with the guidance of respected Play-Picker George Francis Abbott, this one, blackouts, screams, rowdy humor and all, seems likely to remain for a time...
When dealing with youthful breakers of minor laws, a not uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text...
...urchin writes a love letter to the richest little girl in his class, who haughtily hands it in to teacher, who sends the culprit to the principal, whose amused understanding helps open the urchin's eyes...