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...indulge in squabbles among themselves. The setting is usually on Long Island and the action rages at the cocktail hour when polo is the chief rival in discussion. This time, however, the children have completely lost their temper and the action has been transferred from pillared terraces to the dank halls of Rochester where the Convention gets underway tomorrow...
...President Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
...only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog. Death, pestilence, starvation and crime scurry unchecked through the dank rookeries of the Ghetto, Red Hook, Harlem and San Juan Hill. Slums have been a festering social problem for more than a century but Manhattan's death roster of the last few months has rubbed the public conscience raw. Pure economics always blocked slum-clearance, but in the open-handed...
...Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker, in love with a young suitor (Michael Bartlett) whom Osgood Perkins' surveillance has kept from meeting her, pretends to love Perkins. She sends...
...cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete crypt in the basement of a house he could not locate. Reported ransom: $10,000. Elsewhere the week's snatching wave lapped and lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped...