Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breaking the Ice (RKO Radio). Soprano yodelings by nebby Bobby Breen and fancy skating by five-year-old Irene Dare accompany a mildly funny comedy about Pennsylvania Mennonites...
...star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery has just been off on the wrong...
...bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope Dare (real name: Rose...
...shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...
...connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York Herald Tribune headlined: DEWEY'S OFFICE DOES NOT DENY DAVIS SEES GIRL. Most obvious explanation was that...