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...Died. Dion O'Bannion, 32, hierarch of crooks, gangsters, gunmen, shot by three unidentified young men in his flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services...
Hopedale.--g., Bromley; l.f.b., Kratch; r.f.b., Tabron; l.h.b., Wilson; c.h.b., Tailon; r.h.b., Walker; l.o.f., Smith; l.i.f., J. Dion; c.f., Taylor; r.i.f., Dunnigan; r.o.f., Tetlow...
...Hayes, Mr. Hart, Mr. W. S. Burke and Mr. J. B. Williams, and the following are playing in Dion Boucicault's "The Shaughraun," which is being given by the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club: S. Bell 2L., H. T. Nichols 1L., H. K. Brent '98, C. P. Adams '99, G. K. Denny '99, and R. H. Dana...
...Dion Boucicault and Cibber were both not only playwrights, but also actors and managers. This two-fold capacity was to each a hindrance as well as a help It helped them in adapting their ideas to the needs of the stage, but at the same time it tended to produce artificiality. The beginning of Boucicault's dramatic work was practically in "London Assurance," which appeared about 1840. It was criticised as "a mere imitation of Sheridan," but Sheridan in his turn was indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps...
HOLLIS STREET THEATRE.- Dion Boucicault in "The Shaughraun...