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...performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...
...days when popular ballads sang of little tots tugging their papas away from the saloon and home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas...
...back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting the case was smart, 26-year-old Lawyer Jacob Stagman, who is becoming somewhat of a specialist in Dram-Shops actions. He has had three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked during a crap game in a saloon when he persisted in kibitzing after a superstitious...
...mill musical comedy, Hollywood style. Its greatest virtues lie in the unusual amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated, concerns a couple of song writers busting the Hollywood fences, aided and abetted by Ginger; it is novel enough, and the whole is entertaining...
...which Dean Hanford proposes for the College and the aims which President Conant has set for the University. Many of Mr. Hanford's proposals will without question be put into effect. But any broad program to strengthen the hold of the tutorial system is bound to mean an added dram on the University treasury and an added burden on the faculty's most capable teachers. The President has other uses for the money and other plan for the faculty. He has chosen a way calculated to add to the prestige of the University, but not to further the development...