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Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
...Harvard lineup--Riechen, g; Witherspoon, pt; White, c. pt; Magurn, ld; Cushman, 2d; Campion, c; Scott, la; Hunsacker, 2a; Hammond, o.h; Wood, lh. Harvard Substitutes--Tonner, Dorman. Taliaferro, Sullivan, Blanchard, Baker, Hartstone, Shepard, Elrod, Downey, Cleveland. Referee--Dugan...
...coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes on his brass coaching horn without which no fashionable affair of this kind is complete. Mrs. Dibble twirled her whip, and the coach tooled gaily toward Fifth Avenue...
Night of January 16 (by Ayn Rand; A. H. Woods & Lee Shubert, producers) repeats the theatrical trick which, in The Trial of Mary Dugan, made Producer Woods a tidy fortune in 1927-28. A crime has been committed before the audience arrives, is thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named...
These questions and a number of others are answered by a novelty which goes The Trial of Mary Dugan one better. As each male spectator buys his ticket for Night of January 16, he is offered the chance of serving on the play's jury, receiving a fee of $3.* The jurors selected are marched up on the stage soon after the curtain rises, there sit in a box throughout the performance, return their verdict after retiring to the wings for a vote...