Word: fake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STREET SCENE-every door in a tenement opens on drama (Pulitzer Prizewinner). JOURNEY'S END-those well-bred Englishmen are still at war. IT'S A WISE CHILD - funny complications caused by a fake pregnancy. CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-splendid drama (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros), splendidly acted at top price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE-the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON-magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner...
...them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary...
...most ghostbusters is to expose the tricks performed by fake spirit mediums. Last week Ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger went a step farther. At a seance in the Manhattan offices of Science and Invention, in broad daylight, before 20 perplexed witnesses, he showed a number of "mystical" phenomena which fakers have not yet discovered...
...before his death he arranged to buy it for 350,000 francs. After he died, the bank handling the Dreicer estate engaged Sir Joseph Duveen to pass judgment on the authenticity of the statuette, for which 100,000 francs had already been paid. Sir Joseph called it a modern fake, and the bank promptly refused further payments. Mr. Demotte brought suit. Sir Joseph insisted that he had libeled no one, but had merely expressed a solicited opinion. Mr. Demotte's death kept the affair from the courts...