Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffered," she expressed ''suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained the supposedly palpable fake. So crowded is the New York County's Supreme Court calendar that a final, legal answer to this Macfadden muddle may not be handed down for two years or more...
...part of Stringer is kept on the jump by Ramon Greenleaf, but gains nothing beyond its writing in his performance. An admirable sketch is supplied by Arthur Barry in the part of Bittlesby, who switches from effeminate efficiency to an entertaining attitude of merrily-we-go-to-hell-the-fake-is-falling-through, singing and dancing to "The Darng Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" en route. In the end, of course, the fake does not fall through. Bittlesby is gotten by stenographer who will teach him things, and Stringer gets the girl (Louise Kirtland)--and there, gentlemen...
...Muench taken in 1919 when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning a fake jewelry store holdup. News photographers dogged her footsteps, snapped her picture as she swore lustily at them. Once she carried a bag of flour which she sprinkled in the air to fog their pictures. She provided more copy by accusing her neighbors of spying on her and swearing at them...
...District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last week State Superintendent of Insurance Louis Pink recommended a 7% reduction in liability rates. Simultaneously in Chicago was uncovered the most vicious and successful ambulance-chasing racket exposed to date...
...hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig falls in love with him. When the assistant arranges to have a fake Czech count (Mischa Auer) pose as a millionaire decoy for Precious, a genuine English lord (Ray Milland) takes his place by accident, begins a romance with Kay Craig. It devolves on Penny to administer the knockout punch to her father's mesalliance almost at the altar. She does...