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Sadly you did cry and patted poor fido...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...
...wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes is seen being whisked down Mount Auburn Street in a high-powered car which the police are unable to trace. These academic...
...Jack, Fido, and Tip, illfated three...
...story, as last week resurrected by American Kennel Gazette: On the stormy night of March 9, 1891, Jack, Fido and Tip heard three safecrackers chiseling into the brick-wall of the car barn that then held the safe of the defunct Haight Street Cable Car line. They barked, vigorously attacked first the chiselers, then the poisoned meat which the chiselers threw them. A wary nightwatchman, barked to attention, emptied a pistol at the poisoners, saved the safe, could not save faithful, greedy Jack, Fido...