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...British-officered South Persia Rifles to disband. With a newly-created army of 40,000 men, commanded in person by the then Reza Khan, supplied with secondhand rifles, machine guns, tanks, Iran first dealt with her own warring, rebellious Kurds, Kashgais and Bakhtiaris, then began shaking a determined fist at Great Britain...
Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining picture. A tale of the Chicago in the roaring seventies, it is generously sprinkled with songs by the delectable Alice Faye and fist fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power; and with the great fire as a brilliant climax, Hollywood's latest excursion into the realm of spectacular catastrophe proves a great success...
Some 10,000 Britons, led, according to dispatches by British Communists, rioted in Trafalgar Square last week on account of the Austrian crisis (see p. 19), swept over to the nearby German Embassy singing the Communist Internationale and there engaged London bobbies in one of the bloodiest fist fights ever staged. It was estimated that the crowd grew at last to 20,000, shouting "Chamberlain must go!" and "Ribbentrop get out!", yet this mob was expertly "handled" by only 800 police. Noses streamed and eyes were blacked, but British Democracy triumphed in the complete absence of firearms...
...School. He is a hulking man of 36 with wide, intolerant brown eyes, childish brown hair and a hint of mustache. A strong draftsman with a rough sense of pictorial humor, Artist Evergood has been getting stronger and rougher right along. Last year his Art on the Beach caused fist fights in Australia where it was shown in an Evergood exhibition. Later it was purchased by Melbourne's National Gallery...
...addition to his college fist-flinging, he ventured into bigger circles, for in 1925 he was National Junior Champion in the 175-pound class, and in the same year was National Champion in the 175-pound class. Also in '25, he won the title of Pan American Champion. In 1926, he was again National Champion...