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...Alexander II; to Princess Olga Mossalkaka, 17, granddaughter of the late Col. Peter Mossalkaka of the Imperial Russian Army; in Washington, D. C. Also married last week was Princess Olga's mother, Princess Vera Pleschkova-Mossalkaka, 34, to Alexander S. Georgiades, onetime of Arcadia, Greece, now a Washington florist...
Underworld. In the smelly, slinky alleyways of the Chicago tenderloin, the all-round criminal championship is held by "Bull" Weed (George Bancroft), hulking thug, notable for his wide-open laugh & easy-going gun. Only Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler), who operates a florist's shop in the daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning...
...west side with headquarters in Cicero where famed "Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street at the door of a florist's shop . . . the funeral of Dion O'Banion, with $30,000 worth of flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side by side . . . "Scarface Al" Caponi sitting quietly in the restaurant of his Cicero hotel with machine gun bullets whistling all around him. . . . As King Caponi once said...
...representative of Galvin Inc., the official florist will be at Memorial Hall throughout the day to take orders for corsages and individual box decorations. The Committee also announces that no furniture whatsoever may be brought into the boxes...
...Florist. The gatherer of this spiritual bouquet to Pope Pius XI and so to the Catholic Church which is the Bride of Christ, is His Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein...