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...Policeman O'Roon," bases its claim for attention on the physical vigor, imperviousness to hard falls, and mobile face of Beatrice Lillie. The action spirals about the efforts of Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Miss Lillie) and Bill Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions...
...turned out that the man of '28 is an enterprising gambler. He bet a Yale boy $5 on every single event between John H. and Eli Y. To collect, clippings must be produced. Things were going along about even until the other night he chanced to run into his enemy's wife at dinner. She proceeded to produce six items telling the sad tale of six recent Harvard defeats in various forms of competition...
These staggering activities are today administered by Aubrey Williams, onetime social worker, whose salary is $9,500 a year. Relief Chief Harry Hopkins, who gets $12,000 a year, is conservative with the public's money, an inveterate gambler with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...
...following article was written for the Crimson by Robert T. S. Lowell, an undergraduate here for two years, who transferred this year to Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio. It is being published under a policy of presenting articles which concern University affairs...
...later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening of $40. Next day he paid $20,000 for a flower-shaped emerald...