Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despot was to be seized while on his way to the National Theatre in Lima by a determined gang of radicals. Once in their power, the President was to have been forced to abdicate...
Everything worked out according to plan. President Leguia left the Presidential abode and was on his way to the theatre. Unfortunately for the radicals and fortunately for the President, he had taken care to surround himself with secret service men. The leader of the gang unaccountably developed a fever and fell from his horse -a demoralizing blow which knocked all the courage out of his followers...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
...gunmen who held up C. H. Wiggin 2G.B. and A. F. Head 1G.B. on Oxford Street last Saturday night have been caught and are now being held until they are positively identified by the students as their assailants. They are believed by the police to be part of a gang of bandits that are responsible for many recent daring robberies in this vicinity. Three others are now in custody and are being held for the murder of a policeman Sunday in Hyde Park, and also for holding up the Mt. Auburn Garage. They were traced because the revolver, which...
...Crooked Square. Herein we find the inaugural attempt of the dramatic year to prove that a young and comely maiden from the country stands no chance on Broadway. At least for two acts such is the burden of the action. Finally the maiden accomplishes the obvious, tricks a gang of society crooks, emerges triumphant on the arm of the affable young hero. Edna Hibbard is the girl; Kenneth McKenna the boy. Both are normally attractive...