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...lookout for underworld arrivals. But the week ran out with no progress reported, the killer still at large. From the very nature of Reporter Lingle's work, his wide knowledge of underworld activities, it was difficult to guess who might have avenged a grudge by a gunshot. Lingle had a room in the Hotel Stevens where he lived regularly. Occasionally he spent a night with his family in the suburbs. To the hotel room had gone many and many a caller in recent weeks-impossible to single out one character more suspicious than the other. Friends said...
...Atlanta five years ago Glenn Karmer, Negro, changed his name to Glenn Brokenheart, after surgeons had mended a gunshot wound in his heart. The other day Glenn Brokenheart was again shot through the heart, irreparably...
...Royal Hotel. Several people seemed interested in doing away with Hero Harold Stromberg when suddenly comes the report of a revolver. Next scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg expires after exhorting his minions to "treat...
...song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...From Stroudsburg, Pa., Dr. George S. Travis, 50, motored late at night through heavy snow to a gunshot-wounded patient. The car stalled a mile from the patient's house. Dr. Travis proceeded afoot. Sleepy, cold, exhausted, he tottered into a snow bed, died...