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Gently boastful though these advertisements were, yet they revealed a quaint modesty. They might well have told of the eleventh Burlington-trained railroad president. He is Hale Holden, 57, president of the Burlington itself...
...William Hale Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago, famed for his horn-blowing parties at Riverview (Chicago's Coney Island), told the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," explained how to use bunko parties to raise campaign money...
...with mighty names?" They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there yet). Good Chicagoans pointed with pride to him when he carried a Democrat, William E. Dever, into the City Hall in 1922 over the wreckage of the grimy William Hale Thompson machine. Mayor Dever's record is "Boss" Brennan's most flourishing gesture. But he insists that politics is merely his avocation, along with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics is a sideline, a recreation. I make my living in business and have...
...Woman. You can always count on the South Seas. You can count on them for about three plays a season in which the hale and handsome hero takes to drink and marries the forgiving and handsome heroine just at curtain fall. To help this one out there is volcanic eruption rivaled only by the passionate eruptions of the manuscript. The acting is all right...
...Rainmaker (William Collier Jr., Georgia Hale, Ernest Torrence). Behind this attractive title blooms only a fair film. It is a story of a jockey-called the rainmaker because he was a weather prophet-a onetime girl of the dance halls, and the old toothpick chewer who owns the dance hall. The toothpick chewer loses the girl to the jockey. Pounded in to stir the nerves are an epidemic, a fire and, naturally, a heavy flood of rain...