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Acting in the title role, a part created in the U. S. by John Barrymore in 1917, is Dennis (Vagabond) King. Not a few of King's henchmen will be pleased and surprised at his performance in this, his first nonsinging dramatic role in six years. No longer a roaring Villon. Mr. King, in an auburn wig, makes a convincingly demure and sensitive Ibbetson. Jessie Royce Landis is adequate as the kind-hearted Duchess of Towers. Valerie Taylor's Mrs. Deane is astonishingly ill-motivated for such a capable actress...
...police raid on City Hall opened the final heated week of the Thompson-Cermak campaign. Detectives from the State's Attorney's office seized records of the City Sealer, charged Thompson henchmen with an "organized system of cheating, shortweighing and shakedown" among Chicago fish dealers. Roared the Mayor: "A plot! A plot...
...fifth such legislative inquiry to be authorized since 1890, and the passage of the resolution marked the end of a political duel between William Kingsland Macy, G. O. P. State Chairman, and William L. Ward, longtime boss of Westchester County's Republicanism. For months Mr. Ward & henchmen had balked the inquiry, presumably because of a neighborly feeling for New York City's Democracy. Mr. Ward's capitulation, apparently under pressure from Washington, makes Mr. Macy undisputed G. O. P. chieftain in New York State...
...nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1) the straw-polling journals (the Tribune and Daily News) were noisily campaigning for Nominee Cermak; 2) Thompson henchmen would not fool with ballots that did not count; 3) the city's "best people" now supporting Nominee Cermak might go golfing on Election...
...Cohen, onetime burglar, and John A. Radeloff, the dead woman's Brooklyn attorney. These two were held in $50,000 bail following a disclosure in her diary: "I fear only one man and he is Radeloff . . . who, if he wanted, could get Cohen and a couple of his henchmen to do away with...