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...Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied by the tramp, the Irishman and the Jew remained about the same. But as additional burlesque houses opened all over town, desperate competition was expressed in the increasing nudity of the dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month the New Gotham Theatre in Harlem reached the inevitable when four of its strippers were said...
...Irishman, Mr. Thompson had taken out only his first U. S. naturalization papers...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...TIME, Nov. 27, 1933) which indicated that his Joycean counterpart was merely a portrait of the doctor as a young man; this week he published a work long in progress that showed him an unmistakably three-dimensional figure, as live as a high-tension line, as individual as an Irishman...
...final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President got the Solicitor General to rule that it would not, if the stock were, sold. The 48-year-old Irishman gave in, took the job on condition that he may quit as soon as it is running smoothly...