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...older fans could still recall the heyday of the old big-league Orioles, who won three straight pennants-1894-96-and boasted such baseball immortals as Third Baseman John ("Muggsy") McGraw, Shortstop Hughie Jennings, Catcher Wilbert Robinson and Outfielder Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler. Baltimore's return to the big leagues, it appeared, would have to wait a while...
...horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita Grey Chaplin and Ruby Keeler...
...Smith & Co. were soon involved in an uproar that kept the waterfront echoing like a shooting gallery. "One morning, myself, George Keeler and John Harvey and Thomas Porter were cruising up the waterfront. We spied a truck that was loaded with furs. Keeler wanted to go and speak to the driver there. 'He must have something good there, and I can get him to give it to us.' . . . He comes back and he says, 'There's a load of furs worth $100,000 . . . and he's going to give us the truck.' [But] while...
...Well, Keeler knew where one of the men lived. That's Sonny Campbell. [So] one morning we stuck him up, and we wanted to know where the furs were. [But] the man didn't know." Campbell, it turned out, had already tipped off the Jersey waterfront mob under "Charlie the Jew" Yanowski (since ice-picked to death), and Charlie had highjacked the furs from the original highjackers. Despite their prior claim, Smith & Co. formally agreed to let the Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them...
...Murray Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). A salute to the movie industry. Guests: Ruby Keeler, Buster Keaton, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, John Wayne, Harold Lloyd, Francis X. Bushman...