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...Kaplan's rule over cinema theatres. He and 24 other officers of Local 306 are under criminal conspiracy indictments as the result of a rebellion by eight members who object to his methods. Local 306 has also been charged with operating the forbidden "permit system" whereby President Kap lan allows operators outside the union to work in return for 20% of their wages. His strongarm man, one Greenberg, has served a six-month jail sentence for as sault...
...reporting. As to current events, TIME competes only for the favor of those who are prepared to encounter any and all facts.-ED. Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent people, and I forbid your publication coming into my home. . . . TILTON S. BELL...
Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
...Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang made his U. S. debut...
...display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...