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...mayors" of Indianapolis were one Joseph Hogue and one Walter Myers. They contended that, by Mayor Duvall's conviction, his election in 1925 was voided. Joseph Hogue claimed office on the ground that he was City Comptroller in the administration of John L. Duvall's immediate predecessor, the late Lew Shank. Walter Myers claimed office because he ran second to John L. Duvall in the 1925 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Again, Indianapolis | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, they last week mourned the sudden death from heart failure of Samuel Lewis ("Lew") Shank, 55, farm boy, clog dancer, vaudeville trouper, auctioneer and twice mayor of Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Death of Shank | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Demi-Bride (Norma Shearer). Criquette (Norma Shearer), convent-bred maid of Paris, glimpses one Phillippe (Lew Cody), making his ardent way to another woman's heart in the park nearby. This is the man for Criquette. Though he is her stepmother's lover, though he looks upon her as a creature of the nursery, she persists in wooing him. By inveigling, him into a compromising situation, she succeeds in forcing him to marry her. As she walks down the aisle of the church, the unhappy groom notices that his bride by compulsion is quite a beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Married. Lew Cody, 39, (real name Louis Cote), cinema actor; to Mabel Normand, 28, cinema actress, suddenly† by the county recorder at Ventura, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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