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...play is one of the type known as "problem plays", here representing the evils arising in a democratic republic when mass control passes into the hands of unscrupulous and private-minded individuals. Ably creating an illusion of reality as clever and unprincipled politicians, William Hale Thompson and John H. Lyle act the leading roles. A certain A. Capone is rumored to be the producer of this bit of modern satire, and Mr. Capone, it is said, has taken great care that every detail of the production shall be perfect...
...plot is woven about the figures of Thompson and Lyle, bitter political enemies, both of whom are trying to win political control of the city. As the last act closes, the victor is being congratulated by his opponent, and with a great prideful gesture he points to the national flags unfurled in his honor from every window. An irrepressible tear drops from his eye as his followers march to the ordered beat of machine gun fire over the dead bodies of the civil population. Unfortunately it is not yet known to which actor the role of victor has been assigned...
...sheer vituperation and ridicule Judge Lyle could hold his own against Mayor Thompson. Excerpt: "Chicago is a great and growing city. But what has Bill the Bluffer had to do with it? Like an African witch doctor he looks about, sees Chicago's skyscrapers, waves his arms and says, 'I did it all!' . . . An Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever...
...Thompson-Lyle contest stirred street crowds to a frenzy of partisanship. Respectable conservative citizens, mortified by such political horseplay and vilification, could find little to choose between the two Republican candidates-except that to Mayor Thompson must go chief credit for creating 20th Century Politics Chicago Style. Meanwhile, out of the spotlight and assured of the Democratic nomination for Mayor, waited Anton J. Cermak, holding his fire until the April election...
Born in Indiana 49 years ago, Judge John Homer Lyle got his political start on Sept. 17, 1930 when he issued a batch of warrants for the arrest on vagrancy charges of Chicago's worst "Public Enemies...