Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening night the jury seemed to have been packed by an astute pressagent. A verdict of "Not Guilty" was returned by twelve good men & true including Jack Dempsey, Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden and Edward J. Reilly, the Brooklyn lawyer who failed to get Richard Bruno Hauptmann acquitted. In the play's first week, less celebrated jurors convicted beauteous Actress Nolan only once. Author Rand is prepared for either decision. If the defendant is acquitted, the judge berates the jury for a bad decision. If she is convicted, defense asks for a new trial, the judge grants...
...Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while the S. S. Rex sped into New York harbor bearing Monsignor Diego Venini, private chamberlain to the Pope, and Monsignor Carlo Grano, papal master of ceremonies, who proceeded to Cardinal Hayes's grey stone house on Madison Avenue behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. There they solemnly handed him his credentials as a Papal Legate. Next evening assembled the rest of the Cardinal's entourage?Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, his portly vicar general; Monsignor John J. Casey, his affable private secretary; and two Chamberlains of the Cape & Sword, Gerald Borden...
...body or things, orthodox synagogs have done without art for thousands of years. On view in Chicago this week were the first strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema? for the opening of the high holy...
...play is an absorbing mystery drama with a strong vein of humor. The quiet Boston Post Road home for tourists operated by Emily Madison(Miss Young) is whipped onto a whirlwind of activity by the precipitate arrival of a doctor, a nurse and a girl apparently on the verge of maternity. The doctor takes charge of the household explaining that the girl is a member of a prominent family and that the affair must be carried off with complete secrecy. Things go smoothly until a few days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping...
...West Point graduate who first met the Garden's late famed Tex Rickard in the Argentine, persuaded him to install hockey at Madison Square Garden in 1925, John S. Hammond was ousted from the Garden's vice-presidency in 1932, bought control in 1934, had himself made board chairman. His principal interest remains hockey, not prizefights. A one-time All-America Yale footballer who enlisted in the Army in 1916, got the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been...