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...Over Frisco (First National). By the time a newshawk and a cameraman discover the body in a rumble seat, enough has happened in this picture to suggest many a motive for murder. Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a moody socialite, addicted to thievery for fun. Daughter of a banker (Arthur Byron) whom she dislikes, she consorts with underworldlings, gets her name in gossip columns, disposes of stolen bonds through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious...
...they've just ratified your treaty -all in ten minutes," replied the newshawk. Dr. Sterling gaped incredulously...
Such a conversation took place one night last week between a Baltimore newshawk and Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore. Next day Archbishop Curley was to pontificate at a solemn military field mass in Baltimore Stadium, in commemoration of triple anniversaries-the 300th of the founding of Maryland and the first Catholic mass on Maryland soil, the 100th of the birth of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the 20th of Archbishop Curley's consecration as bishop. With good weather, 100,000 pious folk might be present to fill the stadium as it never had been filled...
...like a benevolent John Bull, Percy Bullen was the dean of British correspondents in the U. S. In 30 years he produced some 11,000,000 words of copy-"more," he proudly observes, "than in the Encyclopedia Britannica." His professional routine was more pleasant than that of the average newshawk. His office was above his apartment in a penthouse a few doors off lower Fifth Avenue. There every morning he would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington for a White House press conference...
Before leaving for Manhattan last week Claude Boettcher told a newshawk that he expected to be elected chairman of American Beet this week. Outstanding among Denver's first financial families, the Boettchers are reported to be one of the three biggest owners of Great Western stock. Last week Denver brokers were predicting that the Boettcher clan would like nothing better than to merge all Midwest sugar companies under their control...