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...took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter of a big U. S. moneyman if her father will lend...
...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...
...geographical "Armies," consisting of regular and national guard units. Each year one of these armies was to be assembled for maneuvers. Last week the first of these annual maneuvers opened at Pine Camp, near Watertown, N. Y., where five divisions of the First Army under Major General Dennis E. Nolan assembled for training and mock battle...
...General Nolan's job was to give his 36,000 men a practical lesson in war. The best of maneuvers is only a pale shadow of war and the lack of parallelism was abundantly apparent last week. Most important order issued was that none of the troops was to bring any real ammunition to the games lest somebody be shot. Each day special blank cartridges were issued: ten rounds per rifle, 100 rounds per machine gun, four rounds per field piece. Even for that modest schedule half a million rounds of ammunition were required...
Most fun were the sham battles which General Nolan directed. That officer occupied the unique post of chief umpire and commander of both sides, to whom he gave general orders leaving the tactics of their execution to the commanders in the field. Officers of every company had strict orders to tell all men under their command exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight...