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Love is a Racket (First National) shows Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a likable young journalist, attempting to make friends with a young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely...
...Last week Sheriff-eject Farley became tsar of New York City's racket-infested cleaning & dyeing industry. Salary: $50,000 a year...
...month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket to swell the family income by means of the clerk-hire allowance...
...time that someone called attention to the "racket" that has been going on in the University for a number of years:--the Maintenance Department's "repair racket...
...their match. Wright was playing over his head but still there was no question left about the condition of Vines's game. It lacked the crispness that distinguished it last year. Wright, a graceful player, was very steady. Vines played with blinding speed but little accuracy, broke a racket on a smash but barely...