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...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
Died. Daisy Canfield Danziger Moreno, 45, California oil heiress, estranged wife of Film Actor Antonio Moreno: of injuries when her automobile ran over the edge of a cliff as her companion, one René Dussac, tried to brighten the headlights in a fog, turned them out instead; on Mulholland Highway, Hollywood...
...which rushed to pick up the Atlantique's survivors as they leaped from her flame-swept decks. Cremated alive below decks were five members of the crew whose panic screams were all but drowned by the blast-furnace roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited junior officer later. "Then suddenly he appeared out of the flames with burning clothes, his Annamite boy following him like a shadow with a bucket...
...Late Christopher Bean (by René Fauchois; Gilbert Miller, producer). Playwright Sidney Howard has drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde à la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived...
...women's singles championship, when Helen Wills Moody is playing in it, follows a set pattern. When Helen Jacobs is playing in it also, the pattern is usually symmetrical. At Wimbledon last week, on the side of the draw that contained Betty Nuthall and Mme René Mathieu, Helen Jacobs in the semi-finals met the French champion who had beaten Betty Nuthall the day before. She won her match, 7-5, 6-1. Suzanne Lenglen who had just flown over from Paris and who said she planned to play exhibition tennis this summer, watched Mrs. Moody...