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Romatic's Return MARS IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH- Rex Ingram-Knopf...
Once upon a time-as who over 21 doesn't remember?-there was a movie director named Rex Ingram. A very romantic director he was. Himself as handsome as a movie star, he was born in Dublin, had been a New Haven dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, protege of famed Sculptor Lee Lawrie, ex-War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. And he turned out such successes as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name was linked so closely with Sabatini, Ibanez, Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro that...
Last week Attorney General Earl Warren of California, an ambitious Republican in a Democratic regime, personally directed a raid against the gambling flotilla. Police launches visited and closed Texas, Showboat and Tango. But when Mr. Warren's men sought to board the Rex, they had to deal with Tony Stralla and his skipper, George Kirkham, a retired Navy officer...
...good night aboard the Rex; 600 patrons were tossing in their chips. As Attorney General Warren's boarding party approached, huge nets were flung overside on the Rex. "Stand off!" bellowed Stralla through a megaphone. "We're on the high seas...
...Warren's men grabbed at the netting to clamber to the Rex's rail. Stralla's seamen met them with a blast from the Rex's fire hose. The Warren party fished out their men, returned to shore, where a stronger squadron was organized, including ships of the Coast Guard and Fish & Game Commission. The 600 patrons were returned to shore during a truce, at dawn, and then the Warren fleet anchored or cruised around the Rex, promising to starve its commander & crew into submission...