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Offshore from Santa Monica and Long Beach certain long, low rods of red light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might...
...Rex was owned and run by Anthony ("Tony") Cornero Stralla, 47, California's paramount rumrunner in Prohibition days.* Short and stocky, square shooting by his own code, Tony is well-known around Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, where he lives in a modest bungalow. He loves high-stake gambling himself, against big shots like Nick the Greek or syndicates of movie tycoons who set out to "take...
Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...School for Husbands" is one of those witty, urbane, and inconsequential comedies that the English do so well. With a story that might have come out of the "Decameron", and a capable cast headed by Rex Harrison, Director Swanson has blended a screen cocktail that is pleasantly aphrodisiacal (in a nice way, of course...
...Thursday, the 8th of June, 1939. The British Ambassador's wife rose at 6 a. m. all last week to do the tough job of picking 1,300 names (900 in Washington, 400 throughout the land) to receive invitations thus worded under the seal & cipher of George Rex and Elizabeth. Her great name-choosing task ended, Lady Lindsay consented at last to receive the press and explain how her guests must behave...