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Fatal Mistake. As portrayed by most singers, Lulu has the morals of an alley cat and the tastes of the Marquis de Sade: in three acts she destroys three husbands before making the fatal mistake of picking up Jack the Ripper on a London street. Coloratura Carroll saw Lulu differently-as a kind of child of nature whose body enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages...
...details into the bargain. Crippen, perhaps England's best-known wife murderer, was born in Michigan; Captain Kidd, most famous of pirates, probably was not a pirate at all but a legitimate privateer who got a bum rap from a British court. While the never-caught Jack the Ripper was terrifying London, Queen Victoria sent the Home Secretary directions as to how to catch him. Ruth Snyder, during her trial, received 164 proposals of marriage; Fatty Arbuckle weighed 16½ Ibs. at birth...
...Hercules, an Italian-made potboiler. He bought the U.S. rights for $120,000 and promoted the film with well over $1,000,000; it took in $18 million at the box office. Levine has more or less repeated the pattern with such films as Jack the Ripper and Hercules Unchained...
Promised Purge. New York's Democratic Party has been torn asunder since the state convention of 1958. Principal ripper was National Committeeman Carmine Gerard De Sapio, the dark-spectacled Tammany Hall sachem who outraged most fellow Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate race, New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. After Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done...
Died. Rudolph Charles von Ripper, 55, Austrian-born artist best known for his savage, Goyaesque, anti-Nazi etchings of the 1930s. and courageous soldier of fortune who was wounded many times while serving in the French Foreign Legion, Spanish Loyalist air force. U.S. Army and the OSS; of a heart attack; in Pol-lensa, Majorca...