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...Ludwig crashed the Stalin gate by rushing to Moscow as the representative of Germany's most potent daily, the Berliner Tageblatt. Shrewdly Tageblatt had raised a rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
...Sister (Fox) had a good director, Alfred Santell (Daddy Long Legs); a brilliant dialogist, Edwin Burke (Bad Girl) ; two able principals, Linda Watkins, recruit from the Manhattan stage who caused a rumpus among Hollywood press-agents when she failed to be elected a "Wampas Baby Star of 1931," and James Dunn, who gave a fine performance in Bad Girl. All of which makes it disappointing that Sob Sister emerges as a routine, though fairly lively, drama dedicated to the stale proposition that newshawks are animated by semi-religious loyalty to their employers...
...bravado gone, Gangster Diamond faced a maximum sentence of four years, a fine of $11,000. Presiding at his trial was U. S. Judge Richard Joseph Hopkins of Kansas, the militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
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...Little Rock, Ark., in a hotel H. G. Lansdale of Atlanta, Ark. telephoned the desk clerk, complained that W. U. McCabe. Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room. Said H. G. Lansdale: "If you don't stop that rumpus I will." Forthwith he stomped into the room, shot and critically wounded Legislator McCabe...