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When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
...Jumel, flaunts her jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...almost 20,000. Last week the State Game Commission opened a five-day pronghorn hunting season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex but permitting the use of telescope sights on guns. Reason: too plentiful to please farmers, too tame for their own good, many pronghorns have broken bounds, roam nearby ranches at night to steal food...
Dark Rapture (Denis-Roosevelt). If there is anything more painfully familiar to followers of travel cinema than the spectacle of a group of African natives dressed in last week's laundry and chewing old twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other...
...Crimson team goes into the game with every man on the Varsity "red-shirt" squad in top shape, and Harlow has declared that he will dress several "white-shirts" also. Among the "whites" who stand good chances of going out to tame the Bears are Joe Gardella, third-string bucker, and Gene Levett, second left...