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...rapid succession, lively, gracious Fred & Adele Astaire (Funny Face, Smiles) entertain with dancing to an accordion played by Brother Fred; a tasteful tune, "High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely funny man Philip Loeb (Garrick Gaieties, June Moon...
...upper west side flat two young criminals had been cornered with the aid of tips by one of their girl friends and a taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...York City, still mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily...
...Bronx, N. Y., a woman rushed up to a taxi driver, cried: "See that funny-looking woman . . . she's been following me!" The taxi driver grabbed the woman, found her to be one Joseph Coquelin, 46, manhandled him brutally. Arraigned in court, garbed in a tasty rose gown, cloche hat, high-heeled shoes, Joseph Coquelin said: "I have asthma, and feminine attire makes it more comfortable to breathe on my nightly walks." Father of two, Joseph Coquelin was jailed...
...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...