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...skoits. Chinamen burn while Chuck Connors' mob fights Steve Brodie's gang for possession of the fire hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...
...Pope first appears blessing a throng at the Vatican upon his election in 1922. In later shots he seems more mellow, friendly, self-assured. He receives Boy Scouts in his favorite spot in the Vatican Gardens, the garish reproduction of the Grotto of Lourdes. The King & Queen of Italy visit him; black missionaries kiss his finger. The Pope speaks once, in his soft, old-man's voice, at the opening of his radio station...
...their children play. Some of the youngsters scampered half-naked about the street, others were swimming in the river or lolling on the shore in front of a grimy brick factory where Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Co. sorted celluloid. Along River Road. Mrs. Josephine Latone pushed her way through the throng of noisy youngsters, nodding to her neighbors, jabbering at her husband, James. She turned toward him to gesticulate...
Chicago's Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another throng that trooped to the lakefront for a party at which Banker Dawes's sister-in-law officiated. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes broke a bottle of milk over the Magic Mountain on the Enchanted Island for children, formally opening this section of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...