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...economics professor, Irving Fisher of Yale has produced a monograph to show that Prohibition at its worst is good. There is everything in the book from little sermons on the evils of alcohol to a concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium," and then he lays the doubter flat with 38 impressive charts charting the wonders the 18th Amendment has wrought. All evils...
...film rights so the only Shaw novel "Cashel Byro Profession." The mere offer would be sufficiently interesting, but the shrewd Mr. Lasky has even more delightful things in store. If he succeeds in obtaining the rights he intends and most appropriately to sign Mr. Glene Tunney to play the pugilist. No one could be better fitted for the role; like Shaw's hero Tunney has gained fame as the student heavy weight. What he does to Kant Hegel and the boys is according to his press agents no less than what he did at the Sesquicentennial. Give him a book...
Shaw might be accused of being mercenary if financial terms were the only ones for which he cared. But true artist that he is he has something to say about who shall mime his characters. Tunney would do very well, but there is in addition to a hero a villain. And the villain a the author has his way and this author usually does will be acted by the unfortunate Mr. Dempesey Shaw's kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight...
...Somerville, dynamic Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, with a high decisive voice and little hands, made his opening address. While he spoke, a giant telegraph switchboard with 120 "positions" distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...
Died. Harry Greb, 32, onetime (1923-26) world champion middle-weight boxer; sole man to defeat (1922) James John ("Gene") Tunney; at Atlantic City; of heart failure, following an operation on the nose...