Streetwise tricks bring a cheap con on the East Side
In a gritty vignette a brutal lesson unfolds as two older youths teach a naïve beginner a fake injury scam using ketchup and coal dust to lure sympathy from passersby. A benevolent bum exposes the fraud, while a parallel scene hints at wedding jitters and a Hollywood style parade of stars docking in New York.
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Lower East Side
New York
Hollywood
Europe
Elisa Maxwell
Elsa
One Lone Listener Ends Communist Rant in Union Square
On a September evening in Union Square a Communist speaker denounced wealth disparity to a single quiet listener. The crowd collapsed as the lone observer agreed with everything, prompting the speaker to abandon his talk and pack up.
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Union Square
Yebabl
Best Bets of the Week in Film and Books
A lively roundup notes Ginger Rogers in Fifth Avenue Girl and Bachelor Mother from Greg La Cava, praising Rogers as a top light comedian and highlighting These Glamour Girls with Lew Ayres and Lana Turner. It also covers The Star Maker with Bing Crosby, Authors in Paradise by Alan Griffiths, and a Western tale Ari Zona, plus a section on sports and a serialized love story excerpt.
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Ginger Rogers
Greg la Cava
Ginger
la Caya
Rogers
Star Maker
Bing Crosby
America
Lew Ayres
Lana Turner
Paradise
Alan Griffiths
Claranes Budington Kelland
Kiss That Binds A Prisoner To A Lifelong Love
A man serves a long sentence for love and redemption unfolds through a tearful kiss with Joan. He writes, waits, and finally walks free to a hopeful future, while she vows to wait and love him forever despite his crimes. The tale follows their bond from prison to reunion.
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Tom
Joan
Jove
Uinafreth
Notable Poets and Artists Dominate City Gossip
A rambling column surveys writers and artists in New York and beyond. It names Dashiell Hammett Oswald Spengler Walter Tree Bret Harte and Pietro al Donato among others, noting salons, mock cockails, and looming literary success as figures chase recognition.
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Jose Ytyrich
Dashiell Hammett
Soporifia i Oswald Spengler
Bon Arrez
New York
Jacksoe & Massaguer
Vincent Lopez
Lopes
Peter Larra
Perysonal
ReNamy Partridge
Pietro al Donato
Christ
Pietro
Petro
Donato
Albany
San Francisco
Eany
Bret Harte
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Miss Maxwell
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Marlene
Boyer
Girl
Norma Shearer
Jimmy Stewart
Merle Oberon
Gary Canper
Samuel Goldwyn
Tyrone Power
Annabella
Prince Michael Romanoff
Mademol
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Jacques Kaprasie
Seille X
Miss X
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France
M. HH
Mark Rellinger
Mary
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King
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Miss Ravenel
J. W. de Forest
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Sparta
Toomsay
Billy Conn
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Conn
Fred Apostolt
Defertno Garcia
Apostom
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Henry
Ambera
Ena
Sinclaum
Eopennant
Maever
Eddie
Cal Blade
Klas
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Louis Sobol
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Walter Tree
Pepey Bacon
Asher
Bree
Montrose Gallery
Ona Phttoan Phar
Dorothy Parker
Zane
Zane Greyaubymitted the Manuscript of the Cast of the Plainsmen To Hesper’s
Keith
Louly
Samuel Papys
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