Peggy Ann opens at Warren Library Theatre tonight
The Warren Library Theatre lights dim for the first weekday since preparations began for Peggy Ann, a musical by Fields Rodgers and Hart. Clarice Anderson leads the cast as the show draws from the Garrick Gaieties tradition, promising imagination over spectacle. George Sidney stars in We Americans at Columbia, a stirring Universal feature about immigration and Americanization, with a strong all star supporting cast.
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Clarice Anderson
Warren
Peggy-Ann
Herbert Fields
Richard Rodgers
Lorenz Hart
Theatre Guild
Garrick
Columbia
George Sidney
Universal
Columbia Theatre
New York
Just Sidney
Old Bowery
Douglas Fairbanks
Louise Dresser
Patsy Ruth Miller
George Lewis
Eddie Phillips
Berg Merver
John Boles
Albert Gran
Daisy Belmore
Kathryn Williams
Edward Martindel
Josephine Dunn
Edward Sloman
500 Arrests in Chicago Raids Across Gambling and Bootlegging
Chicago reports 500 arrests after police raids ordered by Commissioner William Russell. Evidence and confessions linked many robberies and crimes. Charles Stanley, 26, implicated in two murders and the wounding of two officers, with robbery totals and gang ties uncovered. Stanley named an associate known as Big Leo who allegedly shot officers in a West Side cafe last Thursday.
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Chicago
William Russel
Charles Stanley
John Stege
Stanley
Big Leo
Allen Carroll
John Fogarty
West Side
Motorman killed by street car in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Kelly Kirkland a street car motorman was crushed to death when he stepped from his car to replace the trolley on the wire and a following car failed to stop. The accident occurred today and authorities investigate the scene.
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Pittsburgh
Kelly Kirkland
Kirkland
Style Creator Signs Contract With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Gilbert Adrian, famed style creator, signs a long term deal with M G M to design costumes for upcoming sound productions. He will also assist in staging reviews and spectacle sequences and is currently designing gowns for Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs directed by Clarence Brown.
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Gilbert Adrian
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
West Coast
Adrian
George White
Music Box
Greenwich Village
Grebo Garbo
Michael Arlen
Miss Garbo
John Gilbert
Clarence Brown
Hundreds Arrested in Espionage Plot in Poland
WarSAW September 24. Several hundred people are under arrest over an alleged espionage network of White Russians. The group is said to span East Poland with headquarters at Baranowice and has reportedly stolen many military documents. A noon-commissioner officer caught stealing mobilization plans was court martialed and shot.
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Warsaw
Poland
Baranowice
Hop Along Bradder Smith in Political Verse
A satirical poem mocks Bradder Smith and President Hoover, urging him to hop along. The lines critique political bias, party donations, and Washington power, reflecting a heated election atmosphere in a county context.
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Washington
Brudder Smith
Jes Hop Slong
White House
President Hoover
Prose on Prosperity and Public Life From Oklahoma Speech
A column notes Governor Smith in Oklahoma City facing scrutiny from Dr. Straton and Ku Klux Klan leaders. It discusses campaign prosperity as the central issue, plus digressions on longevity, Turkish tales, and a circus clown’s suicide, linking broad social reflections to politics.
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Governor Johnston
Oklahoma
B. G. Forbes
Capone Wounded as Gun Misfire Traps Boss in Hospital
The article describes Capone wounded by a accidental gun discharge, lying in a hospital with guards and gunmen watching over him. It mentions bootleg money funding protection, vast millionaire counts in Britain and New York, and Chicago planning ten thousand men for poll protection while socialists monitor voting and challenge illegitimate ballots.
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Chicago
New York
Workers of
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Socialist Party
Hoover Resumes Speech Work at Elizabethton
Washington Sept 24 The growing intensity of the presidential campaign is noted by officials as Herbert Hoover works at his desk on the Elizabethton speech. He has no callers on his list and handles developments over the weekend through spokesmen Hubert Work and George Akerson. He is to appear tonight before business editors, a custom he began while secretary.
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Herbert Hoover
Elizabethton
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
George Akerson
Hoover
Business Papers
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Campaign Booklets Claim Labor Gains Under Hoover
A Republican campaign text asserts labor conditions improved since the Wilson era. It cites 6,000,000 idle workers then and says virtually everyone has work now, with high wages and gains abroad. It notes Hoover chaired the unemployment conference that claimed 6,000,000 placed to work and 4,000,000 helped.
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Smith
Denver
Sai Smith
Hoover
Pwper
Commerce Department
Work
America
Labor Department
King Alphonso Arrival in London With Duke of Miranda
King Alphonso of Spain and the Duke of Miranda arrived in London today from Scotland, greeted by the Spanish ambassador at the station and escorted to the Claridge hotel. The royal visit follows a stay at Dunrobin Castle with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland.
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Alphonso
Spain
Duke of Miranda
Dunrobin Castle
Scotland
Duke
Duchess of Sutherland
Claridge Hotel
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