Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1930, Page 12

FURNITURE MART IN CHICAGO BOMBED {Two Blasts Occur Within Few Hours—Police Probe Sunday Fatality. By the Assocated Press. CHICAGO, December 9.—One of the world’s largest office buildings, the American Furniture Mart, situated in Lake Shore drive on the near North Side, was bombed last night. A hole ‘was torn in the first floor, masonry on the Huron street side was ripped away and windows throughout the north and | northeast parts of the buudlngmw:nli shattered. ~ Estimates of the ge ranged from $5,000 to $15,000. | | | Motive Lacking. | Mystery surrounded the explosion, | which was on the first floor and of | force that it knocked Frank ewics, night custodian, off his feet, shattered all office equipment within a sadius of 20 feet and set off osion, which mllv:e} the | Delieved was attached to a time fuse.| Neither could any one supply a motive. ‘The « bom| nd was at a three-story brick build- used as & grocery and meat market in West Harrison street. A black pow- der b threw two families from their beds and caused mated at $1,000. eompetitors. : Fatal Bombing Investigated. The police, meanwhile, had a fatal| bombing under investigation, that of the apartment of Tony May, money Jender fessional bondsman, y & bomb sent through A coroner's jury returned &n open verdict but learned that May | spparently had been the object of a| bomb two weeks previous. roperty damage esti- %ndrew ‘Trotti blamed | | November 28 ity, December 2 November 29 November 21 fovember “November 38 aria—Liverpool tessa—] Ceiba Southern Cross—Buenos Aires. Maravai—Trinidad 2 DUE TODAY. de Prance—Havre . jestic—Southampton 08 ident Fillmore—Worl nsylvania—Glasgow Oaracas—Maracaibo Morro Castle—Havana amar—8t. Thomas Jusn—San Juan . DUE TOMORROW. pa—Santa Marta. . 8t. George—Bermuda DUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. Igenland_—Antwerp irginia—Kingston .. December araiso Colombia Becember Orizaba—Vera Cruz December United _States—Copenhagen. ... December OUTGOING STEAMERS. IG_TODAY. Btavangerfjord—Be; vs -] n. CristobalFort au Brince and Cristobal. 5 hagen. Volemasm Piomouth Bodlorne and Rotter- Conte ' Biancamano—Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa. BAILING TOMORROW. Vuleania—Cannes, Naples and Trieste. Veendam—Bermuda. Deutechland—Cherbours. Southampton and mi George ‘Washington—Plymouth, Oherbours Sixacla. Hamburg. —Kingston, Cristobal. _ Cartagens, Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta. mas. s pelrsde, Me raeus, tinople and Marse! xarch—Alexandria. iew Toronto—Accra. Aidan—Para. Edward Luckenbash—Pacific Coast. SAILING THURSDAY., DECEMBER 11. riin—Galway. Boulogne and Bremerhaven. E& Lorenzo—San Juan and Santo Domingo ty. fmerfun Banker—London. nnoko—Antwerp. Tijuca—Montevideo and Buenos Alres. ‘Troubadour—Rio de @aneiro. SAILING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1f. maria—Cobh and Liverpool. de Prance_Plymouth and Havre. L ouis—Galway, Cherbourg and Hamburs. uthern Cros: rmuds, Rio de Janeiro, Santos. M ideo_and Buenos Alres. Roma_Gibra Naples and Geno irginia—La Bacchus—Fort au Prince, Curacao and Mara- 100, lfliflfld-m—l’lmwm. Boulogne and Rotter- am: eira, SAILING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. ansylvania—Moville, d Glaszow. R_;F‘li;u'oeod ree 8t Thomas: Baroados and ids Sants Teresa—Cristobal, Callao and Val-| paraiso. o Juati—San Jusn. famares—Havans, ~Cristobal and Port imon. n Aziec—Santiago, Kingston and Puerto Bar- i a—Havana. Progreso _and Vera Cruz. tic—Cherbourg _and ~Southampton. no—Valparaiso_and Callao. livar —Puerto Colombia. rmuds—Bermuda. SAILING MONDAY, Pelseniand_World crulss. ropa—Cherbours, Southampton and Brem- erhaven SAILING TUESDAY., DECEMBER 16. Mauretania — Plymouth, Cherbours and Now « « DECEMBER 15. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washingtofl's Theateta. Helen Hayes Delightful in “Petticoat Influence.” HE new British com: by Nell Grant, at the Shubert- Belasco, “Petticoat Influence,” is one of the sprightliest of the season's frolics, made by Helen * Hayes and a super cast. In fact, this is one of those rare com- binations of fun and foolishness which rol;; al merrily = dialogue. True it accom- plishes 1ittle save to give an evening of un- questionable de- light. o ‘This, a8 the case of its edy that never taxes, ti;es x::l: ulates its audience to fever mfll activity. It has situations which have been rolled in and out of theatric warehouses since Shake- speare got Malvolio into striped hoslery. And yet, thanks to the way the author has of snapping out lines and the way the actors have of de- livering them, there is scarcely a Helen Hayes. ‘moment hinting either of the past or of the h\lmd’:lu'zn &nsefi'l',. “1“ a spicy glimpse e’ lives of an B';nbfllous wife, a solidly English huskand and an old fool who forgets that he is no longer equipped with the charms of a gangling lover. The title, which toward the last is exploited overmuch in words, sums up the situation very prettily. Miss Hayes, most_attractive in mood and deed, struggles to get the post of Arda—a Pacific island somewhere in the boiling region—for her diplo- matically inclined husband, after it has been handed by a cabinet mem- ber to his wife’s uncle. To accom- plish her ambition she sneaks away to the minister's home, dodges in and out of curtains, flirts outrageous- ly with him and gets the island served on a gold platter for her un- suspecting husband. ‘There are, of course, ensuing com- plications which have to do with Miss Hayes' almost disastrous per- fection in flirtation, and the cabinet member’s wife, who has been skiing on snow and very thin ice with her husband’s secretary in Switzerland, and who is suspected of having been skilng with Miss Hayes’ husband instead. However, in a “round table” dis- cussion these points are settled most satisfactorily for everybody but the minister, who is under the impres- sion that he has fixed everything to & nicety, which he has. Other than Miss Hayes, whose role is not so large as it might be, sbut who does everything there is to be done probably better than anybody else might, there is Henry Stephen- son—Iate of “Journey’s End” fame— as the foolish and amorous noble- man in charge of juggling the Island of Arda. Mr. Stephenson is quite up to his usual excellent stand- ard, and Reginald Owen, in a small- er role, is better than that. Mr. Owen, who has a habit of “stealing” any show In which he happens to be, comes very near doing it again in this case. And then to complete an almost perfect cast there are John Williams, Valerle Taylor, an exceptionally capable newcomer, and Eric Cowley, who complains elo- quently about being, the son of & duke and England’s unwillingness to give him a post therefore. E.de 8. M. “In the Meantime” . Well Presented at the National. S!VmAL striking stage views of the “halo” that sometimes sur- rounds those who do violence to their fellow citizens, with particular attention to the mysterious influence of persons who turn to slaying as & heart balm, give sensational force to the Theater Guild’s play, “In the uunume.‘; 1'h‘lt.‘h 8 week's engagement last at the Na- tln_?.;l Theater. S > ere are three acts in the duction, but they might as 'elr‘i: one act, for the continuous develop- ment of the story gives the effect of a single episode, in which a large company is involved, and there is no necessary interruption to the story of the temperamental foreman of the murder jury, who shares with his family the somewhat hysterical effect of dealls with human lives. The electric chair is in the back- ground, and an entire family shares, through the radio, in the devastat! effect of the punishment of a wom: who has taken the life of one who was & friend. The dramatists, Claire and Paul Sifton, have undertaken to make vivid the plea of those who crusade against capital punishment and be- lieve that the impersonal taking of life by the State does not atone for the more emotional act of the over- wrought person who becomes a mar- tyr to her own desire to inflict pun- ishment on an unfaithful friend. Good drama may be expected merely to picture the zeal of the reformer of criminal practice and the effect on the mind of a young person when great publicity is given to the execu- tion of a woman. That such pub- licity and the making of a somewhat heroic character out of the one who committed the original crime may suggest a similar deed is the thesis of the play. 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The belief that such publication makes murder attractive, instead of bek a deterrent, may well be a subject debate. e setf ‘which is pre- effective ul;" letall. “Fine Feathers” An Unusual Show. BURLESQUE offers at the Gayety 3 this week , some= The force of the drama, viewed 85 | thing auite o vl oo te a work of art, without purpose eéx- cept to present a brief representation o of the Mutual circuit—] from life, is in the evident effect of such incidents upon the emotional youth of America. Linda Watkins, as Stella, the overwrought daughter of the jury foreman, who is impelled to duplicate a notorious crime be- cause of her own unfaithful lover, ves a convincing exhibition of & terical girl who sees an easy way out of her own problem by following the example of the “heroine” of the newspaper stories. 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