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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket Issued. Issue of the Official Magazine of the Earl Carroll Theatre Restaurant in Hollywood, California. 'Through these Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Girl in the World'. Undated but 1941 from research. The magazine contains the program for, 'Something to Shout About' - a Revue in Two Acts and Forty Scenes. 40pp, photo illustrated, articles, advertising etc . Clean, unmarked copy. Slight wear to the covers but no tears, folds, marks etc. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations. Size: 22cm Tall. Paper. …

No Binding. Condizione: Good. Wanted Poster 323 x 168 mm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. Top and bottom blank margins clipped. [Transcription:] "POLICE DEPARTMENT Office of Marshal BALTIMORE, MD., October 9th, 1906. WANTED FOR FALSE PRETENSES. [Mugshot Images: ID 1949] JAMES HARTRAY LANGDON. WE HOLD WARRANT AND INDICTMENT for the arrest of JAMES HARTRAY LANGDON on the charge of obtaining a Gold Open Watch and Chain, valued at $215.00, by means of False Pretenses (Bogus Check), from John W. Mealy, Sons and Co., of this city, on October 1st, 1906. Description of Watch: Gold Open Face, size No. 12, 18 karat, minute repeater, gold hands, made by Tuchon & Co., Geneva, No. 7909; also Gold Rope Chain. Description of Langdon: Age about 29 years, height 5 ft. 5 in., weight about 115 lbs., slender build, smooth face, dark chestnut hair, medium fair complexion, violet blue eyes; when last seen was dressed in light grey or light large plaid suit; wears handkerchief in coat pocket, puff tie with scarf pin in it. Kindly have thorough search made at all Pawn-brokers and Dealers for the above described Watch, and if located advise me at once; also keep sharp lookout for Langdon, and if located arrest and wire me, and an officer will be sent with papers for him. Very respectfully, TH[OMAS] F. FARNAN, Marshal of Police. On October 1, 1906, Langdon entered John W. Mealy, Sons & Co. jewelers in Baltimore and purchased a high-end luxury watch and chain valued at $215 (equivalent to roughly $7,500 today). He paid with a bad check drawn from the Corn Exchange Bank of New York, where he held no account. The police department distributed this circular on October 9, and Langdon was quickly apprehended. On November 15, 1906, there was a formal arraignment before Judge Harlan. During the process of entering a plea, Langdon was permitted to address the court. Langdon used this opportunity to make a statement in mitigation. He didn't deny taking the watch or passing the check, but he attempted to convince the judge that his intent wasn't criminal. He claimed he acted in "good faith" and fully intended to deposit funds into the New York bank to cover it (an excuse he used in other cases). His excuse was a legal impossibility because the prosecution proved he did not even hold an account at that bank to deposit money into. Once Langdon realized his "good faith" story was dismantled, he pled guilty. To try to garner leniency, he falsely claimed he was 24 years old when in fact he was c. 29. Judge Harlan accepted the guilty plea and based on Langdon's dishonest statements and his history of deception, he sentenced him to 3 years of hard labor in the Maryland Penitentiary. Langdon's criminal career did not start or stop in Baltimore in 1906. He had been a traveling con artist along the East Coast and parts of the Midwest. His favorite tactic was traveling to small town banks, presenting himself as a respectable businessman, and passing forged certified checks. To build trust, he signed the bogus checks using the name of his actual father, Samuel P. Langdon, an apparently reputable figure from Philadelphia. In a major incident prior to Baltimore, a cashier named A.H. Beatty at the Saltsburg Bank in Pennsylvania hesitated over one of Langdon's large Philadelphia checks. Beatty looked up the bank directory, realized the forgery, and had a constable arrest Langdon on the spot. When police locked him up in Pennsylvania, it was learned that Langdon was already a wanted fugitive, with police warrants for identical check fraud schemes in Tyrone (PA), Latrobe (PA), and Youngstown (OH). The watch was probably stripped for its 18-karat gold value, sold under a completely different black-market identity, or sits unrecognized in a private family collection. During the Great Depression and various gold booms of the 20th century, thousands of vintage pocket watches were stripped of their gold. . . and gongs. It rings separate tones for the hours, quarter-hours, and individual minutes. In 1906, before illuminated dials, a minute repeater allowed a wealthy owner to audibly check the time in darkness (such as inside a theater or a horse-drawn carriage (illustratore).…

Double atlas folio. 28 x 44 in. One hand-painted & lettered lobby poster, vivid Art Deco lettering in red, white, green & blue, three windows cut for mounting 3 separate 8 x 10 in. original studio silver gelatin photographs from verso, bordered in yellow (minor edgewear, scuffing, faint tidemark to very upper left fore-edge, tear not affecting lettering or design to right fore-edge margin), still a VG- exemplar. An exceptional hand-painted Jazz Age Art Deco lobby poster for the pre-code 1931 MGM comedy film, "The Bachelor Father," directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and screenplay by Edward Childs Carpenter, & Laurence E. Johnson, based on the 1928 Broadway play. Set against the backdrop of a plot featuring an aging Sir Basil Algernon Winterton played by C. Aubrey Smith in both Broadway Play and film, who is urged to reacquaint himself with his three illegitimate children from three different liaisons in his youth. Marion Davies stars as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg initially believes she is one of the lost daughters, but discovers the original daughter had died, and chooses to leave England, only to crash in her friends plane, and survive to reunite and marry Sir Basil's assistant John Ashley. Many of the plot lines and dialogue could not have been produced after the imposition of the 1934 Motion Picture Production Code, including several casual references to Sir Basil's affairs, casual approach to his bastard children, and even keeping a ledger of all his lover's names and dates of the affairs. Graeper (1875-1970) had taken over the management and ownership of the Union Ave. Theater at 539 Union Ave. in Portland before 1914, expanded its seating capacity in 1916-17 just prior to the US entrance into World War I. The Egyptian Theater was opened in 1924, adorned with exotic decorations such as Egyptian revival pillars, pyramids, and ornamental urns, with lotus flower motifs. The architect was Edward A. Miller, and featured 866 seats on the main floor and 344 in the balcony, closing after 1963 to become a warehouse. The musical accompaniment for the silent films and Vaudeville acts in the Egyptican were from a Wurlitzer Style F (opus #855) pipe organ shipped by the Wurlitzer factory in July, 1924, later moved to the Scottish Rite Temple in 1936.…