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J 'PJy - -V -) . Take a look at their faces.
j f tt '1 jk, "1 f Those faces, my fellow journalists, belong
k-- V "".Vi I J :lX l5i to our forebearers and the people they hung
j-"w4.Prl ' J 5ff '"r around with. They inhabited the press rooms,
P L tJ) f j t.s offices and bars of the early 20th century and
l. I Jrm J tainted our memories of the time yellow. They
' ""4 a, f; fXs J y ' were ambitious, profane, irreverent, gut-level
f J A t men in a time when one of the quickest ways
Tl ' I fpl I XJ' to the top was picture-stealing. The pictures
' J ' 7 Si'' I they stole came right off the tables and
. i) If A 1 mantles of that day's victim's house.
J '"' V y a f t V Ben Hecht, a consummate picture-stealer
' jV ;'''','JJ'rt--f- 1 1 and a pretty good journalist besides, set
y ; S "7y 4 V down some of his memories with Charles
f - XT U O f Y MacArthur. The result is the play Front Page,
S j-J ft? ! . .? ' ljfL- opening Friday and running through next
"""w, 4f . ,t vJF- &mi ' i Saturday each night (except Sunday) at
tH V-r- Howell Theater.
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: 'Koios by Bill Ganzel