CATASTROPHE: Pathetique

A tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator.

Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below...

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