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...omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought in $8,400 in cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor...
...barrier shot a bay gelding named Debenture with a pretty brunette in black & white silks on his back. The rider was Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond. With a generous lead to start, she rode Debenture hard to win by two lengths over Mrs. "Jock" Whitney on Range Finder, Mrs. Barney Balding finished third on Harold E. Talbott's Kummel. Favorites Halcyon and Pompeius gallumped in the ruck...
...Macfarlane) is the deadliest love pirate in the U. S. Navy. He has cardboard boxes full of garters, duly tagged, to prove it. In Panama, however, lives a young lady named Billie Jackson (Audrey Christie) whose hard heart has gained her the sobriquet of "Stonewall." Dynamite's friend Barney organizes a big sweepstake, wagering his prized key-winding watch that Dynamite can overcome Stonewall's maidenly reticence within a week. Dynamite wins, in a sense. But since the victory involves marriage, all bets are off. Amusing sequence: Dynamite, returning to his ship late on the fifth night...
...suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
...fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some countries...