Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a criminal comes to Boston, according to Hultman, he immediately finds that he is being constantly trailed by the police. Any infraction of the law will insure his being locked up. This shadowing prevents the crook's getting a start in the underworld here; it upsets his morale, and discourages his stay. The roving auto patrols which have been almost doubled since Hultman became commissioner last May, place the thug in constant danger of being surprised at work or being picked up as a suspicious character...
...Citizen Coolidge's opening bid for presidential consideration next year. Western agrarians openly mocked the attack on the Farm Board, called Mr. Coolidge "the farmers' arch-enemy." Meanwhile most Eastern editorial comment agreed with Critic Coolidge, inveighed all the louder against price stabilization as a crook-headed economic principle on which President Hoover, sooner or later, must do a politically painful about-face. Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge courteously replied...
...where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along. Last spring he was implicated in a charge of breaking...
...gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography and acting and directing that the familiar fictions are almost good again. Best shot: a crook who has just come out of Sing Sing walking and talking in his sleep...
Shadow of the Law (Paramount). This crook story might have been made into almost any kind of cinema?absolute nonsense, or a fair program piece, or, as has happened, into highly successful and entertaining melodrama. Between the time when Powell kills a man accidentally, and goes to. jail for life for a murder he has not committed?a murder which can be explained only by the woman who was in the room when it happened and who refuses to give her testimony?through Powell's prison life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow...