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...customary tricks while tracking a gang of embittered bank robbers to a small-town hideaway. Fred MacMurray is the Federal agent who arrives in town pretending to be a representative for an airline. Madge Evans is the girl reporter who regards him with suspicion. Leslie Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which police with machine guns exterminate their enemies. Most sadistic shot: gangsters pushing a dinner pail over Overman's ears...
Public Hero No. 1 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is not much variation possible in the formula demanded by the current cycle of G-Men pictures. In this one, Scenarist Wells Root did about all he could by making the heroine (Jean Arthur) the sister of a crook rather than of a Federal detective, and by letting the audience mistake the G-Man hero for a criminal until his visit to his superior reveals that the jail break he engineered was really a trick to gain the confidence of the leader (Joseph Calleia) of the Purple Gang, who escaped...
...amateur plastic surgeon who altered the fingertips and features of the late John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City...
...choose courses. The conclusive test for him must be the danger of losing tutorial benefits anyway, if courses are not first dealt with, or the danger of losing out on well-deserved honors and scholarships. So tutors and tutorial are neglected. Courses are passed off by hook or by crook. And many a graduate has benefited nothing directly from the education which he, with idealistic and generous endowers, have paid for. Like certain types of preferred stock, the tutorial system is attended to only after all other issues. Sometimes the residue is very slight, or zero, but at least...
...there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results...