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Gin mills, racketeers, grafters were not all. Bordellos, roulette wheels & lottery dens also figured in the testimony. From time to time Philadelphians were treated to the graphic evidence of a gang murder, racketeer ructions in the purlieus of the city. Never before had Pennsylvanians read of such corruption in city...
Hardly less contemptible than the politicians were well-meaning preachers who hired gambling dens for prayer-meetings, and bribed notorious gangsters to attend. Amused and contemptuous, the gangs whirled merrily on down the broad way that leadeth to destruction, their activities culminating in the wholesale looting and burning and carnage...
This vivid expose of gambling dens and brothels, with their picaresque inmates, falls short of melodrama without losing excitement. The faithful account of all the greatest gang leaders sometimes runs to a monotony of horrors, but is soon varied with naive tong wars, and prosperous "fences"-fat women who bought...
Pola Negri's glittering photodrama "Three Sinners" is one of those pictures which thrill backwoods audiences and cause girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so...
A few years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship...