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With an eye to variety, Director Edward H. Griffith slipped in several enlivening touches of his own. The best: Low-brow Erwin, rolling dice on his program during the performance of Martha, finds neighbors on both sides of him eager to play, turns up snake eyes to complete his dismal evening...
...attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
...farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped ship with him the first time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone...
...Limo hid out with Limo's girl, Alicia, in her dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does it make if it takes...
...three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked during a crap game in a saloon when he persisted in kibitzing after a superstitious dice-thrower complained that he was a jinx...