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Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this time as martyr to an oldtime Press tradition...
...frustrated by a species of blackmail over the witness, instead of the genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...
...Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...incipient Southern Gentleman soon had to be curbed by rules scarcely necessary in the North-against keeping or betting on race horses and game-cocks, and against billiards, cards, and dice. Once a Professor of Moral Philosophy was forced to resign-he had led the collegians in a riot against some Williamsburg town rowdies...
Elmers stopped streetcar service by camping in the middle of the tracks on busy Grand Boulevard. Elmers marched out into the middle of Lindell Boulevard, asked each other: "Who's got the dice?" threw down match boxes, bits of tin, Missouri's milk-bottle-top sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift...