Word: dion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colosimo's murder moved Capone up. Now he was cheek by jowl with Diamond Jim's lieutenant, Johnny Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left...
...villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...
...Most successful 19th-Century playwright was famed Irish-born Dion Boucicault whose The Streets of New York played 2,800 times in all, London Assurance 2,900 times, The Colleen Bawn...
Edward H. Addelson '39, Charles D. Aldrich '40, Graham G. Alverd (37 ocC, Wayne F. Anderson '41, Dion J. J. Archon '40, Edmund W. Banas '39, James M. Banghart '40, Bernard Barber '39, Clarence H. Barber '40, Abraham N. Barger '39, Harry E. von Bergen '41, Edward A. Bergstrom '39, Christoph F. W. Berliner '40, Melvin B. Black '40, Howard L. Blackwell Jr. '39, Norman D. Blotner '40, Coleridge A. Braithwaite '39, Norman H. Brisson '39, Sidney I. Brodie '40, Harold James Etmekjian '39, Murray F. Foss '40, Melvin H. Freedman '41, Pasquale F. Frisoli '40, William R. Frye...
...packs a punch that will bear watching is evident when she kicks young Bob (Tom Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways of his late father, opens a gilded saloon, maneuvers away from Political Boss Gil Warren (Brian Donlevy) his treacle-toned lady, Belle Fawcett (Alice Faye), and his control of votes in the Patch. When these votes elect honest Brother Jack mayor, Dion expects...