Word: durkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin...
Everybody knows that no criminal has any legal protection against the publication of the facts of his conviction. Murderer Durkin's chief hope for an injunction was therefore based on an unusual Illinois statute which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...
...house in northern California the boys tell Jean Rouverol that it is time she stopped trying to play with them. Four months later she is trying out high heels and inquiring why it is bad form to tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren's attention, Junior pushes...
...Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin) who has been edged almost out of the story because a separate picture about him is going to be made soon. Best technical shot: speech used as a sound-accompaniment of action in the schoolroom scene, where the teacher keeps on talking while the camera follows more interesting things...