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Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a jury, has sent a woman to the electric chair for killing a man. At the execution, Midnight, while newshawks are invading his home on one pretext or another to catch his reaction, the florist's daughter (Linda Watkins of June Moon) staggers in with a revolver and the tale...
Thereupon the florist's ideas undergo a complete metamorphosis on the subject of capital punishment. He does everything he can to save his child. But Miss Watkins would undoubtedly go to the chair were it not for some impudent but sage political advice which Mr. Glenn Anders (Hotel Universe), as a newspaper reporter, breathes into the ear of the district attorney...
...preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even then Milhaud stood apart. Some professed to find a queer, shadowy beauty in his music. Others dismissed him as crude, trifling, freakish (he once set a florist's catalog to music for voice and chamber orchestra). Several important Berlin opinions sided with these last and with the ill-mannered boos which swept the Staatsoper after Christopher Columbus. The music was "thin," a "European scandal." All agreed that Claudel's play was the great contribution, that...
...Colosimo was murdered. Torrio took command of the liquor and vice gang, Capone becoming his No. 1 assistant. Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down in his florist shop. A few months later Torrio was mangled with slugs, fled to Europe. It was then that Capone took charge, pushed his program of expansion; and then that "Bugs" Moran, supposed successor to O'Banion, became his bitterest gangland enemy...