Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days after the 107th Street affray, an Italian gambler and his friend were shot down four blocks away. Children, playing in front of a public school, scattered to safety in time. Day after that, a police riot squad set out in automobiles, shot down four holdup...
...continually scratching herself; and by an itinerant king who happens into the hotel and stays because he likes the pie, Dowling makes his venture a howling success. Subplots concern his romance with the niece of the rival hotelkeeper, the effects of right living on a case-hardened gambler and two thuggish assistants. Far from a great picture, perhaps not even a good one, Honeymoon Lane should continue to enrich its originator, to amuse cinemaddicts who are partial to bromidic comedy. Sample shots: Dowling trying to send a telegram while Ray Dooley kicks his head; the king carrying a suitcase upstairs...
Smart Money (Warner Brothers) is a fast, factual and exciting cinema about a Greek gambler named, after several real ones, Nick.* He gets started in a small-town barber shop, running a poker game on the side. His customers so respect his poker playing that they stake him for a big-town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist...
...were seven other articles of impeachment, brought in earlier last week. Frankly trivial, these accused him, among other things, of spending $2,800 in State funds for a grand piano for the Executive Mansion three days after publicly stating that he would not do so; of pardoning a Memphis gambler while he was still a fugitive from justice; of dismissing two State highway commissioners because they would not "abdicate and surrender their official consciences"; of failing to account for public funds until after his reelection. The Governor's friends and allies were confident, however, that the defeat...
...great mathematicians (like M. Henri Poincare) who have applied their minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo...