Word: gangsterisms
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...found his place in movies. The part of a hard-boiled Broadway guy fits him perfectly, and Warner Brothers, who are not usually slow to recognize a good thing when they have it, would do well to keep him in parts like this, instead of making him a bloodthirsty gangster whom everybody is supposed to hate and who dies a well-deserved death at the hands of the police...
Evelyn Frechette opened the door to Chicago police hunting one Walter J. Wilson for embezzlement. They recognized her as the onetime mistress of gangster John Dillinger, now Wilson's wife. She had been traveling with a carnival, lecturing on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Police jailed her for questioning...
...success does not mean that its journalistic sins are profitable. The Tribune's success can be laid to other factors than its news. It has always had a great and tough circulation department, perfected by that wizard of circulation, the late Max Annenberg, who fought Hearst with almost gangster methods, and carried on by Max's blasphemous brother-in-law, Louis Rose. No small credit for the Tribune's fat profit belongs to Business Manager W. E. Macfarlane...
...mostly warmed over old journalistic dishes in preparation for the arrival of the Marshall Field paper. Month ago the Tribune headlined an exposé of gambling in Cook County - an anti-climactic series which served chiefly to remind Chicagoans how long ago were the Tribune's successful anti-gangster campaigns in the '20s. The Colonel inaugurated a series of articles on points of interest in Chicago-a well-worn reminder that he loves the town in which he has so large a proprietary interest. (The trouble with New York, says the Colonel, is that it has a bigshot...
...Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...