Word: gangsterisms
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...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...
...distributes much Federal patronage in Manhattan for Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley. Prosecutor Dewey charged that the same hand which distributes this patronage received from $500 to $1,000 per week from the policy racketeers-headed first by the late "Dutch" Schultz, since his death by that gangster's slick lawyer, "Dixie" Davis-as the price for providing political influence (with police, judges, etc.) to keep the racketeers out of jail...
Died. Kubec Glasmon, 40, Polish-born screen writer; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A druggist during Prohibition on Chicago's gang-infested West Side, short, mild-mannered Kubec Glasmon teamed up with an ex-newshawk, John Bright, wrote a series of gangster movies, Public Enemy, Smart Money, Blonde Crazy, Taxi...
...Evening Post's Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla Lane...
Having finished about six-and-a-half years of an eleven-year term (almost four of them in Alcatraz), Chicago's No. 1 gangster, Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, was reported to have gone berserk on leaving the dining hall, to have been carried to the infirmary where he spent day after day foolishly making and unmaking his bed. No. 23 on a list of 26 items ''desirable for the happiness of man'' compiled by famed Dr. Edward Lee Thorndike, director of the Institute of Educational Research at Teachers College, Columbia University: "Something to be angry...