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Forthwith, a good deal of the filling in was done by John H. McEvers, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings who had been sent from Washington to clean up the last big gangster tax case left on the Federal docket. Prosecutor McEvers passed over Flegenheimer's novitiate in crime, which began when he served an apprenticeship under the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was interrupted when Flegenheimer went into hiding after his indictment two years ago, and officially ended when, terrified by the Government's bloody drive against the nation's mobsters, he gave himself up at Albany...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
...likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school. Likeliest song hit: "About a Quarter to Nine...
...Stolen Harmony" is a mixture between a gangster pictures, a behind-the-scenes musical cofedy, and a bus romance. It has all the thrills known to conventional movie-land,--speeding busses, motor-cycles and sirens, gangster hideouts, a misunderstood hero, gauze covered females, crooning erotic paw dances, luxurious bars, a gun-battle, tough humor, raucous humor, dirty humor, love and kisses. The packed theatre drooled in ecstasy...
...Chicago, Gangster Chester Novak who had boasted he could "take it," took the first 1,900-volt jolt of current in the electric chair, lived; took another, another, still lived; on the fifth jolt was dead. Sheriff Toman apologized for his electric chair: "Novak drank so much coffee, maybe it stimulated his heart...