Word: gangsterisms
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...time's sake in the ash cans to get Joan a job in a chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their indisputable positions under Joan's eyelashes, she is the headliner in the Kaley Night Club having displaced Frances Williams...
...courtroom stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances...
...Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers are types with whom cinemaddicts should be more familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fianc...
...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...outline, the story concerns the contest between the student body of a small-town high school and a peculiarly childish gangster named Louis Garrett (Charles Bickford). When the gangster shoots a Hebrew tailor for refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict him. When the gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code...