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Hard to Handle (Warner). In his recent expositions of modern careers of danger & daring, James Cagney has been a gangster, gambler, taxidriver, auto-racer and sneak-thief, all with perfect Brooklyn-Irish sangfroid. In Hard to Handle he is a flip, beady-eyed, irresponsible publicist, as unlike Ivy Lee, to whom he compares himself, as possible. When he promotes a marathon dance he falls in love with one of the contestants (Mary Brian) and has to run away from her mother (Ruth Donnelly) when his partner steals the prize money. Disaster, as usual, encourages Cagney. He promotes a treasure hunt...
...black bears, 175 grizzlies were earmarked or had their feet painted so they would leave tracks when they broke into cabins or automobiles. For repeated offenses the penalty was death by bullet. Said Director Albright last week: "They didn't mean any harm, but when they developed gangster habits among the tourists ... we had to kill them...
Rackety Rax (Fox) is a brilliant travesty on college football and racketeering. It starts when a gangster, Knucks McGloin (Victor McLaglen) is escorted to his first football game by his publicity agent. Speed Bennett (Arthur Pierson...
Died. Frankie McErlane, Chicago gangster, reputed inventor of the "one way ride"; of pneumonia; in Beardstown...
...appointments were announced: John H. Holliday of St. Louis, to be Vice Governor of the Philippines (now in Manila, Mr. Holliday is legal adviser to Governor General Roosevelt); Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced...