Word: gangsterized
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...played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth it. For in Norman The Aldrich Family has a safely...
...modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter for a gangster...
...experiment in teaching U.S. history didn't get very far. Most secondary schoolchildren, who knew far more about ancient Greece than about the U.S., believed "the best people withdrew from the colony and left the troublemakers to fight it out among themselves." And via Hollywood, they believed in gangster-ruled cities and an all-cowboy West...
...joined the FBI soon after getting a law degree from Washington, D.C.'s George Washington University in 1925. He was one of the FBI men in the Kansas City Union Station massacre (1933), the gunfight in which "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his gang tried to free Gangster Frank Nash, and in which four officers were killed. On that occasion Vetterli was grazed by a bullet under the left arm. But Nash was killed (Floyd got away). Vetterli was the FBI agent in Kansas City when Mary McElroy was kidnapped; he helped round up the San Jose, Calif, kidnappers...
...audience really likes it; nor is there any reason under the sun why they shouldn't. Though its ending is a little obvious and its plot at times doesn't stand up under close inspection, the picture is a fast-moving, well-acted, well-written, and excellently directed gangster story. Robert Taylor is a big-shot crook with a heart so hard that he doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till almost the end of the picture. When he does find that he loves her the story becomes lightly trite and melodramatic, but up to then it moves...