Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time May has six children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most...
...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...