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...slums, the young architect (Joel McCrea) who dreams of some day being able to rebuild the slums but at the same time wants passionately to leave them, the cop who thinks that arresting kids is a humiliating job for a man, Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart), the gangster who comes home to find his mother loathes him, and his old sweetheart Francey (Claire Trevor) is a physical ruin. The not unhappy ending of the screen version of Dead End is no less valid than that of the stage original, should strike even the most critical cinemagoers as art rather than...
...actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both of whom mistake Pat for the thief. The gangster has orders from the Big Fellow in Manhattan to deliver Pat as a willy-nilly ally. No sooner has the boat docked than Pat is hurried away by gangsters, told she must do a decoy dance that night when...
...Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story...
...Miami, Fla., the Federal Government filed a tax lien against the Palm Island mansion of Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of imprisoned Gangster Al Capone...
lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey...