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Blackie Gallagher was the most engaging screen gangster to come out of Hollywood since Little Caesar. Gay, ruthless. debonair, he rose from guttersnipe to big-shot with swashbuckling bravado, killing in cold blood all who opposed him. Finally the Law caught Blackie Gallagher, marched him to the electric chair...
...press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers' lobby. He detests most gossip columnists, calls Walter Winchell a "journalistic gangster...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...Frau von Schleicher flung herself before her husband to protect him and the Secret Police shot them both "in self defense." Later an eyewitness reported that six men in civilian garb had driven into the von Schleicher driveway, summoned the General and his wife, riddled them with bullets in gangster style, sped away without a word...
Shocked British editors deplored Adolf Hitler's "gangster methods." Only head of a foreign state to comment was spry little Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss, an extremely devout Catholic. "Does it not now become apparent," he observed piously, "that when one leaves the path of Christian thought, the path of Justice, one enters a path of Error from which there is no turning back? . . . Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one can not make a people happy with violence...