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...Chicago many a charge against past & present city officials arose from the finding of Gangster Jack Zuta's record books (TIME, Sept.1). Since the first of the year the city's finances have been in dire straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity...
...hotel found the pajama-clad, tuberculosis-ravaged, bullet-torn figure of Jack ("Legs") Diamond collapsed near the elevator, where he had dragged himself with the aid of a "coupla shots o' whiskey." Diamond was about the best Manhattan could boast in the way of a big-time gangster. They rushed him in a dying state to the Polyclinic Hospital in a private ambulance under the care of his private physician. When the police learned of the affair, half the detectives in the city jumped into the case...
...Chicago, Chris Longhini, Gogebic (Mich.) trapper and woodsman, remembered news-pictures he had seen of gangsters and photographers with tripod cameras. Seeing a surveyor pointing a theodolite his way Woodsman Longhini decided it was a cameraman mistaking him for a gangster. He charged, smashed the theodolite, punched the surveyor. In court he paid $400 for the ruined instrument...
...wanted was faith; Gissing believed in purity, and Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots...
...Squealer (Columbia). Davey Lee who stepped from urchinhood to stardom with Al Jolson is the squealer. His gangster-chief father Charles Hart (Jack Holt) has just killed the leader of a rival gang and is hiding from the dead man's cronies. Davey as Bunny does not know that he has told a mortal enemy the whereabouts of his father. To save her husband from certain death Mrs. Hart (Dorothy Revier) weepingly calls in the Law. Father Hart is caught in time by the police and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced...