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...Defender is none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability, those who like to shiver at make-believe gunmen will be able to do so. Conrad Nagel, playing the hero, wears without embarrassment the name of "Handsome...
...fame rests upon the fact that whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled with machine-gun fire, Chicagoans take it for granted that Mr. Capone or his men have driven in again from their suburban headquarters at Cicero, Ill., to shoot down some rival gangster who has overstepped one of the underworld boundary lines which divide all Chicago into four parts (TIME, Mar 21). So many innocent bystanders have been shot down by gang warriors in Chicago that Chicagoans have great respect for Mr. Capone. The vice syndicate he is reputed to control is supposed...
BROADWAY?First and still best of the gangster-night club murder stories...
...Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...