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...cute trick for booming a rising young star in his first picture. The credits for the film begin by listing all the established stars, and then add at the end the by-now hallowed phrase, "and introducing Abuer Yokum." It was used when Deanna Durbin, Veronica Lake, and John Garfield were "introduced" to cinema audiences. If there's any good luck charm attached to tacking a new star's name on at the end, instead of at the beginning of his starting venture, it has proved its validity in Paramount's "introduction" of Alan Ladd in "This Gun For Hire...
CITY LAWYER-Arthur Garfield Hays -Simon & Schuster...
Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays exists as an emergency telephone number in the mind of nearly every U.S. radical in trouble with the law. For he is a "chronic, old-fashioned liberal," and his favorite pets are underdogs. Hays has another telephone number: he is also a shrewd attorney with a penchant for plunking the mandolin out of office hours...
...Arthur Garfield Hays's first important run-in with the law was almost his last. In 1917, while Hays was busy being a Red Cross collection agent in the West, his partners, who were then lawyers for the New York Evening Mail, submitted a report to the Alien Property Custodian showing an investment of $100,000 in the Mail by one Sielcken, an enemy alien. The Government claimed that the Mail was receiving German gold. Kaufmann and Lindheim were sentenced to a year in jail, and disbarred. Hays, however, came through unscratched...
Engineer Mencken begins with Arthur Gooch, hanged in 1936 for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and works back along the rope to the Haymarket anarchists; to Charles Julius Guiteau, who shot President Garfield; to the Molly Maguires, the Irish miners who terrorized the Pennsylvania coal fields; to John Wilkes Booth's accomplices, including Mary Surratt, first woman ever hanged in the U.S. He also includes British body-snatcher William Burke, who added a wrinkle to the illicit business of selling bodies for medical dissection by creating his own corpses, and added a verb to the English language...