Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed...
Died. "Big" Arthur Callen, of Philadelphia, veteran racketeer; in West Philadelphia; shot with six soft-nosed bullets by an unidentified gunman. Racketeer Callen who usually wore a bullet-proof vest and travelled in an armored car, was apparently spotted* before dawn, defenseless. In his apartment police found a rifle with silencer, a shot gun, an acetylene torch, nitroglycerine, six pair of canvas gloves and opium equipment...
...play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot which once seemed original...
...Parade." Alibi (United Artists) is more credible than most crook pictures. Director Roland West makes it move fast by spacing dialog with pantomime. Chester Morris gives a valid interpretation of a young man who. in the beginning, comes out of jail a gunman, and in the end goes back, still a gunman, because he cannot prove that-he was in the theatre with a policeman's daughter at the moment-when a detective was murdered. Worst shot-prolonged death of the detective. Best sound shot- liquor gurgling out of a carafe...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...