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...gross profits of the slots, calculated at $600 per machine a year, brought in an annual profit of $3,000,000. But in 1934. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...
...Kanin has been very fortunate in the actors he has obtained for the roles of Helen Brown and Gus Hammer, the saxophone player. Betty Field has the part of the embittered young "model," as she calls herself, and she is wonderful in the part. Miss Field is unexcelled in the business of naturalistic acting and no matter how tough she talks she is still the substance of feminity. Barry Nelson as Gus Hammer, is also very good, with his half-articulate gestures, his rocking stance, and his fresh enthusiasm...
...Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By the time all the chips had fallen, Roussil had an impressionistic piece sculptured in the totemic form: a father standing in front of a kneeling mother holding a child. He called it Family Group...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...