Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed...
...afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives her a drink, then kicks her from behind. The picture grows a little less lively toward the end. Knowing that Nick trusts all blondes, the police...
...Chicago, one Walter Lang was arrested because he stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...
Dour, red-haired Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (real name Plumpe-murnau) was born in 1889, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
Died. Lon Chancy, 47, cinemactor, (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three) famed portrayer of the grotesque; after a series of illnesses which included an attack of pneumonia, a throat-operation; of anemia, following three transfusions, at Hollywood...