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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the late John Dillinger, Al Brady is an Indiana bad boy who got in trouble young, was let out of jail on parole. Also like Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record...
...year ago all four Brady gangsters were in jail, indicted for murder. They secured a change of venue which transferred three of them to the county jail at Greenfield, Ind. There last October they clubbed Sheriff Clarence Watson, made a daylight escape. Linked to them last April was a $11,400 bank robbery at Farmland...
...officers and police from four States were out in force after the Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
During the war Browder served a term in jail for his opposition to America's entry. In the 1920's he was active in the Chinese Communist movement. He is now a member of the executive committee of the Third International and General Secretary of the Communist party...
...trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus is that Room Service will be notable for long life as well as long laughs...