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...like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife Mae, his brothers Ralph ("Bottles") and Matthew, tried desperately to live the life of a retired gentleman...
When, in December 1928, Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, mother of ten, was sent to jail for life for selling two pints of 'shine, there was such public outcry, within and without the State, against the severity of the law that the Legislature last year made changes which took liquor law violations out of the category of life offenses. For a fourth liquor offense the penalty was fixed at the term to which Governor Green has now reduced the sentences of the five "lifers...
...Mae Murray, flutter-footed cinemactress, sued Fox Theatres Corp., Peter Clark, Inc., Flatbush Ave. & Nevins St. Co. and William Fox Circuit of Theatres for $250,000, claiming that while dancing at the Fox Theatres (Brooklyn) last December her heel caught in a crack on the stage causing her to trip, fall, break a bone in the invaluable left foot of Mae Murray...
Divorced. William Ashley Sunday Jr., son of the hot-shouting evangelist; by Mrs. Julia Mae Sunday; at Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after him to avenge...