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...LOEW'S STATE AND ORPHEUM...
Easily the most arresting offering of the in-town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching...
System of the syndicate was simple and efficient. Every Sunday or Monday each prostitute would telephone her booker who would tell her at which "house" she was to spend the following week. Girls were shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...Loew's State and Orpheum...
...second picture at the Orpheum is "The Lady of Secrets," starring Ruth Chatterton and released with the comment that it is a "throbbing love story of a gallant lady who defied the tragedy of her past...