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...week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert. On it was written: "My pal, Teddy. Killed in a fatal accident...
...Benjamin Leiner, a skinny little Semite with a pallid, solemn face, had his first professional prizefight. Five years later he won the lightweight championship of the world by technically knocking out Freddie Welsh. In 1924, after a fight with Pal Moran in which he hurt his right hand but retained his championship, he retired. Said he: "My mother does not want me to fight any more...
...Beudard, now mayor of a provincial French town but once a rover who murdered for money, is confronted with a man whom he thinks he recognizes as his old crony in crime. He is all ready to leave the country when he discovers the man is not his old pal after all, heaves a sigh, goes on being mayor...
...Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last bad blonde is a stoolpigeon, is James Cagney (Public Enemy...
University--"The Last Parade" Jack Holt in the role of a racketeer, who rather than plug his pal takes...