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...tough boy led into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until his bullet-spattered body is dumped in front of his mother's house. His more sentimental pal, Edward Woods, provides a milder development of the same theme. The Public Enemy is well-told and its intensity is relieved by scenes of the central characters slugging bartenders and slapping their women across the face. U. S. audiences, long trained by the Press to glorify thugs, last week laughed loudly...
Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic shrieked its loudest in great front-page streamers: ROTHSTEIN MURDER CLUE BARED BY VIVIAN'S PAL, and 20 MEN OWED VI $100,000; DIARY REVEALS LOVE RING...
Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation...
...there anything wrong? Perhaps you have come under the influence of an older socialist. Or perhaps you have just become disillusioned? If so, perhaps I could help you reorganize your spiritual life. As we used to say at Clover hill. I am always more than glad to lend a pal a hand. Sincerely...
...Vagabond does not necessarily endorse printed or unprinted communications, but nevertheless receives the rebuke in the spirit in which it is offered. There is indeed something indescribably moving about this solicitude shown on the part of one who has so aptly described himself as a "Pal...