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...exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit. Her young man (Wallace Ford) finds out about the crookery in time to catch...
...Babylon, L. I. police found May Hardy, 38, A. E. F. trained nurse, starving in a maple grove on a private estate. For two weeks she had slept on a bundle of old rags and papers. She was penniless...
...Flushing, L. I. William Henry Joseph Tubbs, 32, jobless & penniless, was ordered from his wife's parents' home when a bad check charge was about to overtake him. Before he disappeared, he killed his six-year-old son asleep in a crib...
...wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That fixes that. She finds the other daughter in love...
...hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear was that homeward-bound veterans, hungry, penniless, desperate, would form roving bands which would prey upon the countryside...