Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a good anonymous tenor voice in the intervals when Emil Jannings makes gestures appropriate to singing, Der Grosse Tenor was exhibited in Manhattan last week at the UFA Cosmopolitan Theatre, hereafter to be used for other untranslated UFA products.* The Maltese Falcon (Warner). Author Dashiell Hammett, a onetime Pinkerton detective, improved the technique of horrifying readers by writing quick, unmannered prose and by making his characters tough as well as unscrupulous, appallingly bad as well as secretive. Some of the characters in the best-selling Maltese Falcon were too bad to be included in a cinema. Others-an adolescent...
...abandoned formal education in his first year of high school to be: a messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...
...week closed with no tangible progress visible in the investigation. It was disclosed that Pinkerton detectives had been called in to check up on the city's detectives...
Died. Allan Pinkerton, 54, horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard...
...Pinkerton detectives guarding Manhattan's practically completed Riverside Church last week straightened to attention, craftsmen made a show of their slow assiduity, as a small, stocky, energetic, bushy-haired, suntanned man-Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-walked with authoritative curiosity through the church nave and accessory rooms. A small group attended him on this his first inspection of the church since his regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church...