Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young...
...Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
When the public hears about Sing Sing Prison, at Ossining, N. Y., it is usually news of an escape or a sensational execution. But escapes are rare; only three of the 18 who have escaped since 1920 are still at large. And news of executions is sensationally inaccurate...
Every convict is assigned to at least one job. Warden Lawes tells of some difficulties in fitting the assignment to the convict's previous vocation. The skywriting aviator was "given a job painting the smokestacks and roofs; the prison warden was put in charge of the chickens; the radio-announcer was given a mop; the judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given...
...Significance. Warden Lawes does not believe in capital punishment. He would substitute life imprisonment for the electric chair. He has great faith in the well-run prison, for long terms or short. To the freed convict, he would have society give a more gentlemanly chance than it now does...