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Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK...
Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK, CELEBRITY...
...RACKET-Police, bootleggers, easy virtue, guns, two deaths; Chicago in the rough...
Nowadays "racket" plays are pasted up by newspaper folk from clippings of their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably...
...RACKET-More recent gang war on a Chicago battlefield...