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When De Sapio seized the leadership of Tammany Hall in 1949, he found himself in command of a rotten, rat-infested political hulk. From its days of corrupted power, Tammany stank. It exacted a heavy price in public money and civic decency for a service. To New York, as to many another U.S. city in the period 1820-1920, came immigrants by the thousands and by the tens and hundreds of thousands-Irish driven by famine, Italians by population pressures, Jews by persecutions. These were not all or mostly the brave or the gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless...
Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills a red-eyed rat, even though he has to knock over the crib and dump the baby on the floor...
...Hewlett went into the Depression-years theater. When he had a job it was usually with GEORGE ABBOTT, Damn Yankees' director. Actor Hewlett played bits and served as Abbott's assistant stage director in Boy Meets Girl, toured coast-to-coast with the Brother Rat road show, understudying Tom Ewell, current Broadway star. In Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Hewlett portrayed a newsman...
Died. Constance Collier, 77, versatile dramatic actress, cinemactress (Kitty, Wee Willie Winkie), playwright (coauthor: The Rat, Down Hill), producer (Camille, Happy Families), author (Harlequinade) and dramatic coach (pupils: Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...