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Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...squealer" is a thief who betrays thieves. The squealer about whom Author Wallace has written is also a receiver of stolen goods; when a robber refuses the meagre price which he offers for purloined bonds or jewels, the squealer tells the police on him. This is an insult rather than an injury to the police. The wily foxes who play in Scotland Yard resent the squealer's impudently informative gratuities. Especially, one Detective Barrabal who "stroked his silky moustache ... with half-closed eyes. 'Squealer,' he said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises...
...interesting to note in relation to the problem of meting out justice to an offender, and in connection with the sentiment so easily aroused by any significant electrocution, that the banks of Texas have found it effective and expedient to put a premium on summary punishment for bank robbers. Five thousand dollars for a dead bank robber, but not a cent for a live one! The arrangement in Texas seems effective and popular, but distinctly pragmatical...
...came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff of the city, linked themselves up with certain robber bands from the country districts. "The movement, which was reported as frankly Communistic, was led by Russians. . . . For 48 hours the city was given over to general looting and large sections were burned. "Troops were rushed back to Canton and succeeded in crushing the rabble revolt about 11 a.m. on the morning...
Surrender followed. In ominous silence, the guards lined up their charges and took the roll. Six haggard men-Tony Brown and two burglars, a murderer, a forger, a robber-went to dark cells to await trial for murder. Grilling began to discover who else had carried the score or more weapons collected, who had smuggled in Convict Brown's gun and a hatful of ammunition. Governor Young returned to Sacramento and Folsom Prison to bitter routine...