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...Vegas. The natives are marched to church by club-wielding wardens, bronzed maidens must be fully clothed at all times, and boys and girls who go swimming together are flogged. In this unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle rustlers. One notably effective scene: the missionary's amazed and humble discovery that the natives will come to church without being driven by the wardens' clubs, simply because they want to pray...
...walking and lugging, say the cilindreros, it is not a bad life. They get food at many kitchen doors in exchange for their music. They can usually make a deal at the saloon. And many a pretty lady's maid has succumbed to such seductive boleros as Even If You Kill Me, I Love You. Says Hurdy-Gurdy Man Angeles Reyes: "My cilindro gives me food, pulque and love." The tourist bureaus, hotelkeepers and the poor all agree that motorized Mexico must save a place for the strolling cilindrero if the country is to keep its soul...
...father owned and operated the best hotel and saloon in Butte, Mont., and Leslie Bechtel grew up there. "I think I could play poker before I could read or write." Bechtel went to school with copper miners' children who were sent down into the pits when they were 14. Growing up, he decided to be a lawyer and do something about such social injustice...
Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah...
Baby & Brothel. The Item got started on its story in February when a dark, mustached man named Jack Richter came to the city room on Union Street with a tip. Richter said that he knew of a saloon being used as a front for a brothel, where prostitutes were caring for a homeless baby who had been left on the bar. Next day the Item guided police on a raid and front-paged the story of the baby and arrest of four prostitutes and the brothel keeper. Richter then told the Item that he could supply other information. Richter...