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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed...
...looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami at no man's behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send...
Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace...
This vivid expose of gambling dens and brothels, with their picaresque inmates, falls short of melodrama without losing excitement. The faithful account of all the greatest gang leaders sometimes runs to a monotony of horrors, but is soon varied with naive tong wars, and prosperous "fences"-fat women who bought and sold the loot of robbers...
...Certain Young Man. Made two years ago, this film has just been released from cold storage. Ramon Novarro starts out with a monocle, a mustache, a high hat, a wife (Renee Adoree). In short, he is a smart Englishman. For the love of a U. S. girl (Marceline Day) he throws away the above accoutrements and woos her in the accepted manly fashion. The film should have remained in cold storage...