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Within a few hours of each other, one evening early this week, two western kidnapping cases came to happy endings. Found in the desert near Tucson, Ariz, three weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly...
...sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer-baron (Spencer Tracy), onetime leader of their gang, whom they have helped send to prison because of his reluctance to be a "snatcher" as well as a 'legger, gets paroled to track them down. Neatly circumventing the Hays organization's antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would be an even more satis factory revival if it did not revive also such details of the old gangster picture formula as characterization...
...Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert...
...Editor Shively's point: "As everyone knows, the modern banker is not the mere money lender and interest snatcher of days gone by. The Wall Street bank, in particular, is as much an industrial institution as it is a bank ... a vast social enterprise as well. . . . National City must have at its head a man who thoroughly understands industrial problems...
...delicate matter of arranging interments is in the hands of the Cathedral Executive Committee, who are empowered to accept no more than one person a year. For his interest in arranging such matters, Bishop Freeman has been called, with the sometimes startling jocularity of high churchmen, "The Body-Snatcher...