Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarface (United Artists?Howard Hughes) is a grisly, exciting gangster picture, based in part upon the career of Alphonse ("Scarface," "Snorkey") Capone. Its vicious hero, one Tony (Paul Muni), ingeniously wins the affection of a public enemy named Lovo (Osgood Perkins) by murdering his own superior. He then embarks upon a career of informal executions, becoming invaluable to Lovo and attractive to Lovo's Poppy (Karen Morley). Presently dissension occurs between Tony and Lovo. Tony wipes out Lovo and leaves for Florida with Poppy...
...himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When the prosecutor came to court with this proposal. Judge Wilkerson indignantly quashed it (TIME, Aug. 10). Brought to trial, "Snorkey" Capone received an eleven-year penitentiary term and a $50,000 fine (TIME. Oct. 26). He still languishes in Cook County jail waiting final appeal...
Least disappointed in the end was Walter J. Salmon. His horse won the race. Held up in Chicago, robbed of his shiny expensive sedan and wallet containing $22, Lawyer Albert Fink of Chicago, counsel for Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone, pleaded with the gunmen for money to get home...
...Snorkey's 235-lb. body seemed to lose weight as he stood before the bar. Finally he got down his coughdrop, smiled weakly at his attorneys, Michael Ahern & Albert Fink. Up stepped Messrs. Ahern & Fink, pleaded for leniency. Said the judge: "I think I will adhere to my ruling." Then he ordered Capone to jail "forthwith." The lawyers filed notice of appeal...
...Sighed Snorkey: "Well, pal, I'm going on a long journey...