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...Broadway producers . . . take a backer's money, put on a show nobody wants to see and at a cost beyond all reason. When it flops they don't seem to mind. They just look around for another sucker and do another flop show. Do you realize that more than $1,000,000 has been thrown away so far this season on ... shoddy, flimsy, artificial trifles that even the producers themselves, in many cases, knew could never succeed? Who does it help to put on shows like that? Maybe the producer makes a quick profit...
...Broadway," is a Saroyanesque romance-a drama of strange but real little folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life...
Said Magistrate Solomon, holding Madzenski in $1,000 bail: "This is the most unique form of larceny I've ever encountered. But it goes to show that dishonesty in any form is still a sucker's game...
...five years the name W. Kennedy had been on the sucker lists of security salesmen who, finding the going too tough in the U. S. under SEC administration, had fled to Canada to sell their wallpaper mining stocks by long-distance telephone. Fortnight ago, W. Kennedy's turn came. The telephone in his Chicago office rang. He picked up the receiver. The conversation...
...Chicago Swindler Mike McDonald (not P. T. Barnum), says Author Asbury, who observed, "There's a sucker born every minute." During the four terms of Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., McDonald's casino was in effect the city hall, and Chicago's politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...