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...Taxi (Warner). If you have seen The Public Enemy, Smart Money or Blonde Crazy, you have some idea what to expect of Taxi. Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright are camera-minded writers and their stories, which usually deal in an offhand way with violent happenings, have speed, vigor and assurance. Fortunately for all concerned, James Cagney attracted Hollywood's attention at about the same time as Authors Bright and Glasmon. When he appears in one of their inventions the result is often brilliantly successful...
...Diamond and a few hangers-on lolled over a speakeasy table. "Legs" got up, lurched toward the door. "Gotta go see some of my newspaper pals," he said. "Stick around." Outside he told his taxi man: "Gotta see Marion. Gotta tell her how I got acquitted again." The taxi man drove him to a rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb...
Representatives from Harvard University, the Cambridge city government, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, and local taxi companies attended a special meeting in the Cambridge City Hall recently to discuss traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard...
...present dangerous conditions and sided on one hand with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the centre of the square and to prohibit the stopping for loading and unloading of all buses. Another group supported the Boston Elevated Company in its desire to remove the taxi stands from the space around the rotunda platform so that the company's busses could stop at the platform...
Nice touches include the contest editor's plan for a taxi race . . . "Just another way to kill a hundred people." One also likes the way the managing editor says, "How many dead...