Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis--"Tenth Avenue," 8.20 o'clock. Crooks, melodrama and the New York underworld...
Nightstick. Again the underworld wars with the police; and again the police get both their man and the girl. In a misguided moment this young woman marries a killer, who kills enough people to give Detective Thomas Glennon reason to undertake his extermination. The fact that Mr. Glennon also loves the lady adds impetus. Out of all this grows another of the violent melodramas with which every theatrical season teems. But there is the favorable novelty that Nightstick is vividly acted, shamelessly incredible, and eminently exciting from the disordered, menacing beginning to the inevitably honeyed...
...Underworld. In the smelly, slinky alleyways of the Chicago tenderloin, the all-round criminal championship is held by "Bull" Weed (George Bancroft), hulking thug, notable for his wide-open laugh & easy-going gun. Only Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler), who operates a florist's shop in the daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning...
...Loop. One might say of him as has been said of Jack London--he was a man, thus leaving gradations of value quite unnoticed. At any rate he has managed to gather enough votes to come through the winner. Congratulations are in order for him, for the Illinois underworld--in fact for everybody but the people of Chicago...
...service. For 23 years he has been equipping himself. He began as private secretary to Ambassador Choate at the Court of St. James's. He served in Peking. He accepted demotion in order to return to Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department underworld." He soon became chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. President Taft, aware of his abilities, sent him back to London (where his career had begun) to the duties of Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid being in ill health. President Wilson, aware, made him Assistant Secretary of State during...