Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld" Offenbach *Minuet from the String Quintet Boccherini *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Introduction to Act III Wagner *Second Hungarian Rhapsedy Liszt Two Indian Dances Skilton Song with Orchestra--"Fallen-Leat" (Sioux Prayer Melody) Logan Chief Ho-To-Pi, Indian Tenor "Sipapu," Ritualistic Indian Dance Hadley Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Today the underworld fears and respects the "G" men, but the time must come when criminals and hardened gangsters will shudder at the very mention of Mr. Hoover and his cohorts. To cut down on the funds for this department would be to encourage crime and send a new wave of criminality to prey upon the public...
...Brown Eyes (Paramount) presents a new kind of cinematic criminology and a new Joan Bennett. The criminology revolves around a private detective who found a margin of profits in his employment as a liaison between insurance companies and the underworld, from which the companies were interested in recovering stolen gems to obviate payments to their clients. Morey (Walter Pidgeon) is the private detective of Big Brown Eyes, working with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment...
...bootlegging that used to net such rich spoils is practically extinct, and perpetual surveillance of the underworld has resulted in exceedingly slim pickings from the labor and gambling rackets, which were expected to be gangsters' gold-mines after Repeal. Consequently there is no motive left for murder and violence other than private vengeance, and even this form of amusement has grown unpopular among Chicago's mobdom owing to the tireless efforts of police authorities...
Last April Mayor Kelly began a campaign against all forms of underworld skullduggery; his determination and that of his subordinates has brought results. This drive has concentrated on illicit gambling dens, alky-cookers' work-shops, and blemishes on the face of society. Swift and inexorable action on the part of the law has taught Chicago criminals the wisdom of following Mr. Kipling's advice, and changing their spots. Faced with the loss of revenue from the bootlegging industry and vigorous destruction of other sources of income, the criminal, it seems, can be suppressed if not completely wiped out. Chicago hitherto...