Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HIDDEN DOOR-Frank L. Packard -Crime Club ($2). A detective fictionist searches the underworld to find who killed his gangland schoolmate...
...fable of true love in Manhattan between a hat check girl (Sally Eilers) and a millionaire's son (Ben Lyon). Finding this theme thin as well as improbable, it pads itself out with winter sports scenes, night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting her fingers and looking wan, tries...
Called the second-best pistol shot- and most vicious killer in Chicago's underworld, he had gone "gun crazy," began returning the fire of imaginary killers on empty streets...
...people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring were snakes. The Hopi drove the snake children into the desert. They returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from the Hopi. Year after year corn withered on its stalk. Finally the Hopi sent out scouts to gather all the snakes they could find. They washed the snakes, made them the centre of a religious ritual and sent them away...
Salvatore ("Salvy") Spitale, engaged by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh as an underworld go-between during the kidnap negotiations, was arrested in a Manhattan speakeasy for carrying a loaded pistol, discharged next day because he had a permit from a rural county...