Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From experience with Harvard men generally it would seem certain that graduates from prisons presided over by these "B. B. R's" will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...
...past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll's friend, but the picture should help kill the underworld's screen vogue...
That Scarface Al Capone was "rubbed out" by gangsters two years ago; that his halfbrother, Giacomo Calabrese, was then scarred by a plastic surgeon to resemble the dead chieftain and that Calabrese has since impersonated Capone as a figurehead for Gangster Johnny Torrio who really rules the underworld; that it was Calabrese who was arrested and jailed in Philadelphia in 1929; that not more than five gangsters were aware of the real Capone's death and the subsequent impersonation...
...which pictures of gangland portrayed the heroism and sterling tendency, according to the previews has been to depict the realities of the underworld. "The Secret Six", now playing at Loew's State follows the latter rule. The purpose of this production is to prove that the old adage that there is honor among thieves is all wrong...
...story of a man's rise from a $35-a-week job at a stockyard to the position of king of bootleggers and his subsequent descent from this lofty position to the death house forms the plot of this picture. Few if any of the underworld's methods of self-advancement could have been left out in the telling of this tale. Crossing and double-crossing are apparently part of the daily business of the gunman. Of course, and enterprising reporter is also woven, into the story and, as usual, is "put on the spot" when he "learns too much...