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...their white friends, and one extraneous Chinese. Two Tongmen were arrested in Chicago, one Yee Haim, ex-national president of the Hip Sings in Pittsburgh, two in San Francisco, and two-Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared to be tangent to an even more notorious crime ring. One of the four women caught by the Narcotics Department's dragnet was Mary de Bello whose husband, Thomas ("Tommy the Bull") Pennachio, is currently serving a 25-year sentence...
...roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld. She escapes, hunts up Uncle Domitien. Gomar pursues and reclaims her-but not before she and Domitien have fallen in love- kills Domitien, and in the man hunt that follows is killed himself. The end is long-drawn-out, slightly platitudinous, with Domitien's wife and Karelina united...
After the war, Miss George marries Mr. Tone but does not realize in what manner he makes his money until told by Mr. Tracy, who thinks she is responsible for his friend's underworld life. Thereupon Miss George has her husband arrested and makes him take the rap for his own good, living under Mr. Tracy's protection in the meantime. Mr. Tone wants to get back to his wife, however, and escapes from prison. When he wants Miss George to dodge cops with him, Mr. Tracy steps in, tells his friend he, too, loves Miss George, and refuses...
...Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby, Academy President Alfred G. B. Steel last week had scaffolding put up around...
King of Gamblers (Paramount). A newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) and a nightclub singer (Claire Trevor) unraveling some fascinating underworld homicides perpetrated by Akim Tamiroff...