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...right. The idea is one of those really comic inspirations whose single disadvantage is that they can never be made quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism...
...criminal. The only charge that I know of, or any law abiding authorities know of, is of my being charged with vagrancy. "I have been feeding between 2,500 and 3,000 people daily in Chicago for the last fix months. If this is the act of a vagrant, I want to be classed as one. I leave the American people to judge between General Butler and myself. I am satisfied to abide by their verdict." If Citizen Capone had forgotten another old charge against him Judge Wilkerson of Chicago's Federal Court had not. Summoned before a Federal...
...maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
Last week before the bar of justice in Chicago stood Jack Guzik, notorious gangster, payoff man for Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. The charge was "vagrancy," a legal excuse conceived by Judge John H. Lyle who issued warrants for 26 "vagrant" Chicago thugs and thereby received national publicity (TIME, Oct. 13). The State set out to show that "Vagrant" Guzik had no visible livelihood...
...defense was simple. Mr. Guzik, it argued, was not a "vagrant." He was a gambler. Do not Vice President Curtis and Governor Emmerson both attend race meetings? May it not be presumed that they make wagers at the race tracks? Did not Gambler Guzik own a fine home not a block away from State's Attorney Swanson's? Why, so far from being a reprehensible "vagrant," Mr. Guzik was a "credit" to the community. After brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "That's fine!" cried Mr. Guzik. "I knew you gentlemen would...