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...much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary and the poachers would be kinder...
...merit system proved itself early in the game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
...this time John Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime...
...minutes the chief warden came through the gate and posted a notice on the prison door. One by one the waiting crowd filed by to read: "The judgment of death has been executed...
...Universal) adds another to the staggering total of prison breaks screen convicts have made from Hollywood jails. Though "the technical adviser on break scenes" in this film was a paroled former convict, the picture is chiefly interesting because Victor McLaglen plays a warden with a larcenous streak and a guilty conscience; Edward Brophy plays a sly trusty who finds the warden out; and Master Jackie Cooper successfully continues his graduation out of short pants into juveniles...