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...Warden Lawes has been the fatherly director of Sing Sing Prison for 17 years. In all these years the Warden has kept not only a steady hand and an open heart, but a warm and sympathetic literary point of view which produced in 1932 a non-fiction best-seller called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. Not until he collaborated on Chalked Out, however, had Warden Lawes undertaken to rattle the cup dramatically on his 2,500 punks, wolves and right guys...
...matter of statistics, only two men have successfully escaped from Sing Sing since Warden Lawes has been there. He does not damage that record in Chalked Out, but neither has he enhanced his literary record with a show whose melodramatic iconoclasms will doubtless fare better in the films...
Another case was that of a swindler, Neil, who succeded in getting his jailer to have a few drinks while Neil was being taken east, got him then to go to a burlesque show, after which the evening wound up by Neil putting the warden to bed. The convict was next heard of when he posed as a movie actor and made a personal appearance in New Orleans...
...Warden King, a onetime insurance salesman who works part time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that will help conserve ducks, and I'll stop at the post office on my way back and buy the stamp...
...potent a citizen as Motorman Walter P. Chrysler was last autumn fined in Federal Court for failing to have his duck stamp on his hunting license (TIME, Nov. 9). But when Chaplain Phillips revealed the identity of his ignorant companion, Warden King tipped his hat. "I'll take your word for it, sir," said he, and respect fully rowed away...