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...Rome last week able New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews somehow procured (he would not say where) and published Filippelli's 20-year-old photostat. The confession had been paraphrased in part in George Seldes' Sawdust Caesar. Matthews reported the full text...
Thus last week did angry Stanley Hubbard, boss of Minneapolis radio station KSTP, salute the latest impudence of cocky, stocky James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the American Federation of Musicians...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...
Susan spends her time being mad about English traditions. She leaps like a mating 'salmon when she hears the word "baronet." Then she bumps into one named Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), complete with a family ghost. Sir John is eager to squire her Down Roman roads where Caesar's legions marched, And follow Chaucer's steps to Canterbury...
...Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line. Much later the furtive wink of smugglers' lamps enlivened coastal life, put money in the pockets of those who cared to lend a hand to circumvent the King...