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...Held by police for questioning in connection with two murders while a member of Brooklyn's Five Points Gang. Dismissed...
...election night in Chicago. No one had been killed in Chicago all day. In the Mayor's office at City Hall gathered a noisy, sweaty crowd of jobholders, petty politicians and hangers-on?the Thompson Gang. Waiters brought them heaping trays of food & drink. Free cigars were chewed and waved. Backs were violently slapped, greetings bellowed. The sour grey air vibrated with the full blare of a brass band. In the centre of the boisterous human pack stood beefy, bloodshot Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, He was in his shirtsleeves. His flushed face was damp. His eyes bulged with...
...Gang's All Here. Artist Russell Patterson designed the costumes, Oscar Hammerstein II helped the direction, Colyumist Russel Grouse wrote the book, Tilly Losch staged the ballet. The cast includes: luscious Gina Malo (Sons O' Guns); red-headed Zelma O'Neal (Good News); silly Ruth Tester (Second Little Show); the white-faced team of Shaw & Lee, droll Tom Howard and ingratiating Ted Healy. And seldom has wealth been more hopelessly, tastelessly squandered...
...book, which begins to relate the stalking of Mr. Howard by a gang of gunmen at Atlantic City,, suddenly goes insanely askew. Tom? Howard has an hilarious conversation with a ghost, but the show's few genuinely good moments are supplied by a hitherto unknown young man named Hal Le Roy whose tapdancing is peerless. None of the music, none of the gags, save The Gang's All Here from being a pretty waste of money...
...recall once when we were gathered around Lord Riddell, who was British press liaison officer, a British correspondent asked Riddell what was the nature of the new organization called Fascists in Italy. Riddell said: 'Oh, so far as I know, just a gang of roughs.' Mussolini was on the outskirts of the group and glared at Riddell. Someone jogged Riddell's arm and whispered that the chief of the Fascists was there. Riddell looked disconcerted and added: 'But I suppose they are all right in their...