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...about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen in the Sixth Division of the 32nd ward turned out a full sheet of forgeries. One wrote 29 signatures and the other 15 all copied from the street list. But instead of signing the names...
Shelter is about a gang of outcasts residing under one of the New York bridges. A saintly hunchback is the central character, and a burly intruding kidnaper the principal flame of drama. It is inefficient...
...poor nuts'," continued the producer, who was a student at the University of Indiana, "are found in every college just as in every other walk of life. They are the inveterate members of the 'cellar gang' of college fraternities, the self-deprecating youths, who suffer from nothing other than the well known 'inferiority complex'. Ordinarily this is merely a stage through which the young man of average ability passes when he first comes into the realization that his early dreams of fame which are the common property of all youngsters, are not materializing. Usually he recovers after the first blow...
...From the very outset this has been nothing but a case of political persecution in retaliation for my investigation of Harry Daugherty and the 'Ohio gang' in the Department of Justice. The attempt of the Daugherty crowd to 'get' me started when I began the investigation that, by the weight of public opinion, drove Daugherty out of public life...
Unfortunately the story lost itself with the pearl king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination...