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About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...
...Hell & Maria! I would have paid horse prices for sheep if the sheep could have pulled artillery to the front...
...Government Printing Office's official text of the hearing, which became a ''best-seller" overnight, Gen. Dawes's profanity was carefully deleted. But newspaper reports of "the phrase which closed an epoch" were virtually unanimous in giving "Hell & Maria." Apparently he exploded the phrase more than once...
...Hell & Maria! We weren't trying to keep a set of books, we were trying...