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...with one hand trying to lock up a man for his felonies and with the other hand trying to collect a good income tax out of the fruits of his felonies. . . . To top it off, Capone pleads guilty both ways; so while Mr. Mitchell edges him up to the jail, Mr. Mellon halts him at the door to make a thrifty touch for the Capone liquor income tax. Capone may get a little of what is coming to him for his curious code of ethics, but is Uncle Sam's code of ethics any less peculiar than Capone...
...custody in which Brother Svetozar Pribichevich languished was peculiar. He was not in jail, but in a hospital. He did not particularly mind being in a hospital. What enraged all the Pribicheviches was the Government's announced resolve to banish Brother Svetozar Pribichevich for a second time to the tiny Serbian village of Brus, 20 miles from the nearest railway. When told last week that he would be sent back to Brus, Svetozar Pribichevich, a small, lean man, dramatically went on a hunger strike. Wailed Mme Bosilka Pribichevich: "My Svetozar will die! He will die!" "Svetozar," cried Col. Milan...
From a world quick to conclude that Art had been insulted, came expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich...
...Angel (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding had too much respect for the story he had to tell, perhaps because he wrote it himself. It concerned a public prosecutor who befriends a pretty waif after he has caused her mother, a jolly old woman with bad connections, to be put in jail. Having befriended, he falls in love with her, kills a beer garden malefactor who mistreats her and is put on trial for murder. The waif gives the testimony which causes a jury to free...
...Conference. That left Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Wilson in charge of the State with all the powers and privileges of a chief executive. One of his first official acts was to pardon his brother Fred, convicted last March of grand larceny and awaiting formal sentence of four years in jail...