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...Smith, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1926, was fined $1,000 last week and sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for 15 months. He & friends had an automobile stealing racket in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Louisville...
...secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully expends sound and fury on the silent drama racket-with a cast which includes Richard Bennett and his daughter Joan (TIME...
Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released...
...afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...