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...Rap. The producers of this melodrama have concluded that, with Manhattan newspapers bearing tales of civic corruption on their front pages edition after edition, it is high time to have a play about crooked judges and police. In spite of its sensational and opportunistic motive, The Rap manages to be a pretty good crime play. It has to do with a lawyer and a reporter who are killed, one just as the spectators are getting their hats tucked under the seats. As the play continues its uneven but earnest way, it develops that someone with a cold hand has been...
...will also serve 18 months in jail (where he will be temporarily safe from sudden death). Already convicted on similar tax charges are Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might have done, at the express wish of Alphonse Capone, who felt that public opinion needed a little assuaging. For Scarface Al himself should have put in an appearance in Federal court last week to face tax evasion charges...
...packers) had announced that he would address the company's annual presidents' dinner held simultaneously in Chicago, Sioux City, New York, Oklahoma City, East St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Joseph, Omaha, Fort Worth, Kansas City. At 9 p. m., employes banqueting in all ten cities heard him rap the rostrum, speak to them by means of a sound cinema...
...Sometimes a staff of several men has been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy their desires...
...hand was placed on a table and a spectator was asked to choose a number and slowly count to it. When the number was reached the wax hand emphatically stopped the counting by a sharp rap...