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...seven years, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around certain poolrooms, bars, candy stores where idle young hoodlums gathered to swagger, play the slot machines, a sinister kind of talent had been for sale at bargain prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to "removing" a State's witness, killing stool pigeons and underworld rivals. The killers worked for small pay: Pretty Levine, who told reporters he joined the gang at the age of 13, confessed he took part in the Sage killing for a net profit of one dollar...
...E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns, and they preach sermons and they is taken up with the spiritual side of life. Then over on the left here is the goats. . . . Among them I see gamblers, a couple of cake...
Bethel Merriday is a distinctly better book, and its comparative goodness may be instructive to historians of Sinclair Lewis' career. With a talent that has more hop on the ball than nine or ten ordinary writers, Lewis wrote his memorable novels not when he had a "good idea" but when parts of the U. S. social scene stirred him to sardonic, passionate-and first-hand-study. Arrowsmith is a classic example, and it is with Arrowsmith that Bethel Merriday may be fairly compared...
...Algiers, shortly before his sensational trial for pederasty, Oscar Wilde said to French Novelist Andre Gide: "Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life-I have put only my talent into my works." Like many another Wilde wisecrack-Biographer Winwar believes-that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England...
...great mansion which is pervaded by the ever-lingering memory of her new husband's mysteriously drowned first-wife. The direction of Alfred Hitchcock very nearly matches up to "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes," but the plot of "Rebecca" is not as ideally suited to his talent for sustained mystery. Too much coincidence detracts from the force of the plot, especially when the youthful heroine barely escapes being hypnotized into suicide by Rebecca's devoted housekeeper. Within thirty seconds of film time, the audience finds itself in the middle of the next day having discovered the clue which...