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...companion piece shows Miriam Hopkins in an unusual role. As "Temple Drake" she wallows through a muck of William Faulkener situations with a drunken Southern boy, captured by gangsters, fascinated with the gang leader Trigger, ably played by William LaRue, she runs the gamut of degradation and disgrace to show you that the Southern girl at nineteen is dangerous, inbred, and crawling with complexes...
...book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena the gangster, Trigger, in a trial for the murder of one of his underlings, Temple tries to leave, shoots Trigger for trying to stop her. When she tells all this on the witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema...
...shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
...most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over Ty Ty went on digging for gold...
...brother of Puppeteer Remo Bufano, was born in Italy about 1890, went to New York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ is minus a trigger finger...