Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...Hatchet Man (First National). So convincingly did Edward G. Robinson perform in Little Caesar and Smart Money that he, rather than Alphonse Capone or the late John ("Legs") Diamond, has become the prototype of the U. S. gangster. When cinemaddicts read of the doings in the underworld, they form an immediate picture of Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco...
...fourth largest industry in America has long treasured the erroneous idea that George Bancroft is a "mighty star." Years ago he appeared with Evelyn Brent in a thing called "Underworld" which was undeniably good, but that was a long time ago. Since then he has shouldered his way along, smashing chairs, threatening women, killing men with his fists, breaking banks, and appearing in movies with such robust titles as "The Wolf of Wall Street." He has become very much of a ham actor. In his last work, hailed as a mighty picture by a mighty star, the producers have made...
...with the unfinished manuscript for The Public Enemy, then called Blood & Beer, which they had already tried to sell to Manhattan theatrical producers. Glasmon, a onetime druggist who says he used to own stores in Chicago, is short, soft-voiced, stocky. He has a wide knowledge of Chicago's underworld, admits that "Glasmon" is a nom-de-plumc, saves newspaper clippings of criminal happenings, like the hero of Blonde Crazy. Bright is younger, larger. He says he used to work for a Chicago newspaper. Glasmon, who recently applied for citizenship, is single, Bright is married. Both are known, in what...
...Cardinal Hayes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bishop William Thomas Manning, Manhattan's Committee of Fourteen (antivice) declared the Depression is forcing many young women "either directly into prostitution or at least into borderline occupations from which the ranks of prostitution are most generally recruited," and that the underworld is ''taking advantage of this situation...