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...hours guards & police fired pistols, shotguns, machine guns at the factory windows. The three convicts returned the fire. As their ammunition began to run low, failure stared at them. They forced one of the guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...
...with a weather-beaten face, two pistols in his belt and two nephews, similarly armed, at his elbows. They appeared first at the Grand Hotel. The proprietor made no resistance but sent a frightened chambermaid scurrying from room to room to warn the guests to lock their doors and window shutters, stay inside...
...Brown Mehard Griffith, of Sewickley. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, was found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...
...give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken to jail. She says good-bye to the young Jew (William Collier Jr.) who lives on the ground floor...
...suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house, it is too far away to show the people clearly. Like the play, the cinema enjoys the advantages of brilliant acting, especially that of Beulah Bondi as an Irish hag whose loose...