Articles
Technology: The Many Pleasures Of Payne
"As surely as a bullet rips through a victim's flesh ... it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger." Not bad, right? It could pass for Raymond...
CRIME: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
According to one popular notion, the Mafia gang war in New York City is a quick, convenient and highly effective method of crime control. Mobsters slaying...
Chicago: Gang War
"Mighty Blackstone Rangers" brags the challenge scrawled across the walls and barred store windows of Chicago's South Side slums. A loosely organized army...
Cinema: Funny Smell
COAST TO COAST Directed by Joseph Sargent Screenplay by Stanley Weiser Fashions in movie genres hit Hollywood in successive waves of benign silliness. Remember...
Cinema: Mortuary Case
99 AND 44/100% DEAD Directed by JOHN FRANKENHEIMER Screenplay by ROBERT DILLON Why quibble? Call it 100% Dead and be done with it. Indeed, the cute title,...
GREAT BRITAIN: Gunfire in The Smoke
London's bobbies traditionally go about their duties armed at most with truncheons. In a kind of underworld version of old-school-tie sportsmanship, the...
MIDDLE EAST: Gathering Clouds
Along the jagged, lawless Arab-Israeli frontier, the political gang war went on in rising fury. In Jordan, Arabs buried their dead66 men. women & children...
The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928
Gang War. Whatever may be Willard Mack's inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the...
Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 26, 1927
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS MAX REINHARDT'S SEASON The great German master lends alien...
Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928
Homecoming. If you were told that this picture tells of the return of two soldiers, one married and one unmarried, and how the unmarried one gets home first and...
