Show Edw G G. Plans To Stay in Straight Roles HOLLYWOOD tP Edward rEdward Edward G G. Robinson that tough guy from the movies' movies era of or gangster pictures has been going straight these many reels now What's more even If it the news now contains an occasional i Item m about 1 hijacking ja king and other r reminiscent doings In Inthe inthe the liquor scarcity he expects to tobe tobe tobe be allowed to continue the ways of or virtue In other words Little Caesar is confident confident- that It cant can't happen here not here not again I believe we as asa asa asa a nation are too smart now to let Jet it happen again he said For a fellow tellow whose movie Career career career ca ca- reer began In a thunder r of or racketeering racketeering racketeering rack rack- gunfire In stories concerning concerning concerning con con- the great crime wa wave va of or orthe the Robinson lately has be been n doing strange things Hes He's an insurance company detective in Double Indemnity tracking down murderers Hes He's a hero in n Destroyer and in Tampico In his Beverly Hills home a beautiful and important haven for such treasures as works of or Cezanne Degas Renoir Corot RouaUlt Bonnard and many other painters Robinson reminisced reminisced reminisced remi remi- about the gangster age And he viewed but with no alarm the future Consider he said the contributing contributing contributing con con- con con- factors to that era First the economic b background After the last war r returning turning soldiers and workers alike found themselves caught in a tremendous depression And then there was prohibition prohibition- inviting the economic economically lly desperate desper desper- ate Into an Illegal business to make a living Jiving Since liquor was an outlaw outlaw outlaw out out- law business It had its own codes and own methods of or law enforcement enforce enforce- ment within ment within Its gangs with rival gangs The country's morale I Iwas was low Th There r was disillusionment disillusionment disillusionment disillusion disillusion- ment cynicism and respect for forlaw forlaw forlaw law broke down downy But we as a nation are much smarter nowadays he went on ment Management labor Jabor and government government government govern govern- ment are all concerning themselves with postwar problems Last time we were in the war too short a time this this e-this this time well we'll have been nr X Xa a azz vs n V w 4 xa xan f aV r n 3 y PT ry r f fL L s Y 1 Edward G G. G Robinson Little Caesar believes believe that never again will America experience such a crime wave as flourished during the prohibition era in longer lost more sacrificed I more and gained in understanding Our boys in this war are temperamentally temperamentally temperamentally tem tem- and psychologically more advanced than the boys of the last Then there ther was no program pro program pro pro- I gram of or education for them other than military training Robinson Whose personal In Interest interest interest in- in terest In liquor is very slight Is confident that there will be no return to that unnatural unenforceable unenforceable unenforceable hw which he is sure contributed heavily to crime and |