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Show PAGE SEVEN THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH Tuesday, April IX, 1950 PICKPOCKET SCHOOL inXLinGS Cy l:rvJ3 Crook Acts In Dual Role LONDON, ENGLAND. Jona- than Wild was a man who worked both sides of the street. . dictator of Londons underworld, he ran a stolen goods business so big that he had to open a branch office. As courts, he was of justice, with a semiofficial position and a recprd of capturing more thieves than any London policeman. Quite a character, this Wild. His wife was attended by a liveried footman. He swaggered in a sword and ruffles. Honest people gave him a check on the take" of his underling crooks. Honest magistrates hanged his rivals. He may have been the first person in history to endow a school of etiquette for pickpockets. Quite a lad. Until they hanged him. Creature of Underworld In the criminal an ardent champion . ACCUSED ENTERS COURT. . . Alice Richard, high school girl charged with the "hate slaying of her twin, Sally, enters Fresno, Calif., juvenile court accompanied by probation officers. After a brief Wild was a creature of the roistering London underworld of the early 18th century, a fetid, gin sodden sewer, teeming with the lost, "Don't you have a cheaper brand of rice? some for a wedding." STAR DUST the desperate and the vicious. He himself was bom in the provhearing behind closed doors, juvenile judge Arthur Shepard decided the inces and was a Journeyman buccase would be handled by juvenile court. The girl, who says she killed kle maker until he deserted his her sister because she hated her, was to be examined by psychiatrists, wife and child to go to the big city. the judge ruled. His arrival there was inauspicious and he might have lived his life By INEZ GERHARD out in anonymity, poor but dishonKATHLEEN NORRIS est, except for two happenings. ROBERT YOUNG and his were supposed to be The first was: He was tossed into in New York after he scabious In the debt. for vacationing prisjail ons of that day, debtors more or finished Ellen, for United Artists less innocent mingled with crimi- release. But he was so busy that JII7HAT ARE WE TO DO with a of the little-gir- l panic of 10 years nals of the most hardened charac- they had to sandwich celebrating girl of 19 who for two years their 17th wedding anniversary in ter. ago. has defied all home authority? Wild stayed in prison four years. between engagements. In a hotel I wont dwell on my own heartwrites Lanna Lawson from Minnean education, a caHer father and I have break and shame, but simply give There he got apolis. and her father stubreer and a wife, the last a lady of tried prayer, coaxing, scolding, ad- facts. Janice persist that she shall stay the stews named Mary Milliner. vice, threats, cutting down her al- bornly face the music, and live She shared Wilds name and growhere, lowance, refusing the use of the down the long punishment. I want ing prosperity for several years car all in vain. She continues before anyone suspects, until, one day, he felt constrained long hard, rebellious, utterly unmoved. her, to leave home on some pretext, go to lop off one of her ears with a My older daughter and my hus- to some other city, not So far but sword and kick her out. bands daughters by an earlier what I can visit her, and give her On leaving pokey, Mr. and Mrs. marriage have all been affection- baby out for adoption. Not far from Wild went into business, operating ate, manageable girls, the letter us is an agency that follows up an alehouse of a dubious sort. They goes on, "and we have made for adopted babies for actual years, attracted a good spending fairly them and my son a hospitable lov- and makes sure of their care and clientele of crooks. There are leging home. All four are happily mar- environment. ends that Wild padded out his inried now, my stepchildren regardAs you may suspect, I am come by a bit of judicious burglar-ing- , ing me as being as much their and don't know what is but this was never proved. mother as my own children do. right to think or do. Should we pubIt was while he was an innkeeper Janice is, therefore, all the licly accuse the man, hoping thus that Wild ran into the second exmore a mystery. Even in high-scho- to force a divorce? Or if she stays perience that changed his life. ROBERT YOUNG days she would stay away here should we quietly announce a suite Chosen as Partner overflowing with flowers, they over the dinner hour; even then secret marriage and try to bolster cut a wonderful cake before lunch her room was a pigpen with faded up that story, no matter how much Charles Hichln had been city one day while a photographer gave gardenias, smeared lipstick, movie people suspect? I am sick of talk, marshal (chief of police) of Lonthey talked programs, questionable magazines, worry and prayer. Her sisters and don and had abused the position directions; afterward NBC his Father about show, we could brother have no suspicion of the thoroughly. Caught in some rough candy boxes. Even then four Knows about their smilBest, not reach through her hard, matter, but merely know that her work, he was demoted to constaabout his campaign to ing exterior. She was in more than conduct has been more than usual- ble. He had ideas: Principal daughters, ocsafer driving among young one night accident, and on. one ly distressing to her father and me. among them the thought that he promote for he has been which session people, a . we had . Us Advise casion Please painful could live mighty comfortably if with the Juvenile police officers. "Janice has her amusing and he could terrorize the criminals speaking far and wide. lovable side, when she is not being into sharing their loot with him. Nothing touches her. A world-wid- e search has been incriticized, and her brother and Hichin needed a partner and he Unwanted Child sisters always give her the benefit chose Wild. From every viewpoint stituted for the six most beautiful Now the climax. Or rather the of the doubt. Please advise us. women in the world and the six one, the choice was superb. handsomest except She of tragedy. lifelong men, to portray the beginning My answer to this letter went by The exception was Hichins own father child. The a reputed in Albert J.. Cohens roles expects leading, wire; a letter followed. My decision welfare. rewho married man, a Prehistoric Women, for Eagle is young with that of the mother, the blackmailed ob- - agreed Together, pair and fuses acknowledgement, and my own view of this case is the underworld,, levyiny tribute Lion. Sounds ambitious! far from - hopeless. - Janice - hag from ; the - illegal house; : ; forcing -- Hie difficulty "Involved dn shut-- , made a young fool of herself, play- burglars and cutpurses under back and forth between the ing about with a married man, and threats of arrest to disgorge part tling each week has decided Bob coasts she is going to pay in slow months of their loot It was Wilds task to Crosby to resign from his Sunday of loneliness and helplessness, with collect this to and take it booty night show over NBC. Hell conthe - strain of childbirth, and the Hichin, who would sell it. tinue. though, until a new star has agony of letting her baby go. For But Hichin had the mind of a been signed. that' Is hat they have decided to strong arm gorilla; Wild had the do. brain of an organizer. Inevitably, Dan Seymour has been made Such a decision on my part isnt the subordinate of the board, of chairman began double only for Janice, nor for her father boss and edging him his of the Boys Club of crossing judges and mother, nor even for the broth- out of screens America. The Board top position. er and sisters who are so entirely flailed of back thousands Hichin recommendations grotesquely innocent in the affair, and always soon to select the national boy, of the and in London the public print ready to give her the benefit of was treated to the odd year, a citation for outstanding spectacle of the doubt. Eventually, shell come bludgeoning each junior citizenship. back to them a sensible girl, ready two supercrooks and in advertiseother pamphlets to take a job and her evening m . Alan Dale, of Sing It Again , ments. tny own heartbreak . . pleasures and her home obligations was (CBS Hichforeordained. end The Saturdays,) must be the hat scale, serves airily that the girl is of age, on a decent, to the level of back a in sank petty industry's best customer. Bobby-soxer- s and that he has no desire for a di- as must every woman who wants crook. Wild, became master of the have snatched four of his in vorce from his present wife. Janice to live reasonably and usefully two months. But his 35 fan last the racket with resentment and and enjovably, too. is half-ma- d WNU clubs Features Released by madeup for that when they .Released by WNU Features last at something shows I and fright, half-franti- c, ol ; -- self-respectin- g ( Robert Youngs Observe 17th Nuptial Anniversary in N. Y. Main Concern Is Baby's Welfare -- I need learned that the singer had been laid low with a virus infection. They sent him 48 assorted reme- dies. Dale played safe and stuck to his doctors prescriptions. When 40 New York high school -- reporters interviewed Robert m.c. of The Show Must Go one brought along a bowl of On, goldfish. He asked the humorist to swallow them to make his story and pictures better! A little more than a year ago Steve Cochran and Robert Webber, both broke and jobless, met at a party in New York. Then Steve was signed as Mae Wests leading man in Diamond Lll, and did White Heat and The Victim; Webber also landed a stage job, with Mel vyn Douglas. They met again on the Warners lot; both have starring roles In The Two Million Bank Robbery. William Bendix has signed a seven-contract with RKO, which year sets a precedent he will earn approximately one million dollars for making two pictures annually, but will be paid every week. Usually stars are paid for only 40 weeks a year or in a lump sum for each picture. And this when, as of March 1, only 315 actors held contracts in the (picture industry. The roster for the next series of guest artists on ABCs Car, negie Hall reads like a Whos Who of concert and opera. Arthur Rubenstein, Jennie Tourel, Helen " Traubel and Dorothy Sarnoff already are scheduled. The perfectly proportioned chorus girl. according to Davld Butler, The several in who directed i e o of R Daughter OGrady", should' be just 19 times as tall as the length of her middle finger. The star, June Haver, is. . ODDS AND ENDS . . . Steve Calvert, a bartender by night, is Hollywoods foremost gorilla impersonator, is doing his stuff in My Friend Irma Goes West , . Peters Scully, producer of Monograms1 Latham Family series, is looking for a boy to. replace Gary Gray as son of star Raymond Wilburn in future films Gray has been signed . , . Rosemary deCamp by has been trying to fit a $ foot, 4 inch sailfisb she caught at Acapulco into an space above her M-G-- ot fireplace. Released by WNU Features |