QChicago Ooening Happened When?
AThe hit Warner Bros. film, Angles With Dirty Faces, opened in Chicago at the Chicago theatre (State near Randolplh) on Friday, November 25, 1938---the ad reads: "Far Beyond the Highest Dramatic Peak the World Has Ever Known . . . With Pride That is Humbled Before Greatness Warner Brothers Bring You---Angles With Dirty Faces---James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The 'Dead End' Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, directed by Michael Curtiz . . . Holiday Stage Revue: In Person . . . Clyde Lucas and his Orchestra!. . . the film was held over for a second week.
Q"Dead End Kids"---Who of Them Joined the Navy?
AChicago Sun, Friday, October 16, 1942, p. 15:Two 'Dead End Kids' Enter U.S. NavyHollywood, Oct. 16--Four actors today enlisted in the United States Armed services--two joined the Navy, one the Army Air Corps and one applied for Army flying traiing.The two Navy recruits were members of the "Dead Edn" kids gang of film fame, Norman Abbott and Gabriel Dell. John Payne enrolled at the Phoenix (Ariz.) recruiting station as a member of the Army Reserve for a 40-week course starting in January, after which Payne will serve as a pilot or instructor. Richard Arlen, who holds a private pilot's license, filled an application at Mather Field, Sacramento, for service pilot training._______________________
QFrankie Burke---How Was He Described?
AChicago Tribune, Thursday, November 24, 1938, p. 34, c. 5:FRONT VIEWS and PROFILESbyJune Provines"Frankie Burke, red-headed 16 year old from Brooklyn, who takes the part of Cagney as a young lad in Angles With Dirty Faces, in town yesterday. He has the Cagney trick of holding in his chin, head to one side, the slant of eye, and the mouth of the tough guy of the films. . . . "_______________________________
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