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ZANIES
THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
LIMELIGHT
"You're waving the wrong one, dear..."
"So you're setting a DOM fashion, too {**
"It looks like a proposal tonight."
"Hum' he forged the teacher's signature well{"
Then
"Has anyone ever told you You're beautiful ? **
G
focuses on Paris, where Gary Cooper has come to
town in a most unfamiliar solu.
Paris.
ARY COOPER was on the telephone: "Hiya, '
Countess
what's the lowdown? - aure
►
... suro. yep... no, no, I'm feelin' fine: never drink too much: always stop between drinks. . Ha winked at me; carefully balanced the heel of one shoe on the toe of the other; sink lower on to the divan; spun the receiver as tenderly as if it were a six-shooter and put it to the
other ear.
He laughed silently, his large nose crinkling like an accordion. "How's the Duchess 7" he said, giving mo a big "Great
that honey.
Give
my
schoolboy grin.
great you do Call me--huh?
best to the Duchess,' He hung
up,
I scratched the ankle of one
foot with the heel of the
other. As meticulously as
All the virtues
devoted
Cowboy Cooper trades his horse for a sofa
Breen
In
it.
By THOMAS WISEMAN
Cooper
said.
mined that he wan still not
"In this film," said Cooper, scratching the side of his nose, "I do things I shouldn't. But it doesn't reflect on the American life" He grimed sheepishly. "In "Gee, reale I'm recused. of doing
many things that I shodin't That I Haven't in dest done. No, peet it. I'm not bound to set an
to
in the
If he were doing a balletic oyed boy of the exercise, he unwound his Office, legs,
shifted his weight Therefore, I was up- on to one elbow and poured propriately shocked when Scotch on the rocks. He he told me that he was now was wearing fawn slacks playing an elderly roue in and a sports shirt with hori- the film "Love in
do that.・・ Pve the you gotta zontal blue stripes. His Afternoon," whose affairs been virtuous one hell of a thanks." face was as full of interest with married women are so look too wrong because it pound the credo that has don't worry me n
long time. Maybe it won't Cooper continued to ex- ing lines as a map of the numerous that he single- Balkans.
handed provides a decent
happens in Paris; it'd be kept him in business and in example. All in all I try to be a (or rather indecent) liveli- different if it happened favour for so long: "There pretty good citizen, but I don't hood for one French private
Wyoming. Wouldn't are not many guys who've set myself up to be any example, detective specialising in stand for it there, but in been in the business longer mot important enough. With his easy amiability, divorce.
Paris.... Hell, nobody's than I have. I guess part Keeping interest lazy charm, and untroubled "Yes," he said, "I guess gonna believe it. It's fan- of the reason is that I've "If I go out withs o, girl to eyes, he looked the embodi- 1 offend against the Code. Lasy."
stuck to decent principles dinner I thinks I'm entitled ment of all those simple First time I've ever done
If pictures are going to be without offending my wife and American virtues which he that. I'm quite a guy with the publicity man answered do that.
The telephone rang and seen by kids, you have to family. If I go out twied with the same girl sýmething could be has been selling so success-the women in this film--- fully for the past 25 years; married
He mimed
made of it has been made of a girl's ones, too--and I
"I don't hold with making it. Hell, if you make a monk out the Hollywood Code could don't come
sticky name to Cooper, who shook filma that show the sordid at yourself you'd lose Interest in to # never have had 3. moro finish. How do I square his head. The publicity side of lifeThe Black your work
"As an autor you're exponent, he that with my principles? I man said into the phone: board Jungle. I think they seemed 38 wholesome as don't. I'm taking a chance. "Mr Cooper is not back have a bad effect. I don't Youve got to nonreting life,
live to do that, Mother's Day, the blue. There comes a time when yet.”
hold with showing hope.
1 an actor, You may not less people like in Death think so, but I've learned some of a Salesman. I think old school of actors
slut about" "seling. I'm of
who week that's bad morally. To clean shirts. Some of these new me it's depressing and boys, bellove that if you have a it's dull. Sure there are decent suit of clothes you can't people like this fellow, but dirt on you to be any good. M. act, that you got to have some you don't have to write I think you can be a good netor plays about thom. There even if you do wash every day. are people born that way: "Maybe I don't have some of and there ain't nothin' you John Barrymore saying to me: the tricka.. but 1. ranember onen can do about them or for You skinny so-and-so, I wish I *em.
could do the things you can do, That kind of thing makes you feal good. Sure, something w mustn't do on the screen. orce wanted to make a Western "A man like Arthur Milen, 拉 which I
I play a character who he's got a gripe against certain said I can't do that. It'
can't shoot. Cocil B. De Mille phases of American life, I don't Еусп cow the truth is still a man who has an ingrown not shoot a gun was fating the
right. A Gary Cooper who end souded in mystory, but it gripe against our country, certain that behind the Viterby think he's done a lot at bar. Tids down. He was wight trial there were many political Ours is a pretty great country rang. Once agaitz it was the Once again the telephone Implications. The order to Fab and I don't think we ought to French girl. Cooper, seld: Confuska broke out when brin (o 'purgo the Camorra run it opwall MIN judgment was passed, There provided the Combinlari with an were shrieks, gestures, caths and excuse to accuse the police, shoir French curres from the frenzied men in old rivals, and was supported by
politicians.
Total War On Italy's Most Dreaded Secret Society
THE
A MARATHON TRIAL BROKE
POWER OF THE CAMORRA
G
THE BLACK BROTHERHOOD
ENNARO CUOCOLO +++++++
broke the oath of the Camorra, one of the most powerful secrei societies that has ever existed and one which held Naples in a grip of terror
for more than century.
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The penalty for treachery death, und sentence
WAN
Was pronounced by A Supreme Tribunal of 12 Camorristi lenders. It was swiftly and brutally carried out.
On June 7, 1906, Cuocolo was found on the seashore near Torre del Greco where the lower slopes of Vesuvius the blue sweep down to Bay of Naples.
Cuocolo,
tho
By JOHN ROBBINS –
a
know every detail of the Cuocole murders, to tum King's evidence against his former trade,
been Abbatemaggio had coachman in the service of the chier of the Camorra, Enrico Alfano, or Erricone, and his de- fection 9000 became Parlcone fled to America, bul was discovered by New York policeman, Detective Petrosino, and inken back to Raly. Later Fettrocing was murdered by the Camara in Palermo).
know
leader was held at Bagnoli. At Theer five were sentenced to this meeting Erricone denounced 30 years' solfiary confirament, the Cuocolos for the betrayal of Others icceived varying sen- a comrade who, as a result, had fencos. been sent to penal servitude.
According to the prosecution a certain one-eyed Nicolo Morra was instructed to go the douths of the Cuocolos
น
the cage. One of then cut his shough there was no mention
Cuocalo was enticed to Torre throat with
del Greco and killed by Morra and three others.
The Camorra originated in Neapolitan prisons during Bourbon oppression early in the 19th century, Its objects were at fli social, but from 1860 on- wards it was an unscrupu-
Then, in a hired courage, the lous political ring using an Kimy of criminals for its
In all 41 people including assassins drove 10 Naples and Wote Zainied, men shouted. anti-national ends.
Erricone, Father Vittozzi and to the Via Nardonnes, where the And outside 1: took a battalion cause the rival candidate was
Serrentina's Enrico Alfano, or Erri- Abbatemaggio, were arrested in beautiful
brief of infantry to maintain order. widowhood was anded, соде became the
the Carabinieri swoop. pil powerful head of tho Camorra in 1893 cfter the dcath of its most famous loader, Clodio He was then 20.
Cappuccio,
The society controlled the hope market, ali publio sales, the bends of amugglers infesting Naples, and the dockers. Black- organised Thieves had to business man of
pay the Camorra between 10 and 30 percent of the value of their log for "protection".
В corpulent,
elegantly dressed 42, was almost unrecognis- able, His head had been battered in—and his body bore 47 wounds inflicted with the traditional stiletto
المد
wis
→ COURTROOM
At the time of the murders Erricone was dining at an frin
a jagged piece of glass and collapsed in a pool of of it at the trial the Socialists blood.
had lost the 1995 aloctions in the Vicaria constitumey of Naples
the Camor
which supported by campaigned
very effectively for him. No wonder they wished to deal the Camorra n
with the Carabinieri,
THE HERO
Speak no evil
I'm
The phone ring. It was the minderted. gut again. Cooper. I left.
back
(COPYRIGHT)
Britons Adopting More Foreigners
By A Special Correspondent
the
A increasing number of one member, but what wo
Britons are adopting class as ordinary everyday.
UCH was the prelude to the said that at 9 pa. Morra, and most as an accomplice, but as dead except for what foreign families, or single things.".
near Torre del Groco with other FATHER Vittozzi received a
triale connect death blow.
-accused, chicts of the Camorra, It was
term of six years imprison maristentes and most sensational trial in Italy another man want to this century-a trial that was 10 and said: "It is done, last over a year and to cost the gave coch a glass of wine.
about Stato
The £80,000, evidence of 700 witeities filled; ·
63 volumes of the offical report,"
CONFUSION
release
meni
the inn he suffered from angina pectoris maggio and two defouce cotusel. Erricone he was loot in the Infirmary of "One of, thựợp, Sprator Flocco persons in urgent need of a Seying that serangementm Flormos Convict Prison until he Salesume, has mayor consed his friendly helping hand would be made to translate
in 1913, when he was fight to clour tho
he still protesting his innocaNOR, dialendo et ikerbo. In 1938 he No. 1 is a youth club in the club's letters into Ger Abbatemaggio, the informer, wrote a book about the trip, the Sheffield area who have man, the member added: The trial did not begin until EVERYBODY denied
every- was gabled with the rost. But, it but it wee ptized by the Car adopted an Austrian family. "Probably we shall not gain March, 1011, five years after the thing. None were Camor- was not the inst the work was binieri dow hours after A few of the members of ihreir confidence immediately Cuocolo killings, and then not rista, nond knew anything to hear of him. When Tonly on publication! in Naples but at Viterbo, north about the murders Erricone I World War I his oblained
this youth club decided to but we hope eventually to win thir hearts arià, do all wÓ DAD of Romic, far from the influence, strongly protested, too, against permission
“REVELATIONS" put forward the idea,
fer them. the racks and of the Camorra. Eyta so it was a suggestip that
hart Dought Bo
tion,winging:
They had a film show. No: 2 is a group of your difficult to empanel a jury. inspired the murder of the New the Kallon War Crow
been Then a vote was taken and memb. of a church con York detective Petrosino.
BRATTEMAGGIO Az
the question was asked again the years and was released for of adopting the family in lond****
Twenty years after the trial Ain and out of prison over everyone seemed in favour to also in the north of were those secused at Viterbo the last time in tow months question, polly guilty? Abbattigglo Recensky bo claimed
into
iron
ange whe
each declared his innocence, the others roared: "Bravo."
Th
with
H
adopted
The unhappy jurymen eventu- carried by members of the boom written off as just another ally enlisted were virtually in Camorra.
sordid incident in Naples' his prisoned for the duration of the
They reported that the trial, and received
a July, 1912. Of the 41 thing he had said in evidence clostiges in the Montesi case the Austrian famlly once a living with foster parents
The marathon trial coded in
They he have t His patent-leather dancing tory,
Haned a confesion that every could mako incasational clip- They decided to write to 15-year-old Austrian, girl who shoes were spotlessly clean murders were the outcome of a day each for their trouble
originally placed on trial,
three
has lost her parents and is now The ancient Church of them died, three had mysteriously we false and that he had been which, ho zaid, had connections no trace of the wo
Camorra quarrel and four men and bore
need but were not Scalzi (Barefooted) was tumed Vesuvian ash, indicating arrested.
a courtroom, and a great disappeared and 15 had been simultaneously blackmailed and with the Camorra and the Mofa month, and to send them the Yugoslav frontier, Ma
bribed by the Carabinies, that he had been carried to
built for the relenood efter serving in gnol
of Bleily
parcels of clothing and food. The aim of their help scheme Bohind the scenes, it is said, prisoners, Abbatemaggio,
for us to the maximum.
governm convinood No the spot where he was the polico ware sent along Batoty's sake, was provided with canteens that could be imposed there had bow a trudo ficial affele written off in alien send a special big parcel at gr
matter how this strange every so often. They plan to -# is run through, a "Save the Childrent funds to send, the decided to release Be history the false trolls by a pricat, Don Ciro a small cage of his own: Father on them if they
country Vittozzi, who was known as the Vittozz the society's Pope" gulity of the various charges vivors, stuf belt in, prisoner0654tő forget, itilthe wordi : dumatikk Ko"Teethink we all; realised and sexst already. “
uke Christmas, ta
About. 27 has been colierte wens not pardoned that would has become part of the "Pope of the Comoara,” There was allowed a seat in front of against them,
All were, in fact, found guilty have been an open accustom It digniles on docs apaches in how fortunate we are to It is hoped that the mom
Innguage. was perjury and corruption at the lager cage. every turn, and finally the police abandoned the hust
Slowly punctuated by many of criminal' conspiracy, but only outinst the Ourabinieri -- but France; ond thused: the America havo - what: Bu interruptions and emotional out- are wone decined guilty of the wese reboosed as parole bow of a the criminely of meat close.
families will periet the girl in becoming a kindergarten murgy, those inside the actual murder,
would call luxur But so great was public feel- bursts from
esgainst the erywhere it was whisper- Care, Cas
Camorra was unfolded - before Camorra has won
found.
THE
STABBED
HE Neapolitan police
Publica Sicurezza — at first thought he was Q
stranger.
But the body o
was identified by an uncle again”—that the goverment was the president, Cavaliere Bianchi.
and the police went to the house in the Via Nardonnes,
in the very heart of Naples,
where Cuocolo lived.
forced to doctore total war ca
the secret society that had had
ita KOPUTK WDLY for so long,
BETRAYAL
NCE Erricone-a thin, vulgar
Captain Fabbroni, commander ONCE
of the Naples Chubirinci, Italy's.. man with a sear from qar to para-milliary police, was told (it mouth aboutod: "We pre inno.
Theco duroy found the body of his wife, Maria Culinelil, la said by the Duke of Aosta) to pont. We have been betrayed woman or doubiful character, smaali the Camoen, dindi smpah and sold llice lambs" Then he
beannkaka burst into tours, tr known as "The Beautiful Sor- it he did.
Sho antim alabbed to death.
had been They ‚ mainly responsiblə But were innocent? From
that joy the donoticment was Cornw the evidenon, It appeared that And ca hor body she bor
bore the bineer Capesuit, wito, dosguised, the nitair began, when, Cikcolo, #fregio a long circular cut the as a permint, became a Comor- who had been a receiver rittani broncs for a trafor pc,apy Tieto and burned) the scorets/of, #botans good, baked the curs (5 The Camorra had bad tai res the
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