The New York herald., 1922-02-20

Autographs illuminate the walls, an
self, done in the period when he ,
pounds ringside, intrigues the elanC
with the patience of the true phi
losopher yesterday the telegram
which will take him TO Hollywood
in Los Angeles, where he purposes to
do what one jealous uplifter may 10
toward purifying the movies.
VIII Give Tsne, Not Act.
"No, I'm not going to act" he ex-
planned. ."They want me out there
to give 'em little tone. They have
just got on to the fact that they don't
know anything about making gang
pictures or pictures Of what is called
the underworld. And III say they
don't. Ii they pay me my price-and
l can't hear anything even whisper
except real money-I'll grap the first
rattler I can catch and teach 'em a
little about the business
What's the matter with the
movies" asked Mr.. Trickors caller.
Everything he replied emphat-
ically. People are getting on TO the
| takers that have been filing the pic
lures with bunk Now you take pic
lures that pretend to show New Yorl-
gunmen and gang leaders. Honest
they make us laugh down Eere. I've
known as many gang leaders and
gang fighters as any man in New York
and I never saw one that looked like
4 movie bad man, nor did l ever see
fight that came off the way they
run fights in the movies
1T may be stated, parentheticalIy
that one of Mr.. Tricker's salient char
acteristics is modesty. congenital
aversion 10 talking about lis own ex-
ploits. You might never learn, merely
by convcrsing with him, that he car
ries enough lead IN his person TO
weight the keel OF racing yacht, and
that his epidermis Las been bored or
creased by at least twelve bullets.
A Topnotcher In His Day.
There are gangsters yet alive be-
tween Park Row and Fourteenth
street that have seen Chick come
leapirg into a dance Eall seeking re-
venge or reprisal, blue guns flashing
fire. but ali this was in the old days
when the Bowery was a battle-ground
and there We're feuds on all sides
stranger than the east Kentucky
mountains ever knew.
These movie kings. what do they do
UNDERWORLD he went on. They al
ways make a gunman and gang fighter
lcok like a bum. ragged bum. II
they put woman OF the underworld
into their picture they make her look
like something the cat dragged in. 1T
amt true to life.
THE gang leaders I have known
(again one notes Mr.. Trckers modesty)
liked to dress within an inch of their
iivcs--silk shirts. clothes made by q
good tailor (no hand-me-down stun),
silk socks. patent leather kicks-the
whole works. i alve you me word, you
stack bunch Oh gangmen up against
a bunch OF bulls (Air. Thicker was en-
ploying the vernacular for cops. one
noted). and which bunch would look
more like gentlemen? j ask you. I've
known some OF the toughest guys the
town ever saw. so tough they could bite
p horseshoe In two, hard boiled eggs
IL there ever were any, but to just meet
'em you might never guess 1t.
Points for Reformation.
Smiling, polite. soft voiced. generous
that's them.
where do they get that bum stun.
anyway. when they try to picture to
Oshkosh what the Bowery Is like?
Then take the danes. Tho UNDER
world skirt is a pretty fossy piece of
silk, II anybody should drive up and
ask you. They have TO be to keep their
men interested. The best hats. the best
dresses the best silk stockings and satin
kicks diamonds and little gold bags
all those things. And some of them +
have known have had manners as good
az Mrs. Astorbilt. betcha | could slip one
OF those skirts into q Fifth avenue
racket. calling her the Countess de Hoo
zis, and get away with it like million
dollars"
Tales OF action, tales in which the
fash and report OF .45 sutomatics. slung
from the shoulder or carried on the hir,
being in great demand, Mr.. Tricker's
caller angled for "reminiscences OF the
days when running fights were the or
dinary outdoor sport along the Bowery,
and when no dance was complete with
out the invasion or armed youths. the
crash of breaking glass. the screams OF
frightened ladies and the shrllling OF
police whistles.
PERSONALLY" he commented after
some discussion of recent fatalities" I
think a lot OF those people are nutty-
too much coin. too much pstting on the
back for their own good. Maybe there's
dope, too.
Lots OF Dope In New York.
There's plenty OF IL in this mans
town, more OF the white sniffjn' than /
ever saw or heard OF.
Another thing pve noticed. che
Chinks are drinking more than they used
to do.
prohibition? Well. a lot OF guys will
laugh when Chick 1'ricker says what
no thinks about Prohibition. meaning
that used TO have a string OF gin