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van Doren, Mark | April 25, 1928 issue

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The article focuses on the motion picture "The Gangs of New York," by Herbert Asbury. It will be a revelation of history hardly now destined, ever to repeat itself; it will be a revelation of depths which human nature can achieve; and it will remind people too how high they can go in realms of nomenclature. A marvelous panorama is here unrolled by a journalist who, to be sure, is none too critical in his selection of evidence and who is out above all things for the telling detail, but who possesses just the right kind of skill in these matters and knows how to tell his reporter's story.

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GANGS of New York (Film); ASBURY, Herbert; MOTION pictures; HUMAN behavior; HISTORY; GANGS
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