Angels with dirty faces

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) is the ultimate Warner Brothers movie, even more so than Casablanca. Not only does it feature the finest performance of one of Warners’ biggest stars James Cagney, but it is arguably the greatest gangster picture ever, a genre Warners practically invented. There Rocky finds that “Father Jerry” is the pastor of the local church who is dedicated to guiding the destinies of the children and teenagers that live there.

Angels with Dirty Faces begins with the oft-used premise of two boyhood friends whose adult lives go in opposite directions. Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) leads a life of crime while Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien) becomes a priest. Rocky has just served a sentence in prison and he decides to take up residence in the New York slum neighborhood where he and Jerry grew up.

Cagney’s charismatic performance succeeds in making Rocky “the most lovable gangster in all of movies,” as Andrew Bergman put it in his book on Cagney’s films. Providing first-rate support are O’Brien, Ann Sheridan as Laury Ferguson, the neighborhood girl who falls in love with Rocky, Humphrey Bogart as crooked lawyer James Frazier, George Bancroft as mob boss Mac Keefer, Edward Pawley as a sadistic prison guard and, best of all, the “Dead End Kids” (Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell and Bernard Punsley) as the JDs.

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Philadelphia Zoo

The Philadelphia Zoo today begins a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of its birth with exhibits featuring "face to face" meetings between zoogoers and lions - separated by a thick pane of glass - and a new, modern aviary opening in May that will feature more than 100 spectacular birds from around the world, many of them endangered. The birdhouse, the McNeil Avian Center, will replace a zoo birdhouse built in 1916.

Philadelphia Zoo as a leader in wildlife conservation and environmental education. In a written statement, zoo officials said its mission is to “spark young imaginations and inspire the next generation to take the lead and protect animals and environments throughout the world.” A weeklong-long celebration includes a birthday party with entertainment for all ages. Sesquicentennial Weekend also kicks off festivities that are scheduled to run into 2010, as well as new events that include a “hatching” at the McNeil Avian Center that is set to open in this spring.

The Philadelphia Zoological Society was chartered in 1859, the year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species." But the Civil War intervened and the zoo didn't actually open its doors until July 1, 1874. The zoo also has seen its share of tragedies, including the deaths of several elephants and the terrible Christmas Eve fire in 1995, sparked by faulty wiring, that killed 23 gorillas and other primates. Although generations of children fondly remember the zoo, and its since torn-down monorail, it is not without its detractors.