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Gaily by Hecht, Ben is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gaily about?

Made into a movie with Beau Bridgeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaily,_GailyWith the vigor and gusto invariably associated with his personality and his works, Ben Hecht recreates in this volume the lusty Chicago of theearly twentieth century, as seen from its underside by a cub reporter ona great metropolitan daily. He introduces the reader to a vast cast ofeccentric characters-bums, criminals, prostitutes, politicians, andpoets, not to mention the police. He conducts you to the scenes of thecrimes. He invites you to the courtroom and the murderer’s solitary celland to the gallows. He lets you sit around with him in the city room ofa great Chicago newspaper, where he collected considerable material forthat newspaper classic, The Front Page, which he wrote in collaborationwith Charles MacArthur.Some of these stories are bizarre. Most of themare bawdy. But they are all imbued with lusty vitality and with a kindof innocent wonder that life is really so much stranger than fiction.The author looks back on the whole era with the consistently-unchangedfresh eye of youth. He is less concerned with nostalgia than reportingthe way it was.

Who reads Gaily?

Author

Hecht, Ben

Publisher

Literary Licensing, LLC

Published

1963

Language

EN

ISBN

9781258806248

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-25