Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...
...John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...cowhorn. The detectives craned their stiff necks. At each doorway where an empty milk can was standing the goatherd stopped, milked a complacent nanny to the requisite amount, then passed on. Meanwhile the other goats foraged busily. The surprised detectives saw numbers of them make for the alley where stood the French and Spanish cinema billboards, sniff the Spanish posters suspiciously, then turn to the French and pulling the posters from the boards with sharp teeth, eat them with evident relish...
Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...