Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said one actor after the show. "When he leaned over after one rehearsal and kissed his wife, we were all shocked." Mrs. Connie Dickson Jones herself is long past such shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion of Florida), and onetime owner of three beauty parlors, she met T. C. when he came to her for a new wig. "After each performance," says she, "I still say to myself: 'What a great artist...
...Judge Walker called the defendants by name: Willion ("Ted") Collinsworth, 23, an illiterate chronic drunk, who cried when his wife Pearlie and two-year-old son rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death...
...delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
...headed right (with his pistol hand closest to the camera). Anybody shot was assumed dead, unless the audience was notified to the contrary. The stock situations had also been worked out-the stage robbery, the Indian attack, the big stampede, the necktie party, the chair-throwing brawl in the barroom-and in the subtitles, the dialogue had been perfected: "We'll head 'em off at the pass...
Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...