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...traditionally red-lit, back-of-the-barroom pads along Gary's Washington Street-at Gus's Lounge, the Club Little Island and the Central Cafe-the girls charge $20 to $100 and work in shifts to avoid occupational fatigue. Outside, Negro boys, few older than ten, lead the way to Adams and Jefferson Streets, just around the corner, where their sisters stand in the doorways or sit by the windows-waving, winking, blowing kisses and tapping on the windows at potential Johns. At the sleazier local hotels, the guests all seem to be named "Mr. and Mrs. Smith...
...HOSTAGE (Columbia). Whether through providential design or evolutionary quirk, an Irishman's tongue is the nimblest portion of his anatomy. The late Brendan Behan's tongue was rough, racy, tender and tart. His play, if it can be called that, is a cross between a magnificent barroom brawl and every vaudeville turn in the book of yesterday. Julie Harris and an intoxicatingly zestful company offer this bawdy, irreverent toast to the world...
During his years at Dunster, before his graduation in 1959, Kopit wrote two Christmas plays and several one-actors. "My Christmas productions, Don Juan in Texas and Across the River and Into the Jungle, had everything in them, even huge barroom brawls. We threw them together in two days, but the audiences loved them anyway. Everyone was always drunk." One of his other plays, The Questioning of Nick, about a high school basketball player accused of throwing a game, was later put on television...
After he lost the first round in his barroom and wound up in court, Koonce learned that he had been both right and wrong. The charge of selling liquor to a minor was dismissed, but he drew a 90-day sentence for assaulting the police. His mother was fined $25 for having come...
...Your unnecessarily caustic article maligning Pitcher Warren Spahn [July 23] was read with disbelief by this admirer of TIME and Spahn. Are your qualifications for a successful baseball career harmonica playing, airport parties or barroom brawls...