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...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning up until another mobster (Lloyd Nolan) hijacks both his swag...
...means as well by Farbridge as he does by himself. He needs money, the town needs a little fun. By promoting a festival, the commodore intends to see that both needs are satisfied. From there on, his task resembles, in its ticklish reconciliation of opposites, the difficulties of a con man trying to play Santa Claus...
...immediate cause of the insurgency was Whitman's evening menu, which scheduled chili con carne and prune whip. Most of Whitman's residents, remembering their luncheon of "puppies delight" (a form of hash), decided to eat else-where...
Eight girls remained behind at Whitman. They didn't eat chile con carne and prune whip after all, but got dry cereal...