Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Ivan Crap...
...floor show had to be called off when hilarious veterans scrambled to get into the act and airmen distracted the audience with a rousing crap game. Bottles of beer consumed were measured in thousands; no one dared to estimate (or particularly cared) how much strong stuff was downed...
...story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they had no idea there was a camera around-or even that movie characters must be either utterly good or utterly evil. In its wholly unpretentious way, this is easily the most sympathetic picture yet made...
Only once-at Hornepayne, Ontario-did he encounter noticeable hostility. He was speaking to school children when a man jerked a small boy from the crowd, shouted: "Get on home. I won't have you listening to that crap!" He called the Prime Minister "Hitler," finally charged toward him with fists up. Mr. King never budged. The man was led away, muttering...
Julian R. Càceres, Honduras' bon vivant Ambassador to the U.S., the conference's Mr. Five-by-Five, graced the occasion. Dr. Caceres is famed for his ardor (but not always for his luck) at international crap-shooting...