Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Chance. One night after dinner last week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...
Walter Abel as Gavin also suffers even more from this typing; he is cast as a representative of southern aristocracy with all the caricature that casting can imply. For some reason Mr. Logan has seen fit to equip this southern gentleman with a set of dice which he rolls intermittently throughout the play, an ineffective attempt at naturalism...