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...think the witty book by Swerling and Burrows can hold its own, too. Guys and Dolls relates two love stories: that of Nathan Detroit, operator of the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" and Miss Adelaide, his fiancee of 14 years; and that of big-time gambler Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army lass. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls opens tonight, and plays this Fri. and Sat., and next weekend as well. At the Old Library in Leverett House, tickets at the door or at Holyoke Center...
Masterson's namesake of television is William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. The original Bat Masterson was a frontier lawman fabled for his panache as a dresser and highstakes gambler. Born in Iroquois County, Ill. in 1853, Masterson became deputy sheriff of notorious Dodge City, followed the gold rush prospectors to Deadwood, S.D., and then went to enforce the law at aptly named Tombstone, Ariz. at the behest of Marshall Wyatt Earp. Masterson closed out his career as a sportswriter for the New York Telegraph...
Today, when Puzo gets the urge to press his fortune, he heads for the gaming tables of Las Vegas. He is no longer a "degenerate gambler," his description of a guy who would rather gamble than do anything else. The compulsion was lost years ago when the casinos cut off his credit and demanded cash. Even the desperate excitement of changing one's life with a bank-breaking night is now denied him. It is one of life's happier problems: "having more than enough, he has too much to lose. Gambling is simply a $20,000-a-year relaxation...
...chemin de fer, blackjack and practically anything else at which she could try her diamond-decorated hand. Charged with stealing jewels taken out on approval from Cartier, Kitty, 39, was acquitted by a jury after her defense lawyer scored a decisive point: given her notoriety as a compulsive gambler, who could believe that a shrewd firm like Cartier would let her walk away with two rings and a diamond worth...
...already Brooke Shields has played a prepubescent prostitute in Louis Malle's movie Pretty Baby. For her next role in Wanda Nevada, precocious Brooke is cast as an aspiring singer named Wanda who escapes from a Nevada orphanage and roams the West with a two-bit gambler named Baudray D'Emerillo (Peter Fonda). "I'm still playing the part of a girl who wants to be older, but this time there's none of that sex business involved," says Brooke. Even nicer, she has established a rapport with Co-Star Fonda, who also happens...