Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Chicago-style trum-peter from Dorchester, left Nick's, New York clearing house of the Chicago musicians, last week to spend a few days up here away from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...
...York Herald Tribune straightway called for a coordinator of crapshooting; the New York Daily News, for a coordinator of gin-rummy. Pinboy Landis had reason to think that he had been handed a tough...
...match shortage had become so acute that a girl could safely beg one from a strange man without being considered fresh. People were trying to keep clean on four 3-oz. bars of soap a month. Whiskey sold for $7 a bottle, and gin (except a bathtub variety) became almost unobtainable. Women stood in long queues to buy the Government's last stocks of canned goods...
...Shanghai Gesture (Pressburger; United Artists) is a film perversion of Playwright John Colton's flaming melodrama of 16 years ago. Most of its original bawdy plot, language, atmosphere and characterization has been removed. Mother Goddam (Florence Reed in the stage version) is now Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), no longer proprietress of a Chinese bawdy house, but of a gambling casino. As such, she is not sinister but gaudy. So is the pretentious picture...
...this fruitless face-saving is a silly tale of the undoing of little Poppy, who is fresh out of a Swiss finishing school, looks and acts it. She has an affair with Doc Omar. This upsets Sir Guy, who is still more upset when he discovers that Mother Gin Sling is his Chinese wife, whom he had long thought dead. That disclosure makes the slightly tarnished Poppy behave so badly that her mother shoots her dead, and everyone goes home...