Word: joey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in 1939 disgruntled bondholders got Jumbo a new trainer, Joseph Patterson Binns. Instead of writing Jumbo off as too big to work, Joey Binns gave it jobs for which it was best suited. He installed a production-line system in the enormous laundry, saved $25,000 a year. He mechanized the housekeeping, closed off whole floors in rotation, kept a perpetual inventory of the rooms. This set-up cut the cleaning bill per room 22? a day, which for the Stevens meant $120,000 a year. But the average occupancy was still only 44%. So Binns spent...
...Joey (book by John O'Hara, music by Rodgers & Hart, produced by George Abbott). Since he came of age, John O'Hara has spent more time in nightclubs than many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice...
...play in O'Hara's slangy dialogue is gamy, funny, simple in outline: Joey is taken up by a Chicago society woman even harder than he is. She keeps him until she is tired of him, then gets the heel out of there. Meanwhile he has lost the affections of a nice young ingenue. Somehow the show performs the feat of making Joey an almost sympathetic character. As Joey, lean, dark Gene Kelly has a treacherous Irish charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed...
...those who can park their morals in the lobby, Pal Joey...
...JOEY - John O'Hara-Duell, Sloan & Pierce...