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...town because of a crime investigation, Bookie "Numbers" Foster (Scott Brady) and his hypochondriac sidekick, "Poorly" Sammis (Wally Vernon) wind up in Georgia backwoods country, where they adopt a hillbilly girl (Mitzi Gaynor). In short order the pretty hillbilly becomes a dancing star at Dave the Dude's nightspot and horse parlor on Broadway. It takes just a little while longer for Numbers, spurred on by Mitzi's affection, to decide to go straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...nightspot bar on Key West's Duval Street, a full-bloused songstress named Rae Waller was tickling the patrons' ears with a new song about Harry Truman. (Sample verse: "Bar pianos strain their glands/For the touch of Harry's hands.") Yet while the song poked fun at him, Key West's most important tourist was more than welcome in the southernmost city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fish & Quips | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...streets, much of it directed at jeep thieves who worked steadily every night. Seoul's Capitol Club, where,, two weeks ago a plate of potato chips had sold for $2.50, was dark and deserted. In its stead, a few blocks away, stood Seoul's last-ditch nightspot, the Consolation Club, which advertised "Fifty Beautiful Women Fifty." Inside, a dozen odd bedraggled beauties gyrated round a scarred dance floor, their swirling Korean skirts revealing singularly unattractive expanses of olive-drab G.I. long Johns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Another City | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Morton because "I didn't want to be called 'Frenchy' ") was much like the end. He was born hard by the cribs of New Orleans' tough and fabled Storyville. When Author Lomax met him in 1938, he was pounding the piano in a dingy Washington nightspot. That same year, Jelly Roll was stabbed in a brawl there, and he died broke in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mister Jelly Roll | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Wally Williams (nicely played by Melvyn Douglas) is a thoroughgoing heel. He got hold of the nightspot through blackmailing the previous owner; he frightens the help, seduces the showgirls, mistreats his own family. When he gets into financial straits, he determines to go down the same brutal way he came up. He frames one of his partners, breaks the piano-playing hand of the other, sets fire to the nightclub rather than have any other boss set foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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