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...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...
Amateur Musicologist Crosby found that some bridges are just scene shifters: "WOR has one called Big City, another called Bigger City" One all-purpose bridge is called From Here to There Without Fireworks. Some bridges mix both scene and mood: Menacing Humor to Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab...
...money-heavy racketeers as residents. Still, it was interesting to discover that Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren had been elected to office on a campaign fund of no less than $462,000-$154,000 of it provided (in spite of a law forbidding political contributions by racetrack operators) by a dog-track owner named William H. Johnston...