Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...
Twelve 1940 debutantes met at a swank Manhattan saloon. Sipping tea, they cast votes for the season's "glamor boy," chose blond, rosy-cheeked Donald Munroe (see cut), who designs debs' clothes and is not in the Social Register...
...called because he used to carry an umbrella rain or shine, hang it on the bar rail in Johnson's saloon, and stand innocently by while contractors dropped tribute into the folds...
Like a snake's tongue, the fire emerged fore and aft through hatches and ventilators. Amidships passengers milled. An officer urged them to seek shelter in the saloon. Boats were put over, women, children, the aged put into them...
...unfortunate accident. But by next day the Orazio was a national tragedy, almost an international incident. Survivors' heads were counted when they reached shore. No less than 104 were missing, including the four nuns. Rescued passengers grimly described how those who had obeyed orders and gone to the saloon were trapped and burned, how a mother, clothes afire, leaped overboard, how a lifeboat was swamped by the seas. Some in scant night clothes died of exposure to icy spray and mistral...