Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid, Dominguin is most likely to be found of an evening at Lhardy's-an early igth century saloon near the old Puerta del Sol. Here, amid a collection of poets, newsmen, critics, painters, sculptors and bullfight purists, Luis Miguel holds court. From Lhardy's, the court is likely to move to a restaurant for dinner, then to a nightclub to sit until dawn, serious and silent, sipping Scotch & soda and watching the floor show fade. From time to time someone will say something sardonic and there will be quick smiles of agreement. It is like watching...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...
...solid citizens of Hadleyville are not so civic-minded. When the marshal tries to deputize a posse against Gunman Miller, everyone in Hadleyville finds excuses. Even the marshal's Quaker wife walks out on him because she is against killing. In Ramirez' saloon, they are laying odds that the marshal is dead five minutes after Miller gets off the noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut...
Scarlet Angel (Universal-International) is the name of a gaudy post-Civil War saloon in New Orleans, "where the whisky is watered and the gambling is as crooked as the gals." Here, sultry Roxy (Yvonne de Carlo) plies her trade as hostess, separating the customers from their cash, calling everybody "dearie," and enthusiastically participating in all the barroom brawls...
...Yvonne sets about casting off her saloon background in favor of class. She keeps her pinkie raised when holding a teacup, and moves about in circles where the talk runs to such refined remarks as, "May I escort you to the punch bowl?" She also undergoes a moral reformation. She turns up her nose at a life of luxury by spurning two handsome, wealthy suitors, and runs off instead with poor but honest Seaman Hudson, who has followed her to San Francisco. By the fadeout, Yvonne has obviously acquired class. Unfortunately, Scarlet Angel never does...