Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tough urchins with names like Angel, T.B., Dippy, Spit, peopled the play and brought it to fame. Toughest and meanest of these was Spit, biggest bully, loudest curser, and a squealer...
Cocky, 19-year-old Edward Furman, picked from the slummy East Side for the roadshow role of Spit, swaggered gloriously in the part for $45 a week, ad libbed obscenities that brought qualms to managements, blushes to the cast, thrills to the audience. Another convincing performer in the same company was seasoned Actress Millicent Green (Stevedore, The Left Bank), as Francey, the streetwalker...
...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...
...jobless Spit, back on the real waterfront, the plaudits and salary of the stage were gnawing memories. He renewed his siege of Actress Green. When he put his name over her doorbell (so he could have mail delivered there), she went to the police. Month ago he was hauled to court for disorderly conduct, paroled by Magistrate Anna M. Kross so that probation officers could investigate his case, find...
...friend found Spit a job fortnight ago with an ice cream manufacturer. Salary: $15 weekly; first duty: to bring a nanny goat from New Jersey to Manhattan for the manufacture of goat's-milk ice cream. Last week Spit's case came before Magistrate Kross for disposition. Swaggering, Spit announced he had turned down the job. Said he: "I told the guy I'd shove the goat down his throat. Goats stink; the salary stinks, too. It was a publicity stunt. I can get better jobs than that; besides, I want...