Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room for 1,500) the attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach. The new title: To Hell with Orpheus...
Some groups are tougher. It took him three years, Kinsey likes to recall, to win the confidence of "the Times Square underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...
...underworld that lies behind the lovely façade of Paris, a new population has moved in on the oldtime apache. In the argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas...
...crisply underwritten, the photography has a raw, grimy look, and Andre De Toth's direction is skillfully paced for tension. In its harsh images of a bank holdup, a gangster hideout and homicide headquarters, and in its soundtrack teeming with the discordant sounds and gritty lingo of the underworld, The City Is Dark is a muscular little thriller that carries more conviction than many more high-toned movie melodramas...
...Room does not seem like "under the clock at the Biltmore"--the stillness of the book-lined chamber gives it a musty, scholarly flavor. There are books for every type of student in the 6,250-book reference collection. Prison ethnologists, for instance, delight in the Dictionary of the Underworld which sets into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian...