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Guys and Dolls. Delightful low-down musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the babes who need new shoes (TIME...
...time he started to work at the age of five, Willie Moretti kept his eyes peeled for the fast buck. His first job with a Harlem milkman paid 25? a week. Later, as a teen-ager with plenty of savvy, big-city cunning and a marked talent for crap-shooting, Willie managed to do a little better-though he did spend a year in the reformatory for assault. But it wasn't until he took to betting that Willie really hit his stride...
Heading the list of new musicals is a thing assembled by many hands and parading under the title of Guys and Dolls. It is derived, partially, from a Damon Runyon story, and has to do with a floating crap game. It's funny, fast paced, and tuneful, but tickets are very scarce...
...Academy Tunner got adequate grades fairly easily, cut his share of capers. There were frequent poker sessions-"He's the world's worst poker player and crap shooter," says his brother-in-law-and there was one glorious weekend in New York when he met four girls from George White's Scandals. Attracted by Tunner's ' strong-jawed, straight-nosed good looks, all four of the girls took to visiting him, in bevy, at West Point, a development which permanently endeared Tunner to his Academy friends...
Close Friends. George had another startling story to tell. One Leon Bishop, a gambler, had told George that he was sent by Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren to Hialeah to take over crap games, roulette wheels and all gambling except horse racing. George said that Bishop walked in last December when Policeman George was helping to raid a gambling joint in Hialeah. Bishop went to the telephone. Five minutes later, George related, he was called to the telephone himself and told by another gambler to "get the hell out of there" because Leon Bishop was a close friend...