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...Paint the Joint Red." Just after Repeal, Billy was hired (at $1,000 a week) by an underworld syndicate, backed by some of the more distinguished members of the Brooklyn Beer Gang, to run a big Broadway nightspot called the Casino de Paree. With the Casino, Billy revolutionized the nightclub business. His plan of action to attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make...
Billy opened still another entertainment factory, the Billy Rose Music Hall, before he and the Beer Gang "separated" in 1934. In parting, Billy rashly gave a piece of his mind to some of the boys. To keep Billy from (as Billy said) "being built into the East River Drive," Friend Bernard Baruch called in the FBI. Billy named names, and the G-men had a word with all of them. Billy had found another equalizer...
...Beaten to Death." At the Heavenly Voice studio they first mistook a bobbed-haired girl performer for Little Happiness, chased and lost her in a nearby theater. Then they turned on the studio itself-breaking equipment and furniture until the police arrived and nabbed ten of the gang. Still smarting, they marched to Little Happiness' home, on Yunnan Road, climbed up to his second-story flat, slapped his wife. But of the thin, sharp face of Little Happiness they found not so much as a smirk. He was elsewhere, in hiding...
...Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail for boozing, fought his brother in the street over a girl and ended up with 90 days on the road gang. Columbia Pictures, on complaint of British censors, had to reshoot a twin-bed scene between Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball-with the beds moved a decent twelve inches apart...
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