Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take to protective padding. Among her later victims: Bob Hope, whose teeth caps she sent scattering over a soundstage floor during a bit of jujitsu; Cinemactor Frank Faylen, whom she knocked out with a right to the jaw when the director demanded realism; Eddie Bracken, who, in a saloon scene, caught a Hutton slap on the back that looped him over the bar and into a heap on the other side. "When they work with me," crows Betty, "they gotta get insurance policies...
Died. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, 72, tireless prohibitionist, founder (1919) of the World League Against Alcoholism, onetime editor of Anti-Saloon League publications (The American Issue, The American Patriot); of cancer; in Worthington, Ohio...
Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...
...when a strange figure in black broadcloth, a glossy plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...
Reston conceded that federal officials had their troubles, including the presence of official Soviet correspondents at their press conferences* and such domestic nuisances as "scoop artists, gossip mongers and saloon-rail journalists." But that had nothing to do with the case. "The people have to be adequately informed ... in spite of these problems, and the Government is not doing what it could to keep informing them...