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LUCY’S THIN BLUE LINE

Lucy and Law Enforcement ~ Part 1

For a simple housewife and a bandleader, Lucy and Ricky got involved with the police on a surprising number of occasions. Here’s a line-up of Lucy’s encounters with the men in blue. 

“Liz Learns To Drive” (1948) ~ Liz (Lucille Ball) goes to the police station to get her driver’s license. The officer is played by Frank Nelson.

NELSON: “Name?” LIZ: “Elizabeth Cugat.” NELSON: “Address?” LIZ: “321 Bundy.” NELSON: “Race?” LIZ: “Of course not!  I don’t even have a driver’s license!”

After much rhetorical to-ing and fro-ing, he takes her fingerprints and gives her the eye test:

NELSON: “Read the letters on the wall over there.” LIZ: “M-E-N.”

Later in the complicated plot, Liz finds herself back at the police station, this time being questioned by Sergeant Lewis (Herb Vigran). She’s a suspect in a murder case!

“Safe Driving Week” (1950) ~ Liz is pulled over by a motorcycle cop (Sheldon Leonard), although she’s unclear why. He says that Liz made the wrong arm signal when turning left. When Liz asks what he is writing, he facetiously calls it a story for Reader’s Digest about ‘The Most Unforgettable Person I’ve Ever Met’!  Naturally, it is a traffic ticket. Later, Liz passes a car on the wrong side of the road because she’s three feet from the left curb!  A policeman pulls them over - the same officer who issued Liz the ticket. To explain her driving on the left, Liz decides to adopt a British accent. 

LIZ: “Pip-pip, cheerio, hallo there, Bobbie!”

The Officer tests her by asking her to sing the British Anthem. Liz sings “London Bridge is Falling Down.” The policeman insists on driving the car away from the curb, but runs over his own motorcycle in the process!  Liz drives away, leaving the motorcycle cop in tears, clutching only his handlebars. 

“New Neighbors” (1952) ~ Believing their new neighbors are dangerous spies, Lucy forms a militia and calls the police. Sergeant Morton (Allen Jenkins) is nearly killed when they open fire at the sound of the doorbell!

LUCY: “These people are agents of some foreign government!”  SERGEANT MORTON: “What’s their name?”  LUCY: “O’Brien!”

Morton apathetically ask if she's been nipping at the cooking sherry.

David Allen Curtis Jenkins (Sergeant Morton) made a career out of playing policemen and tough guys in films throughout the '30s and '40s including Five Came Back (1939) with Lucille Ball. This was the first of his three appearances as a policeman on “I Love Lucy.”  From 1961-62, Jenkins voice Officer Dribble on the animated series “Top Cat”. 

“The Courtoom” (1952) ~ Robert B. Williams played the Bailiff. Williams was a busy Hollywood day player who had recurring roles on "Dennis the Menace" and "Hazel." His last role was as Garth Gimble Sr. (Martin Mull's father) on "Fernwood Tonight" in 1977.

“Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (1953) ~ Ricky creates pandemonium at the hospital by showing up for the birth of his son in full Voodoo make-up!  Ralph Montgomery plays the policeman called to the scene. He had appeared with Lucille Ball in the 1949 film Sorrowful Jones.

“Ricky and Fred are TV Fans” (1953) ~ When they are caught stealing from a diner cash register and trying to cut the wires to their apartment building, Lucy and Ethel are hauled down to the station (Precinct 31) by Officer Jenkins (Allen Jenkins) where they encounter Desk Sergeant Nelson (Frank Nelson). This is not the first time these actors have worn blue for Desilu - nor the last. 

“The Girls Go Into Business” (1953) ~ Emory Parnell plays the cop on the beat. Although this is his only series appearance, the veteran character actor was in three films with Lucille Ball and seven with William Frawley.  

“Equal Rights” (1953) ~ The arresting officers are played by Fred Aldrich (left), who appeared in four other episodes, and Louis Nicoletti, who was a veteran of 15 episodes. 

When Ricky and Fred are jailed, the police officer in the final scene is Richard Reeves, who played Bill Foster for two episodes, but was also seen as the tall Indian in “The Indian Show” (1953).

“Too Many Crooks” (1953) ~ When the building is in an uproar over the identity of Madam X, a policeman arrives to sort things out. Once again, the officer on the scene is played by Allen Jenkins. 

“Tennessee Bound” (1955) ~ While driving too quickly through Tennessee, the gang is arrested by the Sheriff of Bent Fork, played by Will Wright. He previously played Mr. Walters, the locksmith from Yonkers in “The Handcuffs” (1953). In 1949, he appeared with Lucille Ball in the film Miss Grant Takes Richmond.

“Lucy Visits Graumans” (1955) ~ While trying to steal John Wayne’s footprints, Lucy and Ethel are interupted by two cops on the beat, who indulge themselves trying to fit their feet into the cement shoe prints of celebrities. Clarence Straight and Ben Neims play the policemen. This is just one of many law enforcement officials Straight played throughout his career. Neims also played an officer (of another sort) on the S.S. Consitution in “Bon Voyage” (1956). His final role was as a Police Chief in the 1974 film Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. 

“The Great Train Robbery” (1956) ~ The plainclothes Police Detective is played by Joseph Crehan, who had previously appeared with Lucille Ball in There Goes My Girl (1937), Ziegfeld Follies (1947), and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). Throughout his fifty year screen career he played Ulysses S. Grant nine times!

“Paris at Last” (1956) ~ Lucy is implicated in a conterfeiting scheme and arrested. Trevor Ward plays the gendarme who arrests Lucy for passing the fake Francs. He had just appeared as the Cockney groom at the English country estate in “The Fox Hunt” (1956) two episodes earlier. In real life Ward was not French, American, or English – he was Welsh!  

At the police station, two more gendarmes are introduced. Ramsay Hill plays the police desk sergeant who only speaks French. This is his one and only role on the series, but he served as technical adviser on the 1947 film Lured starring Lucille Ball..Johnny Mylong plays the gendarme who speaks both French and German. He soon returns to the series as the Casino Manager in “Lucy Goes To Monte Carlo” (1956).

“Lucy’s Bicycle Trip” (1956) ~ Biking along the Med, Lucy encounters Border Control Officers for Italy and France. Henry Dar Boggia (left) plays the Italian Border Guard. Francis Ravel (in the booth) plays the French Border Guard.  Felix Romano plays the Italian Border Guard who comes on duty in the episode’s final moments.  For the record, Border Guards are considered Law Enforcement Officials in both France and Italy. 

“Return Home from Europe” (1956) ~ Frank Nelson plays the Customs Officer who tries to solve the mystery of the cheese / baby. Nelson will soon take on his second recurring role on the series as Ralph Ramsey. A Customs Officer is considered a  federal law enforcement officer.

“Visitor from Italy” (1956) ~ James Flavin plays the Immigration Officer searghing for Mario (Jay Novello). Flavin also appeared with Novello in “Lucy and the Safe Cracker” (1962) where he played a cop named Sergeant Wilcox. He returned two episodes later to play Sergeant Wilcox again in another bank-themed episode, “Lucy and the Bank Scandal” (1963). Flavin appeared in four films with Lucille Ball, including playing a police sergeant in Without Love (1945). During his long career he played so many officers of the law that his IMDB photo is of him in a police uniform!  

“Lucy Hunts Uranium” (1958) ~ Racing through the Nevada desert the Ricardos and Fred MacMurray are pulled over by a motorcyle cop in this press photo for the episode. 

“Lucy Goes to Mexico” (1958) ~ Returning to San Diego, Lucy and Ethel get stopped by a Border Guard played by Charles Lane, who suspects they may be smugglers. 

In the opening scene, a Tijuana traffic cop tries to keep order when a donkey painted like a zebra rests in the middle of a busy street!  The actor appears uncredited. 

“Lucy Upsets the Williams Household” (1959) ~ Lucy and Desi play the Ricardos on “Make Room for Daddy” aka “The Danny Thomas Show”.  Lucy gets in trouble with the law when out on a shopping spree. The policeman is played by an uncredited performer. 

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NIGHTWISH's TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN Doesn't Rule Out Second Solo Album

In a new interview with Finland's Tuonela magazine, Tuomas Holopainen — the keyboardist and main songwriter of NIGHTWISH — was asked if there is a chance of a follow-up to his solo album based on a graphic novel called "The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck", written and illustrated by Don Rosa. "Music Inspired By The Life And Times Of Scrooge - Written And Produced By Tuomas Holopainen" came out in April 2014 via Nuclear Blast.

Tuomas said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's not that long ago that I had this idea — it's kind of a musical idea — that I got really excited about. And I was thinking we can't do this with AURI and we can't really do this with NIGHTWISH either. So maybe another solo project kind of thing at some point in the future. I don't know. It's so early still, but maybe.

"After I finished doing 'Scrooge' 10 years ago, I thought this was a one-timer," he continued. "'Never again. Don't really need [to do another one]. But if there comes an idea that doesn't fit AURI or NIGHTWISH, maybe I have to go solo again. And both bands are musically so varied that you can do almost anything with those two labels. But if the theme would be something that the other bandmembers can't really relate to, then I might have to turn to the option of going solo. That's what happened with 'Scrooge'. I mean, the NIGHTWISH members don't have such an intimate relationship with a duck as I do. [Laughs] So that's why I had to go solo."

Regarding the possibility of him performing material from "The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck" live at some point, Tuomas said: "Um, I don't know. It would be an interesting experience. I know that album has a bit of a cult status already and that it would be a success. But at the moment, I'm not really feeling it. But I've learned never to say never. So let's see.

"I've been asked to do the whole album a few times, actually, even on main stage of a rock and roll festival on Saturday night," he added. "I don't think it would have worked, but we have to wait and see."

"Music Inspired By The Life And Times Of Scrooge - Written And Produced By Tuomas Holopainen" contained 10 songs, with total duration of approximately 60 minutes. The music was said to be in the soundtrack / classical / folk genre in the vein of Vaughan Williams, Michael Nyman, James Newton Howard and Enya.

Pip Williams did the orchestral arrangements for the "Life And Times Of Scrooge" disc, continuing his collaboration with Tuomas after the NIGHTWISH records "Once", "Dark Passion Play" and "Imaginaerum".

There were a number of guest musicians appearing on "Life And Times Of Scrooge", including the London Orchestra, The Metro Voices (a choir from London) and four lead vocalists: Alan Reid, Johanna Kurkela, Johanna Iivanainen and Tony Kakko. Other guest appearances included Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, low whistles, bodhran),Mikko Iivanainen (guitars and banjo),Teho Majamäki (didgeridoo),Jon Burr (harmonica) and Dermot Crehan on the solo violin. The recordings took place during August - October 2013, first at Angel Studios in London, then in various locations around Scotland and Finland.

NIGHTWISH's new album, "Yesterwynde", is due on September 20, 2024 via Nuclear Blast. It marks the band's tenth studio LP, following on from the release of "Human. :II: Nature." in 2020.

Photo credit: Tim Tronckoe (courtesy of Nuclear Blast)

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I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957) – Episode 153 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“All right now, we’ll move in stagger fashion. We’ll circle the outer edges first and keep going round and round till we meet in the center.” And that’s called a “search grid?” Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they go for the winning combination of mad scientist and teenage angst in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 153 – I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

A troubled teenager seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.

  Director: Gene Fowler Jr.

Writers: Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel

Makeup Creator: Phillip Scheer

Selected Cast:

Michael Landon as Tony Rivers

Yvonne Lime as Arlene Logan

Whit Bissell as Dr. Alfred Brandon

Charles Willcox as Jimmy (as Tony Marshall)

Dawn Richard as Theresa

Barney Phillips as Detective Donovan

Ken Miller as Vic

Cynthia Chenault as Pearl (as Cindy Robbins)

Michael Rougas as Frank

Robert Griffin as Police Chief P.F. Baker

Joseph Mell as Dr. Hugo Wagner

Malcolm Atterbury as Charles Rivers

Eddie Marr as Doyle

Vladimir Sokoloff as Pepe the Janitor

Louise Lewis as Principal Ferguson

S. John Launer as Bill Logan (as John Launer)

Guy Williams as Officer Chris Stanley

Dorothy Crehan as Mrs. Mary Logan

A young Michael Landon, just a few years before rising to fame as “Little Joe” Cartwright in Bonanza, stars as Tony Rivers, a troubled teen struggling with anger management. Whit Bissell is featured as Dr. Alfred Brandon,  a psychologist (or mad scientist) with ulterior motives. Yes! Oh, yes, indeed! It’s the AIP/Herman Cohen campy classic, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. The Grue-Crew is in full Drive-In Theater mode for this one.

High-quality versions of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, streaming or physical media, are not available, but there is a reason. Susan Hart, the actress and widow of AIP co-founder James Nicholson, owns the rights to eleven AIP films outright: It Conquered the World (1956) and its remake Zontar, The Thing from Venus (1966); Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) and its remake The Eye Creatures (1965); I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957); I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957); The Amazing Colossal Man (1957); Terror from the Year 5000 (1958); Apache Woman (1955); The Oklahoma Woman (1956); and Naked Paradise (1957). She frequently negotiates rights for merchandise and theatrical showings, but physical media has not been updated for release in decades. You can, however, purchase a VHS tape of the movie.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Chad, is The Wasp Woman (1959). Yes, they’re sticking with 1950s B-movies, but moving from AIP/Herman Cohen on to Film Group/Roger Corman!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

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From the Golden Age of Television

Season 1 Episode 3

Those Whiting Girls - Barbara Goes to Charm School - CBS - July 18, 1955

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written By Peggy Chantler

Produced by Samuel Marx

Directed by James V. Kern

Stars:

Margaret Whiting as Margaret Whiting

Barbara Whiting as Barbara Whiting

Mabel Albertson as Mrs. Whiting

Beverly Long as Daisy Dunbar

Norma Varden as Miss LaVerne

Joseph Crehan as Mr. Crandall

Chet Marshall as David Crandall

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Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #238

Making a Scene Brings you Turn it Up with Gerry Casey Show #238 with his Guest Seth James Johnny & The Drivers  If I Should Stumble Shotgun Mistress  Shot Down FM  Out Of The Blue Trapper Schoepp  Kate Blood Eimear Crehan  To Be Loved Alice Armstrong  Life I chose The Ruby Tuesdays  Feel It These Wicked Rivers  The Family Mike Zito  Nobody Moves Me Like You Do Seth James  Who’s Foolin’…

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Trailer Project 25-26/04/23

As we didn't want the same actor playing 2 roles, we re-shot my scenes with taylor with the help of Luke Sweeney Crehan ( @k00282818 ) and his brother, Dylan (@k00282801) . James Kearney (@k00285376) agreed to step in as Jack, the father character.

Over the past 2 days our group has been hard at work in the prop department, as well as preparing for the large prom scene. We got the idea to cut out pngs of people dancing and attatch them to sticks, to a backdrop of the church.

Each of the other group members created their own banner as doubles for Emily to tear down as Duckie.

Emily: @k00285091

Linda: @k00279983

Abby: @k00282421

Ciara: @k00277044

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An interesting scene and a lovely Technicolor, all star extravaganza.

With sexy Mistress Lucy!😍

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, MGM, 1946. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Camera: George Folsey. With Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, William Powell, Edward Arnold, Marion Bell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, William Frawley, Robert Lewis, Virginia O'Brien, Keenan Wynn, Bunin's Puppets, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Ames, Karin Booth, Helen Boyce, Lucille Casey, Elise Cavanna, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., Naomi Childers, Charles Coleman, Aina Constant, Joseph Crehan, William B. Davidson, Jack Deery, Frances Donelan, Natalie Draper, Eddie Dunn, Rex Evans, Sam Flint, Sam Garrett, Sidney Gordon, Aileen Haley, Carol Haney, Grady Sutton, Audrey Totter, Peter Lawford.

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Mark Lockheart - Days on Earth

Saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart first came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential big band Loose Tubes. Since then he has played a prominent role in Polar Bear and worked with many of the Jazz greats. Days on Earth is his most ambitious album to date, wrapping 25 years of musical and life influences into a one career-defining album. 

Days On Earth epitomises the eclectic mix of influences and genres that have shaped Lockheart’s concepts - from the expansive improvising and lush soundscapes of Polar Bear to 70’s funk, African Kora type harp melodies and soaring strings. “The day we embarked on the recording of Days On Earth, 13th December 2017, I had been on Earth for 20,711 days. This also means that I’ve been on Earth for 2,958 weeks, 680 months, 497,000 hours, 30 million minutes and not far shy of 2 billion seconds. This record is a culmination of many of those experiences over the 2 billion seconds that I’ve been eating, sleeping, thinking, playing and composing music. Music is intrinsically connected to life, love and joy.” MARK LOCKHEART MARK LOCKHEART tenor sax ALICE LEGGETT alto sax LIAM NOBLE piano JOHN PARRICELLI guitar TOM HERBERT bass SEBASTIAN ROCHFORD drums 30 piece orchestra conducted by JOHN ASHTON THOMAS VIOLINS: Jackie Shave (leader), Warren Zielinski, Rita Manning, Tom Piggot Smith, Magnus Johnston, Marije Johnston, Katherine Shave, Patrick Kiernan, Shlomy Dobrinsky, Tom Crehan, Ruth Ehrlich, William Hillman, Matthew Ward VIOLAS: Bruce White, Oli Langford, Clare Finnimore, Paul Cassidy, Ruth Gibson CELLOS: Caroline Dearnley, Jonathan Tunnell, Jacqueline Thomas, David Daniels HARP: Helen Tunstall CLARINETS: Nick Rodwell and James Allsopp FLUTES: Anna Noakes and Roland Sutherland FFRENCH HORNS: Jim Rattigan and Laurence Davies TRUMPETS: Pat White and Toby Street and Laura Jurd on tracks 4 & 7 TROMBONE: Alistair White BASS TROMBONE: Andy Wood

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Iniquity from Oliver Goodrum on Vimeo.

Michael is on the brink of a new start in life: a first real relationship and a stable job in a town where no-one knows him. Until his name returns to the news and his dream of anonymity starts to crumble, leaving him scrambling to keep his past hidden — and his new life safe. (Spanish subtitles available).

"Iniquity" is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/iniquity-by-oliver-goodrum/

Official Selection at Alcine, Cambridge, Shenzhen, Anchorage, Shanghai, Manchester, Hong Kong, Jacksonville Film Festivals and Nominee at the British Short Film Awards.

Director: Oliver Goodrum Writers: Alexander Craig (alexander-craig.com) & Oliver Goodrum Producer: Luke Goodrum Co Producers: Jane Yatsuta & Darren Skulsky (Radioaktive Film) Exec Producer: Lucas A Ferrara Associate Producer: Richard Martin

Casting: Georgia Topley at Des Hamilton Casting

Featuring: Richard Crehan, Mariona Tena, Samantha Seager, Austin Haynes, Alex Draper, Patrick O'Brien, Darryl Forster, Mackenzie Kai Clarke, Bamshed Abedi-Amen, Jude Claybourne, Nina Beagley, Sophie Farquhur, Lucy Brown, with Theo Barklem-Biggs and Gary Beadle.

Cinematographer: James Blann - jamesblanndop.co.uk Production Designer: Kelly Sinclair Smith - instagram.com/studiosinclairsmith/ Costumer Designer: Sophie O'Neill - sophie-oneill.com Make Up Designer: Michelle Hutley

Grade: Toby Tomkins / Cheat It - cheatit.co VFX: Seb Barker / Automatik - automatik-vfx.com Sound: Ines Adriana - inesadriana.com Music: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres - ah-a.co.uk

Unit Manager: Sara Fawsitt 1st AD: Wayne Bentley PM: Claire Adcock

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“Cadi Thinks Bootleg Fines Should Equal Hotel Fees,” Toronto Star. May 13, 1941. Page 33. ---- Charge of Selling Against Woman Reduced, But She Pays $100 --- POLICE COURT NEWS ---- ‘D’ Police Court, at City Hall, Magistrate Prentice. ‘I think I will have to increase the fines in these cases to keep them somewhere in line with the licenses the hotel pay,’ said Magistrate Prentice. He fined Cors Cohen, D’Arcy St., $100 or 30 days when she pleaded guilty of having liquor in an illegal place. The charge was reduced from keeping for sale when she consented to plead guilty on the other count.

Edward Churley was fined $50 or 30 days for having liquor in an illegal place, and William Vardy was fined $20 or 30 days on a similar charge. Both were at the same hours. They pleaded guilty.

‘We found 12 men drinking,’ said Provincial Office A.M. Shaughnessy. ‘They were from a nearby munitions plant. We found 20 bottles of beer and liquor.’

Joseph Silverstone was penalized $50 or 30 days for having liquor in an illegal place.

‘He pulled directly across Jarvis St., from the curb and ran into the side of the police car,’ P.C. W. Jarman testified against John Roscoe, charged with careless driving and not having a driver’s license. ‘He is only 17.’

‘I lost control of the car,’ said accused.

‘You hit the wrong car,’ observed Magistrate Prentice.

‘I’m from the west,’ pleaded accused, ‘and it was only my second day in the city. I came here to get work and I was driving for a taxi company.’

‘I’ll remand you for sentence on the careless driving charge,’ decided his worship, ‘and fine you $10 or 10 days on the other charge.’

TWO GET MAXIMUM --- ‘A’ Police Court at the City Hall, Judge O’Connell The maximum term of six months in jail was imposed upon James Hotchkiss and Harold Crehan. Each was convicted of stealing three windbreakers, valued at less than $25. Hotchkiss’ record dates from 1919 and Crehan’s from 1930.

Det. William Bolton stated that he and Det. O’Driscoll observed the two enter a Queen St. W. store on May 15. ‘They approached a group of men and asked one to purchase a windbreaker. Searching Crehan, we found two windbreakers, and Hotchkiss had one. They did not give a satisfactory answer as to where they got them,’ Bolton related.

Harry Miller identified the windbreakers as stolen from his store.

‘All I have to say is that I am not guilty,’ said Albert Fisher, when called to answer a charge of smashing two windows, the property of George Silver, Dundas St. E.

S. Gostich stated the accused was ordered out of the hamburger stand and then threw two bricks breaking the windows.

G. Silver stated the windows were valued at about $85. Fisher was convicted and remanded in custody until May 19 for sentence.

WOMAN’S BAIL $3,000 --- ‘C’ Police Court, at the City Hall, Magistrate Forsyth. Mrs. Emma Passerello, charged with manslaughter following a week-end accident at Jarvis and Queen Sts., was remanded until May 27 and allowed bail of $3,000. The remand was made to allow the crown to obtain more witnesses.

Maureen Stoutley, convicted of malicious damage, was sentenced to 14 days in jail. Mrs. Stoutley the magistrate said had done $70 damage when she threw a pop bottle through a window of a hamburger shop.

George Moise pleaded not guilty of theft but guilty of receiving stolen goods. He also admitted a breach of the National Registration Act. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 months in jail on the theft charge, six months for receiving and three months on the registration charge, all to run concurrently.

The accused admitted a long previous record under the names of George Worts, Frank Merill and Larry Merrill, and served three years in penitentiary for theft. He served shorter terms for theft, receiving stolen goods and breaking and entering.

Mrs. Margaret Bromley testified that her club-bag, containing two dresses and a pair of evening shoes, had been stolen from St. Martin-in-the-Field church.

Det.-Sergt. Black testified accused had three registration cards, under the names of George Moise, Charles Brown, and George Worts.

HIT EX-SOLDIER, FINED ---- ‘B’ Police Court, at the City Hall, Magistrate Browne. Thomas Clarke was charged with assaulting Manny Esco, who stated, he had enlisted in September, 1939, was injured overseas and was discharged in February, 1941. About 2:30 a.m. Sunday, April 27, he was on his way to a lunchroom, he said, when he had been called a name by accused, who had struck him over the eye and in the face. He had later been followed into the restaurant and again struck by accused. ‘I was injured overseas and could nto defend myself. My ears still hurt,’ said Esco.

‘I was never inside that restaurant,’ emphatically declared Clarke.

Samuel Mairs, Lambton Mills, stated he had seen accused and his wife leave another restaurant and had overhead all that had happened. ‘Clarke did not go into the restaurant,’ he declared.

‘There will be a conviction,’ said the bench. ‘$20 or 30 days.’

Convicted of theft of a cushion left on a back porch to air by Mrs. A. Lassmore, 152 Oakwood Ave., Harry Strasberg, a rag collector 30 years in Canada with a prior good record, was sentenced to seven days in jail.

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since people seemed interested, the full list is below - dm me if you want any of these

Textbooks

An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology, 4th Edition [pdf]

Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th Edition [pdf]

Critical Security Studies: An Introduction – Columba Peoples, Nick Vaughan-Williams [pdf]

Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument – Stella Cottrell [pdf]

Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox, 3rd Edition [pdf]

Human Rights, Human Security, and State Security: The Intersection, Volume 1 [pdf]

International Security Studies: Theory and Practice [pdf]

Leadership and Culture: Comparative Models of Top Civil Servant Training [pdf]

Essential Medical Statistics, 2nd ed – Betty R. Kirkwood and Jonathan A.C. Sterne [pdf]

Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Theory and Practice – Sorpong Peou [pdf]

Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, 2nd ed [pdf]

Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific?: The Rise of China, Sino-US Competition and Regional Middle Power Allegiance – Enrico Fels [pdf]

The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research – eds Alex P. Schmid [pdf]

The United Nations in the 21st Century, 4th ed – eds Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns

Health, medicine and epidemiology

A New Health and Care System: Escaping the Invisible Asylum – Alex Fox [pdf]

Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors – Caroline Elton [epub]

African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems – Godfrey B. Tangwa [pdf]

Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts – Frederic Keck [pdf]

Epidemiology and the People’s Health – Nancy Krieger [pdf]

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic – Julie Livingston [pdf]

Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation – Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. [pdf]

Living With Germs: In Health and Disease – John Playfair [pdf]

Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China – Mary Augusta Brazelton [pdf]

Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty – Thomas J. Ward and H. Jack Geiger [pdf]

Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology in France, Its Colonies, and the World – Aro Velmet [pdf]

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 – John DiMoia [pdf]

The Return of the Sun: Suicide and Reclamation Among Inuit of Arctic Canada – Michael J. Kral [pdf]

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic – David Quammen [epub]

Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge and Communicative Justice – Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs  [pdf]

The African AIDS Epidemic: A History – John Iliffe [pdf]

The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventative Medicine – Anne Hardy [pdf]

The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease – Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobsen, Charles B. Smith [pdf]

Very Short Introductions

Animal behaviour: A Very Short Introduction [epub]

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction – Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [epub]

Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction – Bernard Wood [epub]

Other nonfiction

After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconcilliation on America’s Stolen Lands – Margaret Jacobs [epub]

Against the Logic of the Guillotine – Crimethinc [epub]

All About Love – bell hooks [pdf]

An Army Like No Other – Haim Bresheeth-Zabner [epub]

Beauty – Roger Scruton [epub]

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny – Michael Tomasello [pdf]

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer [epub]

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory – David Graeber [pdf] [epub]

Causal Inference: What If – Miguel A Hernan and James M. Robins [pdf]

Cleverlands – Lucy Crehan [pdf]

Debt: The First 5000 Years – David Graeber [pdf] [epub]

English Pastoral: An Inheritance – James Rebanks [pdf]

Entangled Life – Merlin Sheldrake [pdf]

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson [pdf]

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement – Monica M White [pdf]

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology – Adrienne Mayor [epub]

How I Became a Tree – Sumana Roy [epub]

How to Run a Government – Michael Barber [epub]

How Traditions Live and Die – Olivier Morin [pdf]

How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century – Erik Olin Wright [epub]

I Belong Here – Anita Sethi [epub]

Ice Rivers – Jemma L. Wadham [epub]

Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species – Ursula K. Heise [pdf]

Motherwell: A Girlhood – Deborah Orr [epub]

Orientalism – Edward W. Said [pdf]

Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America – Mary L. Gray [pdf]

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager – Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore & James Wood [pdf]

Queer Aztlan: the Re-formation of Chicano Tribe – Cherrie Moraga [pdf]

Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children: Social Relations in a Multi-Ethnic, Inner-City Primary School – Paul Connolly [pdf]

Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction – Graciana del Castillo [pdf]

Re-imagining Schooling for Education: Socially Just Alternatives – Glenda McGregor, Martin Mills, Kitty te Riele, Aspa Baroutsis, Debra Hayes [pdf]

Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security – Masanobu Fukuoka [epub]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff [pdf

The Aims of Education – ed.  Roger Marples [pdf]

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist – Ben Barres [pdf]

The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van Der Kolk [pdf]

The Glitter in the Green – Jon Dunn [epub]

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh [epub]

The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine – Eric Plemons [pdf]

The Old Ways – Robert Macfarlane [epub]

The Popes Against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy – Kevin Madigan [epub]

The Right to be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change – Sheila Watt-Cloutier [pdf]

The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People – Clive Aslet [epub]

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy – David Graeber [pdf]

There’s a War Going on But No One Can See It – Huib Modderkolk [epub]

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern – Mary Beard [pdf]

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men – Lundy Bancroft [pdf] [epub]

With, Without, or Against the State?: How European Regions Play the Brussels Game – Michael Tatham [pdf]

Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World – Bonnie Biafore & Tereas Stover [pdf]

Classics

A House of Pomegranates – Oscar Wilde [epub]

Black Skin, White Masks – Franz Fanon [epub] [pdf]

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh [epub]

Burmese Days – George Orwell [epub]

Claudius the God – Robert Graves [epub]

De Profundis – Oscar Wilde [epub]

Essays and Lectures – Oscar Wilde [epub]

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin [epub]

Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell [epub]

Intentions – Oscar Wilde [epub]

Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, The Picture of Mr W.H., and Other Stories – Oscar Wilde [epub]

Medea of Euripides – trans Gilbert Murray [epub]

News from Nowhere – William Morris [epub]

Poems, with the Ballad of Reading Gaol – Oscar Wilde [epub]

The Crucible – Arthur Miller [epub]

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women – Wayetu Moore [epub]

The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell [epub]

The Naked Civil Servant – Quentin Crisp [epub]

The Soul of Man Under Socialism – Oscar Wilde [epub]

The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois [epub]

The Wretched of the Earth – Franz Fanon [epub]

Tristes Tropiques – Claude Levi-Strauss [epub]

Waterlily – Ella Cara Deloria [epub]

Lesbian stuff

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing – eds Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney [pdf]

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold – Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis [pdf]

Butch Is a Noun – S. Bear Bergman [pdf]

Butch-Fem Relationships: Sexual Courage in the 1950s – Joan Nestle [pdf]

Dagger: On Butch Women – eds Lily Burana, Roxxie, Linnea Due [pdf]

Female Masculinity – J. Jack Halberstam [pdf]

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, an Anthology – eds Irene Reti & Valerie Jean Chase [pdf]      

Ladies’ Almanack – Djuna Barnes [pdf]

My Butch Career: A Memoir – Esther Newton [pdf]

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America – Lilian Faderman [pdf]

On Butch and Femme: Compiled Readings – I.M. Epstein [pdf]

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme – eds Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman [pdf] [epub]

S/He – Minnie Bruce Pratt [pdf]

Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg [pdf]

The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms – JoAnn Loulan [pdf]

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader – ed Joan Nestle [pdf]

Tomboy Survival Guide – Ivan E. Coyote [pdf]

What We’re Rollin Around in Bed With – Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga [pdf]

When We Were Outlaws – Jeanne Cordova [pdf]

General fiction

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz [epub]

At Night All Blood Is Black – David Diop [epub]

Black Buck – Mateo Askaripour [epub]

Book Lovers – Emily Henry [epub]

Afterparties – Anthony Veasna So [epub]

After the Revolution – Robert Evans [epub]

Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi [epub]

How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue [epub]

In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado [epub]

Maxwell’s Demon – Steven Hall [epub]

Salt Slow – Julia Armfield [epub]

The Thirty Names of Night – Zeyn Joukhadar [epub]

Science fiction & fantasy

Exit Strategy – Martha Wells [epub]

Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson [epub]

Hammers on Bone – Cassandra Khaw [epub]

Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir [epub]

Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir [epub]

Kingdom of the Wicked – Kerri Maniscalco [epub]

Riot Baby – Tochi Onyebuchi [epub]

Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells [epub]

Silk Fire – Zabe Ellor [epub]

Silver in the Woods – Emily Tesh [epub]

Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo [epub]

The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson [epub]

The Bands of Mourning – Brandon Sanderson [epub]

The Border Keeper – Kerstin Hall [epub]

The Collapsing Empire – John Scalzi [epub]

The Unspoken Name – A.K. Larkwood [epub]

The Wicked King – Holly Black [epub]

The Haunting of Tram Car 15 – P. Djeli Clark [epub]

The Infinite Noise – Lauren Shippen [epub]

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps – Kai Ashante Wilson [epub]

The Widow Queen – Elzbieta Cherezinska [epub]

Tooth and Claw – Jo Walton [epub]

Upright Women Wanted – Sarah Gailey [epub]

Victories Greater Than Death – Charlie Jane Anders [epub]

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain – Nghi Vo [epub]

Wild Magic – Tamora Pierce [pdf]

Wolf-Speaker – Tamora Pierce [pdf]

Emperor Mage – Tamora Pierce [pdf]

The Realms of the Gods – Tamora Pierce [pdf]

Cooking

Nosh for Students 4th ed – Joy May [epub]

One Pan-Wonders – Cook’s Country/America’s Test Kitchen [epub]

Plenty – Yotam Ottolenghi [epub]

Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus – Yasmin Khan

Ripe Recipes: A Third Helping – Angela Redfern & Ripe Deli [other]

Roasting Pan Suppers – Rosie Sykes [epub]

Sheet Pan Suppers – Molly Gilbert [pdf]

Sheet Pan Suppers Meatless – Raquel Pelzel [epub]

The Green Roasting Tin – Rukmini Iyer [epub]

The Roasting Tin – Rukmini Iyer [epub]

Veg: Easy Delicious Meals for Everyone – Jamie Oliver [epub]

Vegan Roasting Pan – Katy Beskow [epub]

Other

Meanwhile… Graphic Short Stories About Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa [pdf]

Mercies – Anne Sexton [pdf]

DnD 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide [pdf]

DnD 5e Player’s Handbook [pdf]

Persepolis Volume 1 – Marjane Satrapi [pdf]

Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook, Revised Edition – David Werner with Carol Thuman & Jane Maxwell [pdf]

with zlib gone (and none of the alternatives is really anywhere near as good, let's be honest) if any of my mutuals want my pdfs/epubs just drop me a message. I have a whole bunch of recipe books, nonfiction, academic books (esp. public health/epidemiology and anthropology), some literary fiction and various lesbian history classics. I can also post a full list if that's interesting to anyone, but I won't post links publicly to avoid getting the wrong kind of attention

[papermoonloveslucy]

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

April 8, 1946

Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth. Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney,  Norman Taurog, Charles Walters. Robert Lewis Producer: Arthur Freed for Metro Goldwyn Mayer

The shooting schedule ran between April 10 and August 18, 1944, with retakes plus additional segments filmed on December 22, 1944 and then between January 25 and February 6, 1945. The film was first proposed in 1939. 

Synopsis ~ We meet a grayed, immaculately garbed Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. in Paradise (his diary entry reads "Another heavenly day"), where he looks down upon the world and muses over the sort of show he'd be putting on were he still alive.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball ('Here's to the Ladies') is appearing in her 64th film since coming to Hollywood in 1933. 

Fred Astaire ('Here's to the Ladies' / Raffles in 'This Heart of Mine' / Tai Long in 'Limehouse Blues’ / Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), and Follow the Fleet (1936). His name was mentioned twice on “I Love Lucy.”

Lucille Bremer (Princess in 'This Heart of Mine' / Moy Ling in 'Limehouse Blues') 

Fanny Brice (Norma Edelman in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') appeared in the original stage version of many editions of The Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway.

Judy Garland (The Star in 'A Great Lady Has An Interview') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943). 

Kathryn Grayson (Kathryn Grayson in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Lena Horne (Lena Horne in 'Love') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Gene Kelly (Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and A Guide for the Married Man (1967). He made an appearance on the Lucille Ball special “Lucy Moves to NBC” (1980).  

James Melton (Alfredo in 'La Traviata')

Victor Moore (Lawyer's Client in 'Pay the Two Dollars')

Red Skelton (J. Newton Numbskull in 'When Television Comes') also starred with Lucille Ball in Having Wonderful Time (1938), Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).  On TV he appeared on “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in “Lucy Goes To Alaska” (1958). Ball and Skelton appeared in numerous TV specials together. 

Esther Williams (Esther Williams in 'A Water Ballet') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946). 

William Powell (Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) also played the same character in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). 

Edward Arnold (Lawyer in 'Pay the Two Dollars') appeared with Lucille Ball in Roman Scandals (1933) and Ellis in Freedomland (1952).

Marion Bell (Violetta in 'La Traviata')

Cyd Charisse (Ballerina in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Hume Cronyn (Monty in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') was honored by The Kennedy Center in 1986, at the same ceremony as Lucille Ball. 

William Frawley (Martin in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') played the role of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”. He also appeared on “The Lucy Show,” his final screen appearance. 

Robert Lewis (Chinese Gentleman in 'Limehouse Blues' / Telephone Voice in 'Number Please')

Virginia O'Brien (Virginia O'Brien in 'Here's to the Ladies') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943),  Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and Meet The People (1944). 

Keenan Wynn (Caller in 'Number Please') appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946), Without Love (1945), and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). 

SUPPORTING CAST

Ziegfeld Girls

Karin Booth  

Lucille Casey  

Aina Constant  

Elizabeth Dailey  

Frances Donelan  

Natalie Draper  

Karen X. Gaylord  

Aileen Haley  

Carol Haney  

Shirlee Howard  

Margaret Laurence  

Helen O'Hara  

Noreen Roth  

Elaine Shepard  

Kay Thompson  

Dorothy Tuttle  

Dorothy Van Nuys  

Eve Whitney - appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15).

Dancers

Gloria Joy Arden

Jean Ashton  

Irene Austin  

Judi Blacque  

Bonnie Barlowe  

Norman Borine  

Hazel Brooks  

Ed Brown  

Kathleen Cartmill  

Jack Cavan  

Marilyn Christine  

Laura Corbay  

Rita Dunn  

Meredyth Durrell  

Shawn Ferguson  

Jeanne Francis  

Jean French  

Mary Jane French  

David Gray  

Bill Hawley  

Doreen Hayward  

Charlotte Hunter  

Virginia Hunter  

Patricia Jackson

Margaret Kays  

Laura Knight  

Laura Lane  

Dale Lefler  

Melvin Martin  

Diane Meredith  

Lorraine Miller  

Joyce Murray  

Janet Nevis  

Ray Nyles  

Billy O'Shay  

Jane Ray  

Dorothy Raye  

Beth Renner

Melba Snowden  

Walter Stane  

Ivon Starr  

Robert Trout  

Chorus Boys

Rod Alexander

Milton Chisholm  

Dick D'Arcy  

Dante DiPaolo  

Don Hulbert  

Herb Lurie  

Matt Mattox  

Bert May - appeared on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford”

Jack Purcell  

Tommy Rall  

Ricky Ricardi (!)

Alex Romero

“LIMEHOUSE BLUES” starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, and Robert Lewis

Robert Ames (Masked Man)  

James Barron (Couple with Banners)  

Eleanor Bayley (Couple with Branches)  

Mary Jo Ellis (Couple with Banners)  

Sean Francis (Ensemble)  

James King (Rooster)  

Harriet Lee (Bar Singer) 

Eugene Loring (Costermonger)  

Charles Lunard (Masked Man)  

Patricia Lynn (Ensemble)  

Ruth Merman (Ensemble)  

Garry Owen (1st Subway Policeman)  

Ellen Ray (Couple with Parasols)  

Jack Regas (Masked Man)  

Billy Shead (Couple with Parasols)  

Ronald Stanton (Couple with Branches)  

Wanda Stevenson (Ensemble)  

Ray Teal (2nd Subway Policeman)  

“LOVE” starring Lena Horne

Juliette Ball (Club Patron)   

Lennie Bluett (Dancer)   

Suzette Harbin (Flirt)   

Avanelle Harris (Club Patron)  

Maggie Hathaway (Dancer)  

Charles Hawkins (Club Patron)  

Marie Bryant (Woman Getting Her Man Taken)   

Cleo Herndon (Dancer)   

“THIS HEART OF MINE” starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer

Helen Boyce (Countess)   

Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (Lieutenant)

Naomi Childers (Duchess)

Charles Coleman (Majordomo)   

Sam Flint (Majordomo's Assistant)

Sidney Gordon (Masked Man)   

Count Stefenelli (Count)   

Robert Wayne (Dyseptic)   

“PAY THE TWO DOLLARS”  starring Edward Arnold and Victor Moore

William Bailey (Subway Passenger)

Joseph Crehan (1st Judge) - played a Detective on “I Love Lucy” “The Great Train Robbery”

William B. Davidson (2nd Judge)

Eddie Dunn (3rd Subway Policeman)   

Harry Hayden (Warden)   

George Hill (2nd Subway Policeman)   

Wilbur Mack (Subway Passenger)   

Larry Steers (Magistrate)

“NUMBER PLEASE” starring Keenan Wynn

Peter Lawford (Voice of Porky)

Grady Sutton (Texan)

Audrey Totter (Phone Operator Voice)

Kay Williams (Girl)

OTHERS

Bunin's Puppets

Elise Cavanna (Tall Woman)

Jack Deery (Man)

Rex Evans (Butler in "A Great Lady Has An Interview”)

Sam Garrett (Roping / Twirling Act)

Silver (Horse in "Here's to the Ladies') 

Arthur Walsh (Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket") - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11). 

‘FOLLIES’ TRIVIA

Sidney Guilaroff, Lucille Ball’s hair dresser, who takes responsibility for her famous ‘golden red’ for this movie, becoming her trademark color.

Although they appear in different segments, this is the only feature film collaboration between “I Love Lucy co-stars" Lucille Ball and William Frawley. Coincidently, Frawley's character in this film shares a striking similarity with his iconic character of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy.” In this film he plays a money-hungry curmudgeon of a landlord, much like the show. In the above photo, he appears with director Minnelli and co-star Brice. 

The horse ridden by Lucille Ball is the Lone Ranger's Silver!

Lucille Ball was actually fired by Ziegfeld from his road company production of Rio Rita in the 1930s.

In February 1956, Lucy and Desi appeared on “MGM Parade” to promote their MGM film Forever Darling. The show also included footage of Lena Horne singing from Ziegfeld Follies. 

Lucy also played a showgirl in pink in “Lucy Gets Into Pictures” (ILL S4;E19) aired on February 21, 1955. The scene was inspired by Ziegfeld’s legendary stage shows featuring beautiful women wearing elaborate costumes navigating long staircases. To solidify the comparison, Ricky says he is going to a meeting with Mr. Minnelli. Vincente Minnelli was one of the directors of Ziegfeld Follies. 

Lucy Ricardo had previously cavorted around in a lampshade in the manner of a Ziegfeld girl in both the unaired pilot and “The Audition” (S1;E6).

Ziegfeld Follies includes a sketch for Red Skelton called “When Television Comes” aka “Guzzler’s Gin” in which a (future) television spokesman gets increasingly sloshed on his product. This sketch was an obvious influence on Lucy’s Vitameatavegamin routine in “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30) aired on May 5, 1952. 

Ziegfeld Girl Eve Whitney appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15). She used her own name for the character.  

The Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket" Arthur Walsh - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11) as Arthur ‘King Cat’ Walsh. He teaches Lucy how to jitterbug. 

The first Judge in the “Pay the Two Dollars” James Crehan also played the Police Detective on “I Love Lucy in “The Great Train Robbery” (ILL S5;E5) first aired on October 31, 1955.

Porky, a voice on the telephone in “Number Please” Peter Lawford, played “Password” against Lucille Ball on September 24, 1964.  At the time, Lawford was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia. On November 26, 1968, Ball was a guest on “The Tonight Show” when Peter Lawford was sitting in for Johnny Carson.

Chorus Boy Bert May appeared as a solo dancer on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford” (TLS S5;E21) in February 1967. 

In the dressing room, Lucy jokes with Fanny Brice, one of the funniest women in showbusiness.  This was the only time Ball and Brice collaborated and was Brice’s last film. 

Ziegfeld’s follies began on Broadway, so it was appropriate that the show featured past and future Broadway musical stars:

Lucille Ball ~ Wildcat (1960)

Carol Haney ~ The Pajama Game (1954)

Tommy Rall ~ Call Me Madame (1950)

Fanny Brice ~ The Ziegfeld Follies 

Marion Bell ~ Brigadoon (1947)

Victor Moore ~ Anything Goes (1934)

There was a lot of material that was not filmed, but written and cast. Some of the original skits would have added “Lucy” performers Mickey Rooney, Ann Sothern, and Van Johnson to the cast.

[whorlslave39-blog]

The Levridge Flats - 172 West 77th Street

In 1892 developer George R. Dunn began construction on a five-story flat and store building on the southeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 77th Street.  It was designed by George Keister whose apartment buildings, private homes and resident hotels often overflowed with decorative elements.  That would not be the case with No. 172 West 77th Street, completed in 1894.  But while the overall design was, frankly, unremarkable, Keister included details which stand out.

The stone base included two shops--one opening onto the avenue, the doorway to the other nestling next to the main entrance on 77th Street.  The four stories of Roman brick above were enhanced by limestone bands and a stone cornice at the fourth floor.  Three slightly faceted metal bays on the avenue elevation added interest.  A projecting, bracketed cornice capped the design.

Keister strayed from his overall style with the Romanesque Revival granite capital of the ground floor corner pier.  Here two female faces--one with a slight smile, the other more serious--stare out from intricately carved floral forms.  Additionally, the areaway railings took on the Northern Renaissance style in their wonderful cast iron posts in the form of dragons.

Keister's most eye-catching detail, however, was the 77th Street entrance.  Here solid wing walls morphed to pedestals for stone columns, the straight fluting of which changed to spiral.  They upheld an entablature where charmingly carved with two chubby naked children play tug-of-war with a banner announcing the building's address.  Directly above, a stone balcony spanned the main entrance and that of the 77th Street shop.  It would originally have held an iron or stone railing

The closing off of the store entrance gives the balcony a decidedly off-kilter appearance.  

Dunn called his new building The Levridge.  The term "flats" or "French flats" was intended to distinguish such structures from tenements (although, technically, at the time there was no official difference).  It would be a few years before the term "apartments" came into wide-spread use.

Suites in The Levridge were spacious--either six or seven rooms each--and while tenants did not enjoy the amenities (like maid service) of more upscale buildings, advertisements did note "hall attendance."  (Hall attendants customarily wore uniforms and were on hand in case a resident needed help with packages or similar tasks.)  Rents ranged from $600 to $1,080 a year, or about $1,400 per month for the cheapest today.

The two stores were leased to M. Foster's drug store and C. H. Magna & Bro. grocery.  The Magna brothers, William and Clamor, operated two other grocery stores in the neighborhood, both on Columbus Avenue.

Most landlords on the Upper West Side happily accepted theater people--a group not welcomed in many parts of the city.  Consequently No. 172 (the name Levridge had been quickly dropped) became home to several well-known thespians.

By 1902 the Byron family lived here.  Oliver Doug Byron was described by The Evening World as "the well known actor," and his wife, Kate Byron,was "long a prominent figure on the American stage, according to The New York Herald years later.  Their son, Arthur, entered a stage career at the age of 17, in 1889.  The Evening World, on February 17, 1902 said he "comes naturally enough by his talent for acting."  Indeed, not only were Arthur's parents well-known by theater audiences, his aunt, Ada Rehan was a true star.

Kate's three siblings, Ada Rehan, William Crehan, and Hattie Russell, lived together in a house on West 93rd Street.  When William died late in 1903, Kate was appointed sole executor.  Crehan was apparently partial to Ada, for he gave Kate and Hattie each one-fourth of his estate, and Ada one-half.  Newspapers were most interested in a specific bequest, however.  On December 16 The New York Herald ran a headline "Leaves Parrot to Miss Ada Rehan."  The New York Times headline was similar and the article noted "Mr. Crehan also left his pet parrot, Poll, to Miss Rehan."

The fearsome cast iron railing posts no doubt have given toddlers the shudders for generations.

Two other residents involved in the theater were Max and Gertrude Hoffman.  Neither was an actor, but they produced plays and vaudeville acts.  On April 1, 1906, for instance, The Sun reported on a "the extra attraction" coming to the Hammerstein Theatre, called "The Swim."  "There will be produced for the first time in New York a singing and dancing act with fourteen people, arranged by Harry Williams and Max Hoffman, and staged by Gertrude Hoffman."

Gertrude's name appeared in newspapers for far different reasons on May 4, 1909.  The day before Antonio Pagliaro had been arrested and charged with felonious assault.  The New-York Tribune explained "Mrs. Holman alleged that the prisoner stabbed her as she was about to enter a drug store on Sunday night."

The tenants of No. 172 continued to be well-respected and financially well-off, most having at least one servant.  None would seem to be more so than James Philip Gilroy, the son of former Mayor Thomas J. Gilroy.  But domestic tranquility turned to upheaval by the spring of 1910.

Gilbroy had a responsible position with the O. J. Gude Company, earning $6,000 per year (a satisfying $160,000 today).  But his wife, the former Nina Huntley, accused him of drinking to excess.

On April 30, 1910 The New York Times reported "When Gilroy was not drinking in 1908, Mrs. Gilroy says, he was an exemplary citizen and a model husband."  But even Gilroy admitted that that year he began drinking too much.  So he "took the pledge" in church to abstain in 1908 and, according to him, "hasn't taken a drink since."  Well, "except those which are occasionally necessary in my business."

Calling his wife "this sweet-scented geranium," Gilroy told the judge that if he had drunk at all, it was because he was driven to it by Nina's conduct.  He said she was in the habit of accepting presents from "gentlemen friends."  The Times reported "As the result of their generosity he says, she has thousands of dollars' worth of jewels and a bank account of $3,000."  Furthermore, she "buncoed" him out of $275 when she claimed she needed to make a payment on a sealskin jacket.  He later found out that it was the gift from a man.

The back and forth he-said-she-said in the courtroom was dizzying.  Nina then said he had become "very disagreeable" since returning to drink.  "She says he broke her nose when he saw her kiss a man in a taxicab," reported The Times.  And Gilroy said it was Nina who was the drinker.

He told the court of one occasion when "his wife came home drunk and fell down stairs.  She flew into a rage and tore the curtains from the windows and threw them and the poles into the street...Then he says she pitched into him with a carving knife."

A maid, Mary Swarni, gave damning testimony.  The Times said she "testified that Robert Butt, to whose friendship for his wife Gilroy objected, was a regular caller during the afternoons, and that Mrs. Gilroy sent her out to take a walk around the block during his calls."

A much less controversial couple in the building were broker William E. Pearl and his wife.  Pearl had organized the Wall Street firm of P. T. Adams & Co. in 1889.  Following his death in 1905 his wife remained.  The apartment was the scene of her sister's funeral, Helen Schuyler Morse, on January 4, 1918.   She was active in social events, and when series of lectures was planned in the Plaza Hotel to benefit the Bethany Day Nursery later that year, The Sun noted "The tickets for the lectures may be obtained from Mrs. William E. Pearl, 172 West Seventy-second street."

By the time of the lectures, the store space facing Amsterdam Avenue was home to the Lotus Restaurant.  On January 17, 1920 Prohibition went into effect, a federal law not precisely followed by proprietor Henry Wertheimer.  On April 10, 1922 The New York Herald reported that Wertheimer was charged with violating the Volstead Act and was summoned to appear that day before United States Commissioner Samuel M. Hitchcock.

Victorian flats had fallen from favor among well-to-do apartment dwellers by now.  Jazz Age buildings with modern amenities were the new fashion.  Once home to respected citizens well-known among West Side society, No. 172 West 77th Street now attracted some less-than-savory tenants.

Among these was 29-year old Melvin Dunham.  He and Sidney Szarn had successfully committed several hold-ups when their criminal careers met an abrupt end on September 27, 1925.  At around noon that day the pair walked into the United Cigar Store at 60th Street and Broadway, brandishing handguns.  The Times said that "without any preliminaries" the crooks ordered the clerk into a rear room.  But as soon as the door was locked their victim began shouting, causing them to flee.

A police car was passing by just as they ran out of the store.  Patrolman John J. Leahy pursued them, nabbing the pair on 60th Street near Columbus Avenue.  The article said that "several hundred persons" watched the half block chase.  Melvin Dunham would not be returning to his West 77th Street apartment.  The $53.75 they stole from the cash register would earn them both long prison sentences.

On October 15 The Times reported that before Judge William Allen imposed his sentence, he questioned Dunham.

"Why did you resort to robbery?"

"Well, Judge," Dunham answered, "we read how easy it was to get away with it, and so we did it."

The judge did not consider that an adequate excuse.  Both men received sentences of between seven and a half to fifteen years in Sing Sing.

The mid-century years were not kind to No. 172 West 77th Street.  A third store was added by 1949, and at some point the doorway to the easternmost store was bricked up, creating an awkward asymmetry to the balcony.  Then, in 1971, the stores were consolidated into a single space for the Cuban restaurant Los Dos Hermanos.

The restaurant lasted in the space for years, garnering praise from food critics like New York magazine's Linda Wolfe and The New York Times' Raymond Sokolov.  It was followed around 1992 by Wildlife, a trendy bar.

No. 172 West 77th Street received horrific press coverage that year.  Resident Troy A. Rivera moved in after being released from prison in 1990 for attempting to sexually assault a young boy.  At some point, possibly in prison, he had contracted the HIV virus.

He began taunting children with obscene jeers as they walked to school.  His behavior progressed to mingling with children at the playground across the street from No. 172, despite his parole officer having explicitly prohibited him from being in contact with youngsters.

A neighbor, Sarah Rodriguez, later told police "He used to come down at 7:00 in the morning.  He'd stand on the stoop.  He'd say something to every kid who walked past.  He'd say, 'I like your butt.  Can I have your butt?'"  Nevertheless she did not think it was her responsibility to report the behavior to police.

Sarah's husband, who was the super of the building, received numerous late-night complaints of "prostitutes, transvestites and young men" (all under 17 years old) coming and going from Rivera's fourth floor apartment. 

On January 14, 1992 the unthinkable happened.  Rivera grabbed an 11-year-old boy as he walked to school alone.  Rivera forced him up the stairs and into his apartment, where he forcibly sodomized him.  The heinous crime was the talk of the neighborhood and the city for weeks.

In 2008 The Chirping Chicken restaurant took over the shop space.

Rivera was, of course, an anomaly among the tenants of no. 172.   From a broad range of ethnic backgrounds, they were on the whole hard-working, middle class families.

After more than 120 years the delightful carved address banner still brings a smile to passersby who happen to notice it; and the scary cast iron dragons no doubt continue to cause a few toddlers to pause.

photographs by the author

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-levridge-flats-172-west-77th-street.html

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