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papermoonloveslucy · 3 years

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TIGHT SHOES

April 12, 1942

The Gulf Screen Guild Theater present Damon Runyon’s comedy Tight Shoes, which was a 1941 Universal Pictures success.

Directed and Hosted by: Roger Pryor

Music by: Oscar Bradley

Written by: Damon Runyon

The Screen Guild Theater (aka The Screen Guild Players), was one of the most popular drama anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio. At this point it is being sponsored by Gulf Oil. From its first broadcast in 1939, up to its farewell in 1952, it showcased radio adaptations of popular Hollywood films. Many Hollywood names became part of the show, including Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and many more. The actors’ fees were all donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization that provides aid to retired actors. Screen Guild Theater was heard on different radio networks, beginning with CBS from 1939 to 1948, NBC from 1948 to 1950, ABC from 1950 to 1951, and back to CBS until its last episode on June 29, 1952. Throughout its run, a total of 527 episodes were produced.

Tight Shoes was a 1941 comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell based on the 1936 story of the same name by Damon Runyon. The film was produced by Universal Pictures. It was re-released in November 1947.

The Daily Variety review called the film "...the closest interpretation of the Damon Runyon humor that has yet been brought to the screen."

The story was again broadcast on radio as part of “The Damon Runyon Theater” on October 30, 1949. The cast included Alan Reed, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering, and Joe De Santis.

RADIO CAST

Lucille Ball (Sybil Anderson) plays the role originated in the film by Binnie Barnes. She had just released her film Valley of the Sun, which was her 54th film since coming to Hollywood in 1933.

Sylvia Ash is the self-described “Biggest Star on Broadway”. In the film version, Sybil’s last name is Ash.

Red Skelton (Swifty Miller) plays the role originated in the film by Broderick Crawford. He also starred with Lucille Ball in the films Having Wonderful Time (1938), Thousands Cheer (1943), Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), 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.

In the film version, the character is known as Speedy.

George Tobias (Blooch) plays the role originated in the film by Edward Gargan. He later appeared with Lucille Ball in the film The Magic Carpet (1951).

SYNOPSIS

Shoe store owner Amalfi is forced by crook Swifty Miller to allow the business to be a front for illegal gambling. Jimmy Rupert is a clerk in the store and sells a pair of shoes to Miller that are too small and hurt his feet. Distracted by his pinched feet in the tight shoes, Swifty places a losing bet on the horse named Feet First. A fight ensues with his girlfriend Sybil and she leaves him. He blames his loss on Rupert and gets him fired from the shoe store. In response, Rupert complains about crooked politicians who allow crime to flourish, and successfully runs for office. He is opposed by the newspaper, but supported by Miller's ex-girlfriend Sybil. On the day he wins the election, Rupert and Sybil are engaged to be married.

“TIGHT” TRIVIA

This is not Lucille Ball’s only time appearing in a script by Damon Runyon. She often said her favorite performance of hers was in The Big Street (1946), based on the Runyon story “Little Pinks”. Lucille Ball did another Damon Runyon story, Sorrowful Jones in 1949, based on his 1932 story “Little Miss Marker,” which had previously been filmed in 1934. Damon Runyon also created the source material for the hit Broadway musical Guys and Dolls (1950), which starred Robert Alda, who went on to make several appearances on “The Lucy Show.” When the film version was made by MGM in 1955, Lucy and Desi were also under contract to the studio. A brief clip of the film was inserted into the middle of an episode of “I Love Lucy” called “Lucy and the Dummy” (S5;E3), although the clip was removed after its initial airing.

Because it was wartime, the Gulf commercials stressed using high-grade gas and motor oil to reduce waste and conserve.

The story is told in flashback, starting with Swifty Miller in the Army, giving advice to a soldier who wants to burn his shoes because they are hurting his feet.

“He bet fifty thousand dollars on a nag called Feet First to come in head first, but it was dead first, and carried out feet first.” ~ Sybil

Like most characters in Runyon stories, Swifty and Sybil are gamblers, and like going to the racetrack. Lucy and Desi also were fond of horse racing, and frequently attended racing at Del Mar in California. Several episodes of Lucy sitcoms were modeled around racing and racehorses.

Mr. Amalfi wonders if the government still prints $10,000 bills. He is correct! The bill was last printed in 1934. Even in 1942 there were not many in circulation. Today they are very rare, and the highest value US bill to be accepted for a transaction.

Swifty says he has bought a new victory suit. Sybil wonders if the victory was at Bull Run? The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861. Sylvia is intimating that his suit is woefully out of style.

Swifty says he’d do anything for Sylvia, even tear up his autographed picture of Roger Pryor. Pryor was a leading man of Broadway and Hollywood, doing 50 films between 1930 and 1945. He was married to Lucille Ball’s friend and co-star Ann Sothern, but the couple divorced the same year this radio show aired.

“I’m off my onion for ya, sweet pea. Or maybe it’s just gas pushin’ up under my heart.” ~ Swifty

When Sybil entertains at the political rally, the orchestra plays “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” written by Cole Porter for the 1938 Broadway musical Leave It to Me. Marilyn Monroe would sing it in the 1960 film Let’s Make Love. Lucille Ball sings it on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy the Gun Moll” (TLS S4;E25) on March 14, 1966. In this radio show, Lucille Ball does not sing, we merely hear the orchestra playing.

A radio reporter talks about the local election using fictional names, but when mentioning the national election, he says “Roosevelt is leading Wilkie.” This places the date of the action on November 5, 1940, when incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt handily defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Wilkie for President of the United States. Swifty talks back to the radio and says “Yeah, we know that.” Due to the war, Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term, and very few expected him to be defeated in light of his popularity.

When Jimmy objects to Swifty’s tone around Sybil, Swifty calls him “Emily.” This is a reference to well known authority on etiquette, Emily Post (1872-1960). She was an author, whose newspaper columns and radio broadcasts were very popular in the 1940s.

The show ends with a promotion for next week’s show “A Woman’s Face” starring Bette Davis, Osa Massen, and Conrad Veidt. The 1941 film originally starred Joan Crawford in the role taken by Davis. Massen and Veidt reprise their roles from the MGM film directed by George Cukor.

The announcer says that Lucille Ball will soon be seen on screen in Little Pinks, which was the working title for The Big Street, also by Damon Runyon.

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fromaddict2advocate · 3 years

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Your Writing Voice Is Waiting

By: Marilyn L. Davis Where’s My Voice? “A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorb them completely. Only by fully committing themselves to a pet subject or issue can the writer develop a thematic tone that speaks to other people with authority and serenity. The quality of their literary voice is the crucial part of the writer’s legitimacy, and their…

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blackchildrensbooksandauthors · 6 years

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40 Books to Celebrate National Poetry Month

The forty books listed offer a range of diverse topics from Phillis Wheatley’s ruminations on various subjects to Mahogany L. Browne’s Black Girl Magic—from laughing feet to family love—Harlem to hair. April is National Poetry Month, and there’s something here for personal, classroom, and community enjoyment or inspiration. Poetry Month is “the largest literary celebration in the world,” so go here for ideas on how to celebrate all month long and here for more poetry selections from Nikki Grimes, Marilyn Nelson, Kwame Alexander, and other poets. Happy Poetry Month!

My People - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Charles R. Smith Jr.

I Am Loved - Nikki Giovanni, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

My Feet Are Laughing - Lissette Norman, Illustrator - Frank Morrison

Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon - Ruth Forman, Illustrated by Cbabi Bayoc

Bronzeville Boys and Girls - Gwendolyn Brooks, Illustrator - Faith Ringgold

Love to Langston - Tony Medina, Illustrator - R. Gregory Christie

Hey Black Child - Useni Eugene Perkins, Illustrator - Bryan Collier

Read and Rise - Sandra L. Pinkney, Illustrator - Myles Pinkney

I Am the Virgin Islands - Tiphanie Yanique

I Live in Music - Ntozake Shange, Illustrator - Romare Bearden

We Are Shining - Gwendolyn Brooks - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

In Your Hands - Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

That Is My Dream! - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Daniel Miyares

Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems - Traci Dant Illustrator - Eric Velasquez

Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou, Illustrator - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Oh, Brother! - Nikki Grimes, Illustrator - Mike Benny

Sail Away - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

Ostrich and Lark - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrators - San Artists of the Kuru Art Project in Botswana

Crowning Glory - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Brenda Joysmith

Harlem - Walter Dean Myers, Illustrator - Christopher Myers

Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou - Dr. Edwin Graves Wilson Ph.D., Illustrator - Jerome Lagarrigue

The Angels Lullaby - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Pamela Johnson

Wonders: The Best Children’s Poems of Effie Lee Newsome - Rudine Sims Bishop (Compiler), Illustrator - Lois Mailou Jones

I See the Rhythm - Toyomi Igus, Illustrator - Michele Wood

Under the Moon & Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems - James Berry & Grace Nichols

Daddy Calls Me Man - Angela Johnson, Illustrator - Rhonda Mitchell

Children of Long Ago - Lessie Jones Little, Illustrator - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

America, My New Home - Monica Gunning, Illustrator - Ken Condon

Soul Looks Back in Wonder - Tom Feelings (Editor) Illustrator - Tom Feelings

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art - Belinda Rochelle https://amzn.to/2Gz4E5m

The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters) - Wade Hudson

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir - Phillis Wheatley

Carver: A Life in Poems - Marilyn Nelson

Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement - Eugene Useni Perkins

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People - Carole Boston Weatherford

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King - Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

How I Discovered Poetry - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrator - Hadley Hooper

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Nikki Grimes, Illustrators - Various Artists

Out of Wonder - Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, & Marjory Wentworth, Illustrator - Ekua Holmes

Black Girl Magic - Mahogany L. Browne. Illustrator - Jess X. Snow

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ms-m-astrologer · 7 years

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Transiting Ceres enters Leo, pre-retrograde

September 23 - October 8, 2017

Two weeks of plain vanilla Ceres/Leo, with no aspects other than those made by the Moon; and then the Rx Zone is entered. What can it mean?

As someone with an active natal Ceres/Leo, I can say that we’re liable to identify (Leo) as being parents, and with our parenting styles. We want to take pride in our offspring - we are absolutely, utterly delighted by/with our children, and we want everybody else to be just as delighted. We want the kids to be self-confident, creative, and above all happy.

We can also assume that because there’s a future retrograde zone involved, we’re going to experience complications. Possible manifestations include the stereotypical “stage parents” out hustling, ostensibly on behalf of their kids, but in reality for their own ego gratification. We may also have issues with “parental authority” - we don’t like Mom and Dad bossing us, but at the same time we insist that we’re the bosses of our kids. Hypocritical much? Other potential difficulties may involve spoiling the kids by getting them whatever material things they want, being an overly competitive parent, and/or insisting that Junior be a literal “chip off the old block,” exactly like us in every possible way.

So, over the next nine months (hmm) we’ll be faced with parenting and nurturing issues involving pridefulness, egotism, and bossiness. If we pay attention around the times of the four Moon-Ceres aspects, we may find some unconscious or taken-for-granted feelings and assumptions which will set up the situation(s) for the work of the retrograde.

Celebrities with Ceres in Leo: Marilyn Monroe, 14th Dalai Lama, Napoleon I, JLaw, Prince, Benedict Cumberbatch, Carl Jung, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles Prince of Wales, Chris Evans, Snoop Dogg,Warren Buffett, Bruno Mars, Dwayne Johnson, Margot Robbie, Paul Klee, Steve Carell, Jessica Lange, Carlos Castaneda, Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Crawford, Anne Boleyn, Jeremy Irons, Justin Trudeau, Miles Davis

Lunar aspects to Ceres:

Monday, September 25, 04:41 UTC - Moon/Sagittarius trine Ceres/Leo

Saturday, September 30, 08:53 UTC - Moon/Aquarius opposite Ceres/Leo

Thursday, October 5, 03:12 UTC - Moon/Aries trine Ceres/Leo

Saturday, October 7, 07:24 UTC - Moon/Taurus square Ceres/Leo

#Astrology #Transiting Ceres enters Leo pre-Rx #Ceres #Ms M astrologer

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jenniferfaye34 · 4 years

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#Giveaway ~ Australia Burns Anthology (Show Australia Some Love) by various authors... #books #YoungAdult @romance #WomensFiction #charity #readers

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions for AUSTRALIA BURNS, three collections published by The Wild Rose Press for a very special purpose. Stories in this collection are contributed by authors who care about Australia and the relief efforts from the devastating bushfires. All profits from the book will be donated to charities involved with the recovery efforts. The publisher and authors are not affiliated with the charities. They simply want to show Australia their love and support. The books will be available on February 14, but are currently available for pre-order. Enter the Rafflecopter for a chance to win a $10 Amazon/BN GC.

Volume 1 Stories in this collection are contributed by authors who care about Australia and the relief efforts from the devastating bushfires. All profits from the book will be donated to charities involved with the recovery efforts. The publisher and authors are not affiliated with the charities. They simply want to show Australia their love and support. A collection of Short Stories in Mainstream Fiction, Women's Fiction, Thrillers, and Mystery A Solicitous Wife by Madeleine McDonald No One Knew by Larry Farmer Pinochle by Brenda Whiteside The Tuesday Night Meeting by Peggy Jaeger 911, What's Your Emergency? by D. V. Stone Tall Tales by Laura Strickland Fare Gain by Alexandra Christle The Note by Stephen B. King Three Ghosts by Julie Howard Detective Paws and Lip Gloss by Maureen L. Bonatch The Ring by Margaret Ann Spence Portrait of a Gunfighter by Hywela Lyn Six Hours or So by Lisa Wilkes Prussic Acid by Melody DeBlois

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#Australia Burns Anthology #romance #Womens Fiction #Young Adult #Goddess Fish Promotions #Hearts & Scribbles

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