“Trick or treat? Lights camera action.” Alias Prince Mike (Romanoff) to Archie Leach’s top billing!
In Puccini’s Madame Butterfly Reconciling those discordant elements.Frpm Coney Island’s boardwalk (Bay 7) to Beverly Hills’s ‘Romanoff’s dinery, S. Camden and Wilshire, three blocks West of the B everly Wilshire Hotel, the caste system resounding.
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From the moment, Archie Leach put aside his boardwalk stilts and stance, his board !hot dogs, sauerkraut on a bun. A fifty cent keg of beer!, ..from trhe cradle to the grave, a human being knew from the cradle to the grave as the two legged are want to crfave in Prince Make’s or the Coney Island’s immigrationpedestrians are want to be described.
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Walking down those steps to the sandy beach, Archie Leach out of Hove, England, knew he was building sand castles in the cosmos of Surf Avenue, Steeplechase, Luna Park, FreddieTrump’s real est ate nest our Uncle Joe crafting the leases, Durante’s beer&piano melodies back on the boardwalk , where Archie on his stilts, peddled his Nathan like franks an knisahes……
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Who would jhave known an acxtor like Archie Leach would become thew American military husband of a geisha girl, castas the lead in “Madame Butterly”.
Evcentually migrade to the corer of South Camden Driv e and Wilshire Boulevard, three bocks wesrt of the Beverly Hillshire Hotel, Prince Roman off’s beanery, becoming known as tinsel town’s Cary Grant
, the angel behind Prince Romanoff’s Beverly Hills caste dinary.
Holloween, The City that never sleeps, October31, 2016
