DURANTE, Jimmy and KOFOED, Jack

[247] pp.

Alfred A Knopf

1931

8 3/8″ x 5 7/8″

*w/ facsimile jacket*

Pictorial dust jacket designed by Roese

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First edition of this revealing account by famous comedian Jimmy Durante of everything that goes on behind the scenes in places that were Durantes hangouts for 20 years, with eight pages of photographs.

Hoofers, blues singers, prostitutes, gangsters, cigarette girls, the bare-legged ladies of the chorus, chisellers, spenders all the motley and interesting throng who keep the white lights burning, play important roles in this story of Broadway In Durantes account of night-life from the hot-dog, stale beer joints in Coney Island to the perfumed sophistication of Les Ambassadeurs, the reader will find few places of amusement that have been omitted.