The Longest Street - A Memoir by Louis Sobol

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I have known Mr. Sobol for a great number of years. He writes syncopated hymns. There was never a time when he hated the street. He is not a hit-and-run lover. He was one of the first, and, ironically, the last of the kings of Broadway. If you want to know the street-and by this I mean the people who made it, as the street made them-you may as well get the story straight. Louis Sobol has it. It lies between these covers. - from the Foreword by JIM BISHOP. The longest Street - A MEMOIR by Louis Sobol One of America's best-known columnists has engagingly recaptured his experiences as a small-town newsman thrust suddenly into the role of historian of the thoroughfare he labels 'The Longest Street.' For, to Louis Sobol, Broadway has no boundaries: it extends to Hollywood, Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Africa-wherever, in fact, show people foregather to entertain, to make plays or movies, or to play. As the colorful procession of showworld stars, authors, mobsters, songwriters, comics, politicians, playboys, cafe society, exhibitionists, restaurant and nightclub hosts, theatrical producers, and others parade by in these pages, Sobol greets each with rich anecdotes. Here is a fascinating picture of the Speakeasy Era, including the author's contacts with the murderous emirs of the mob-and his final interview with Lucky Luciano before the exiled bandit's death. Here, too, is Greenwich Village when the literary clan congregated in its boisterous bistros, and Harlem when whites and blacks shared equal excitement in the rowdy little haunts. And burlesque and vaudeville in their prime are also recalled-all brushed in with bold strokes on a broad canvas. Finally, in the chapter entitled Letters and Some Post-Scripts. N° de ref. del artículo 000881

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