NEW YORK: _Confidential_! _Books by_ Jack Lait _and_ Lee Mortimer CHICAGO: CONFIDENTIAL! WASHINGTON: CONFIDENTIAL! _By_ Jack Lait HELP WANTED THE BIG HOUSE BROADWAY MELODY BEAST OF THE CITY PUT ON THE SPOT GANGSTER GIRL BEEF, IRON AND WINE (_short stories_) GUS THE BUS OUR WILL ROGERS WILL ROGERS' WIT AND WISDOM A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL WRITING _By_ Lee Mortimer NEW YORK BEHIND THE SCENES NEW YORK: Confidential! by JACK LAIT and LEE MORTIMER _New Revised Edition_ CROWN PUBLISHERS, Inc. · NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1948, 1951, BY CROWN PUBLISHERS INC. _All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or a newspaper._ _Sixth Printing, February, 1951_ _Revised Edition, September, 1951_ PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN BOOK-KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, INC., NEW YORK CONTENTS [Illustration] Introduction vii Part One--THE PLACES (Confidential) 1. My Little Gay Home in the East 3 2. The Canyon 7 3. The Main Drag 16 a. Give My Regards to Broadway 19 b. No Cover Charge 24 c. From the Circle to the Square 27 4. The Theatah 38 5. Swing Lane 43 6. East Side, Best Side 49 7. We Never Go There Any More 67 8. Where Men Wear Lace Lingerie 72 9. It's Not True 78 a. Chinatown 78 b. Little Tokyo 86 c. Koreans 89 d. Corregidor 89 10. Around the World in New York 91 a. Beer and Pretzels 91 b. Borscht and Blintzes 93 c. The Not-So-Blue Danube 100 d. Little Italy 100 e. Stromberry Poy 102 f. Modern Babel 102 11. Black Ghetto 104 12. And Ye Took Me In! 126 13. Up in Central Park 134 14. New York's Dormitories 138 Part Two--THE PEOPLE (Confidential) 143 15. The Minx in Minks 144 16. Guys and Pearls 151 17. Glamor Pusses 156 18. Models 161