The Theatre: Sequel

Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead End.

Tough urchins with names like Angel, T.B., Dippy, Spit, peopled the play and brought it to fame. Toughest and meanest of these was Spit, biggest bully, loudest curser, and a squealer..

Cocky, 19-year-old Edward Furman, picked from the slummy East Side for the roadshow role of Spit, swaggered gloriously in the part for $45 a week, ad libbed obscenities that brought qualms to managements, blushes to...

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