THAT'S SHOW BIZ! by Milton Knight

WELL, THAT’S SHOW BIZ! By Milton Knight Copyright 2015 by Milton Knight Ninth Draft: 6/10/16 © Copyright June 10, 2016 by Milton Knight Printed Oct. 16, 2016 Chapter One: SETTING THE STAGE The two men squinted away from the light glaring above. One of them was what one would have, in the popular colloquial of the time, labeled a “runt”. Thickset, perspiring, he was no match for the tall, rawboned man who clutched his collar, nearly lifting him from the floor. The thin one, features beet red, convulsing, pushed his face into the runt’s, and drew back his palm. He threw it into the other man’s face for a smack that rang through the premises. He shook the little one by the collar, and hurled him down to the floor. The runt’s straw hat spun on the floor, as its owner wallowed in a foolish heap, arms and legs impotently thrashing about. The tall one plunged his hand into the inside of his jacket for the object naturally