Show 1 t 1 A FANTASY FANTASY FANTASY-FANTASY FANTASY Time January 22 1966 Scene cena Any big hotel In Salt Lake C City ty Character Lets Let's c call a 1 1 him Johnny Smith Mr Smith Is ushered to lila his room by a bell In the room Smith mumbles to the boy bellboy offers him a five-dollar five bill Say Saya the redcap red Lets see your credentials Have Dave to to be pretty careful about stoolies you know Both the I State and the FBI are begin ning to crack down I Smith shows his his' bill fold lull full of ot cards Says th the bellhop hop Looks okay Well We'll take a chance Go to this address knock three and two and say that Tony sent cent you But i It you tell anybody else Ill I'll call alI you a big fat tat liar The address Is a basement door la In a dingy building Smith knocks three tim times A slit silt opens In the he door and a pair of beady adY eyes survey him A thin blue film mm cre creeps s through th the slit silt Who IWho sent cent ya bud Tony at the hotel Come Como In Make ta home Chains and bars c clank ank and the the steel door creaks open open Smith finds himself In Ina a a huge room with scores possibly hundreds hun of men and women occupying occupying oc oc- oc tables They come from all walks of life fe but all hays have one thing In common Each is smoking a The room is la blue with a haze I of or smoke Fans keep the I haze in motion Smith finds finda a vacant place at a table with with I pleasant people and leans back I j relaxing in anticipation A pretty I I girl approaches with a tray laden laden with I Take your pick sir air We have every brand here Gad Gadi Look at that Beautiful Haven't had a II snipe for three days Smith names his brand She hands him one He hands handsher handsher handsher her one dollar and a quarter tip She moves on Johnny lights up upend I end and nd Inhales luxuriously ly He lie cups the burning fag in 10 lila his hand so that no errant draft will cause It to burn bum faster lie He listens listena Idly I to snatches of or near-by near conversa I After Atter all they're my lungs Whose business Is Js It It if I 1 want to i burn turn em up If U the kid smokes smokeS' hes he's grounded ground I ed two weeks week for each snipe But after all me and Ma was already smoking I I The way I J see sea It If you OU quit the nails nalls you get getBO getso BO so fat that your heart cant can't cant t haul baul you ou around and you ou die dio of ofa ofa a heart attack Why not die dlo happy I No the he flat feet cant can't trace it 1 smell amell A auction fan tan drags it I out oat into a tube ube which empties empties empties' I Into toto that big stack smoke-stack two I away That out lay-out cost costa a 1 pretty p my y But worth It it Ill lay you ou a cool million pal that are no worse on your lungs than this thia I Smoke a whole pack o of ot in a closed garage and happens Breathe carbon monoxide in there tot tor or 10 minutes and oure youre a dead J pigeon Look th there theres r n LImpin Louis What a character Did you OU know the thoy let ret him come como la Ia and ana spend pend two hour hours for tor 50 60 O cents cent Just Jut to breathe the lbs air rf a Murphy just at came In oft off Us his beat to They The sUp slip Um kim DI three Che- Che I I II I I a day just to keep his mouth shut I IDid Did you hear about that hi hi- jackin job the other side of ot Brigham City That Ogden gang knocked off ott a truck truckload truck load of ot mixed brands coming in from Canada A cool hundred grands grand's worth That mean meana the price will be going go go- ing up to a buck and a half halt Well we can still sUlI pay a dollar In Ogden But this thia stuff stutt will lead to shooting wait and see seem Suddenly loudspeakers speakers squawk to life lite A voice blares blares' out I Fags Tags out everybody Kill JU I the snipes right now Just had hada hadI a call from headquarters that a I raiding party will be here In 15 minutes One qu quick ck drag and out out Next on the house I II I The girls carrying huge pans scurry from table to table picking I up u P. P trays ash-trays and disappear into a aback aback I I back room The suction fan howls j like an an afterburner after and cle clear r air I flows into the room from a a dozen ducts Packs Packs' of playing cards appear like magic on every table A huge banner unfurls on the wall Jolly Rascals Homey Card Club Old Old Maid and Whist Whet Bingo is out a I Fantasy of course And are I you perhaps too young to remember re- re remember member the speakeasies of ot Prohibition Pro Days Im I'm not Just Jut bare ly Mac I 1 I |