Radio City Music Hall a Manhattan theater featuring films and stage shows, including a lavish Christmas pageant. Tom Collins an iced drink made with gin, mixed with soda water, lime or lemon juice, and sugar typically a summer drink. Stork Club or El Morocco fashionable New York City nightclubs, where one was more likely to spot celebrities.
#Holden the catcher in the rye movie#
Peter Lorre (1904-1964) Hungarian by birth, he was a recognizable character actor and movie star in several countries, including the United States. The symbol of being the catcher in the rye represents a solace for Holden, a place where he actually has control over his life and the ability to protect youthful innocence in a way he wasn’t able to protect his younger brother in real life. Pimpy-looking resembling a man who is an agent for a prostitute or prostitutes and lives off their earnings.įrom hunger here, unattractive, unfashionable. The women excuse themselves, and Holden gets stuck with the tab. He, on the other hand, can't stand their lack of taste or their touristy fascination with celebrities and Radio City Music Hall. The women are concerned about Holden's age and find it amusing that he is socializing with them. Bernice is blonde, somewhat cute, and a terrific dancer, although lacking in personality. Holden gives them a "cool glance." Marty and Laverne are unattractive in such similar ways that Holden thinks they might be sisters, which offends both of them. The three women in their thirties, sitting at the next table, are tourists from Seattle, all employees at the same insurance office. He tries to order a Scotch and soda (unmixed, of course) but gets carded and settles for a Coke. Caulfield seems to resent adults but keeps struggling to be one. Holden's aesthetics are tested in the Lavender Room where the Buddy Singer band, "corny" and "putrid," holds forth. She writes books featuring a girl detective named Hazle Weatherfield, an orphan who, nonetheless, has a 20-year-old father who keeps popping up. Phoebe is a budding creative artist in her own right. She has seen it so many times that she has memorized the dialogue. She knows a good movie from a lousy one, as evidenced by her adoration of the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic The 39 Steps (1935). Phoebe is thin like Holden he describes her as "roller-skate skinny." She has pretty ears, and she is unusually perceptive. Sometimes she seems more mature than he does. Phoebe is not only intelligent and pretty, with red hair like Allie's, but she is one person with whom Holden can communicate, his soul mate. However, he realizes that he almost certainly will have to speak to one of his parents instead. After providing a detailed recollection of his younger sister, Phoebe, Holden visits the Lavender Room and meets three women, tourists from Seattle.ĭespite the late hour, Holden nearly calls Phoebe, his 10-year-old sister. However, the Lavender Room, a lounge off the lobby of the Edmont Hotel, is still open. Holden claims that it is still early, but it is actually quite late.
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