being married to fanny brice, okay, fanny brice had been married earlier to a guy named nicky arnsteinemember the movie. what they left out of the movie largely was that nicky arnstein was a confederate and a great admirer of arnold rothstein, he was a conman in his own right. as i talked about jewel robberies, there are also a lot of government bond robberies back then. the bonds were not -- were bearer bonds so you could just cash them in. is he, if you got a shipment of bonds coming up from wall street to a bank or something, they would be hit and then robbed and arnstein was involved in this. went on the lam at one point and sick of being on the lam and turned himself in and arnold rothstein gave him some advice. why don't you instead of turning yourself in in some boring way, they would have a police parade down fifth avenue every year, why don't you get in a car and ride down in the police parade past the commissioner of police? he did. the police were not amused. and he did go to leavenworth, but for bail money, arnold rothstein provided that bail money to fanny brice, but he al

being married to fanny brice, okay, fanny brice had been married earlier to a guy named nicky anstein. if you remember the movie. what they left out in the movie, largely, was that nicky rnstein was a confederate and a great admirer of arnold rothstein. he was a con man in his own right. there were a lot government bonds back then. they were bearer bonds so you should cash them in. so if you got a shipment of bonds coming up from wall street to a bank or something, it could be hit and then robbed and arnstein was involved in this, went on the lam at one point and got sick of being on the lam, turned himself in and arnold rothstein gave him advice. why don't you instead of just turning yourself in some boring way, they would have a police parade down fifth avenue every year year, why don't you get in a car and ride down in the police parade past the commissioner of police. he did. the police were not amused. he did go to levinworth. for bail money arnold rothstein provided that bail money to fanny brice. but he also said, because it wasn't just altruism, he said while we're here i have

for bail money, arnold rothstein provided that bill money to fanny brice. he also said because it was not just all tourism, he said while we are here, i have an importing business and you have a new apartment. what you buy all your furniture from me? and he did, and it was seriously, seriously overpriced. she was that amused. nor was a woman named ann nichols. and nichols produced, wrote a show in the 1920s called babies irish rose. the old plot, jewish guy mary's irish girl. god knows where the first of anything start. she had the first big hit with that. the longest-running show in broadway history for a long time. it was a big hit, but it was not at first. like all those broadway show musicals, musicals in the 20s. if we only can stay on, the show is going to have legs, it's going to be a hit. i believe in it. and she goes to arnold rothstein for money to keep it going. because rothstein actually financed the building of the cell one peter on 42nd street. he would put the money up for just about anything if he could make money back. and he says sure, i c