Racket Girls!

When April showers come your way, they bring the flowers... that POUND EACH OTHER INTO PASTE IN THE SQUARED CIRCLE! It's Racket Girls, featuring lady wrestlers of yesteryear doing what they do best: acting! Racket Girls is ostensibly about lady wrestling but the real story, as it may or may not be with real wrestling, is about the seedy world of organized crime. Umberto Scali is a ladies' wrestling promoter who apparently has a finger in everything from bookmaking to prostitution, a gang of disloyal thugs and as far as story and character go, is the main character of the movie. Racket Girls also features Peaches Page, the apparent protagonist who at no point in the movie appears to have any idea what's happening, Joe, perhaps the greatest sidekick in a MSTed movie*, and a girl who used to live in a cheaphttp://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/6/2/4/event_105882532.jpeg hotel who now lives in a swank apartment.

Racket Girls also features the short "Are You Ready For Marriage," a well-meaning but poorly-executed attempt to stem the tide of young marriages during WWII. That's right, this month is a double-shorter, with the Rifftrax short. So get out your dolls, your copy of Cupid's checklist and your BOING for this classic Coronet short!

We meet at the Irish American Heritage Center in the Fifth Province, the center’s pub located on the first floor (look for a group of folks wearing name badges). Sometimes there will be an event charging money at the door; that's not us. You're welcome to walk past them and come find us. The evening starts at 6:00p for dinner/drinks in the pub (menu consists of burgers, fish & chips, sandwiches, and Irish fare such as Sheperd's Pie). At around 7:30p, we go to the viewing room to watch the show. For those of you driving, the center offers plenty of free parking in its lot. If you still can't find us, go ahead and wait for us in the room marked on the schedule in the foyer. Someone will be in there around 7.

I charge an event fee of $5 ($7 if there are fewer than 15 people in attendance) to help recoup costs for room rental, A/V equipment, DVDs and a personalized, preprinted name badge. If your guest(s) also would like a personalized preprinted name badge, please put his/her name into the comments section of your RSVP. If you want a permanent badge the sort of which I sported at The Painted Hills, please email me the image you'd like and I will have it ready for you, in exchange for a dollar.