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FACTUAL INFO ON SAN FRANCISCO AT - TIME OF EARTHQUAKE PERIOD THE EARTHQUAKE TOOK PLACE AT 5:13 AM ON APRIL 18, 1906. THE DAY WAS WEDNESDA LITTLE EGYPT DANCED FOR'DIAMOND JIM BRADY. ISADORA DUNCAN BEGAN HER CAREER IN HER TOWN OF SAN FRANCISCO. ELSA MAXWELL SANG HER OWN SONGS AT THE PIANO THERE. LILLIAN RUSSELL, WITH HER HOUR GLASS FORM, WAS CONSIDERED THE "IDEAL WOMAN". MEN IN THE PARK, CYCLING, WORE KNICKERS-, HIGH NECKED JERSEYS AND CAPS. AND SHOCKING TO THE PRUDISH, MANY LADIES WORE THOSE NEW FANGLED BLOOMERS. SAN FRANCISCO, THE GOLDEN CITY, WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PARIS OF AMERICA. STEVE DOUGLAS, A FAMOUS SALOON VIOLINIST AND SINGER, WAS THE FIRST TO ATTEMPT RAGTIME ON THE VIOLIN AND KNEW MORE THAN 800 VERSES' OF "FRANKIE AND JOHNNY"'. WILSON MIZNER, THE FAMOUS SINGING PIANO PLAYER OF THE BARBARY COAST, MADE "FRANKIE AND JOHNNY1' THE FAVORITE OF ALL THE THE SALOONS. THE FILM, "SAN FRANCISCO", STARRED SPENCER TRACY, CLARK GABLE AND JEANETTE MACDONALD, WHO SANG A FAUST ARIA AND A SONG ENTITLED, "WOULD YOU?", BY BROWN AND FREED, AND THE FILM WAS PRODUCED BY ARTHUR FREED. THE SONG "SAN FRANCISCO"' WAS WRITTEN BY GUS KAHN,BRONISLAU KAPER AND WALTER ?ç . . . JURMANN THE FILM, "THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN" , 1961+, PRODUCED BY LAWRENCE WEINGARTEN, DIRECTED BY CHARLES WALTERS, AND PETER GENNARO CHOREO. SONG, "BELLY UP TO THE BAR, BOYS", BY MEREDITH WILLSON, POSSIBLE USE FOR EAST LOOK OF NUMBER.