The victim's boyfriend Rod Lane was the prime suspect in the homicide, due to his prior history of arrests for brawling and drugs.All the other diners in the restaurant are elderly.The waitress (Doro Merande) is plain and middle-aged, and although she doesn't accept tips, she does solicit contributions for a fund established for a nudist camp, explaining:Nudism is such a worthy cause.With much of the film's action occurring within a theatrical boarding house (the Footlights Club) for young, star-struck, vulnerable ingenues and debutantes, it is filled with bitchy and sassy, and stage-struck young women - who laugh and heckle each other, shed ears, express their hopes, dreams and aspirations, spout wisecracks, barbs, and insults, and genuine, heartfelt words of experience.Thorin was brought before the Elven King Thranduil, a blonde Elf with a crown of leaves and twigs, who was immediately suspicious of Thorin's greedy motives and quest:Some may imagine that a noble quest is at hand.