The white-faced and masked group of mime pranksters caroused and ran through the streets engulfing cars and their drivers (collecting and panhandling for charity donations and activist causes).Cora prophesied knowingly that Blanche""s future was brighter than Baby Jane""s, whose stardom would only last a short while, although Jane was currently the popular one and helping the entire family o survive."Virgil peered out their upper floor window to glance across the street.The first view of the film""s star was in an open window at the run-down, honky-tonk, hillbilly bar-nightclub known as the Blue Dragon Cafe, where she was employed.Loomis hurried to the scene.After being punched in the face by Sheriff Brackett for the danger he had put Laurie in, and for his "greedy f--king book," Loomis (against orders) approached the shack to possibly "draw him out" and persuade Michael to release Laurie.Someone has to look after her interests." Elster laments how San Francisco has changed from a bygone era, and uses four qualities to spell the urban area ("color, excitement, power, freedom").