Liberace day with his gimmicky act, his showy but careful piano playing, his non-stop promotions, and his gaudy display of success, but he remained largely unaffected, as preserved by the famous quotation, first recorded in a letter to a critic, "Thank you for your very amusing review. After reading it, in fact, my brother George and I laughed all the way to the bank." He used a similar response to subsequent poor reviews, famously modifying it to "I cried all the way to the bank." In an appearance on "The Tonight Show" some years later, Liberace reran the anecdote to Johnny
I Would Rather Stay Poor to his lover. Soon Calvin decides to steal a huge payroll of $300,000 from the bank and get away with it, and ropes in Kit for the same, at the expense of even murdering poor Alice. But things do not go the way Calvin and Kit plan, and soon they find themselves in a puddle of troubles full of treachery, deception and murder. And to make matters worse for Calvin, he soon realizes that Kit is an alcoholic who can spill the beans anytime. I Would Rather Stay Poor I Would Rather Stay Poor is a 1962 thriller novel by