Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of a bedraggled, lonesome bum, Cantinflas gives the impression of having drifted in off the streets. Actually he has been pretty well heeled throughout his career, spent three years in the Law School of the National University of Mexico and taught for a spell before he entered the theatre. Unlike most Mexican actors, he did not get to the top via carpas or tent shows, but started playing under a real roof. Today he makes $300 a week...
...little bit more femine (feminine)," "Act easy-go-lucky." Prop boys on a Curtiz set are supposed to know that "boy cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses "after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence...
...network, has standing instructions to address himself to an audience of truck drivers making $18 a week. He follows those instructions almost to the letter, describes his technique as being of the "Aw-nuts rather than the Gee-whiz school of sportswriting." In an excited baritone, he calls a bum a bum, takes frequent pot shots at athletic bigwigs, squeezes the last drop of melodrama out of horse racing, ball games, fights, wrestling bouts. His only concessions to the carriage trade are seasonal references to tennis, polo and college track meets. Enormously popular with sports addicts, he has been...
...Bolger can, still dance with the best of them, and a girl named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
...bum steer among the day's warm welcomes was recorded. A New York Harvard man, sitting in his officer near Grand Central Station, heard a brass band blaring forth Harvard airs outside his window. He hurried down to the station to join in what he thought was a welcoming demonstration and found that the band was representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Why they were playing Harvard songs was not revealed...