Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpleasantness over a foreman's pay, and the union lads in the bar (there were four of them at the time) had pulled out and set up a picket line. Two of them had quit since then (one to join the British Navy), but the other two, young Con Cusack and Paddo Young, had stuck it out. Every day now for eight years, with other pickets sent by the union, they had tramped up & down, from 10 a.m. to closing, carrying their battered placard: "Strike On at Downey...
Union barmen all over Dublin have chipped in two shillings a week to keep up Paddo's and Con's wages, and the pickets have seemed happy enough in their new jobs. There is a hoary old sign in Downey's window: "Hello, Paddo," it says. "Standard Rate of Wages Paid Here to All Employees." And that's the truth. But with Jim it's a matter of principle. And so the pickets pace, while Jim worries about them. Last March, Jim was out there in the snow sweeping off the sidewalk "so the boys...
...Downey is no more likely to go out of business than he is to settle. Even staunch union men drop into his place, though they always try to keep the pickets, Paddo and Con, from seeing them. "Sure," they all say, "it would hurt the poor lads' feelings...
...again fallen back on the opium of "poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds to a sleepy halt after the first ten minutes. Not even the superb artistry of Adolph Menjou, cast as a floor walker bulldozed into playing father to the feminine fortune hunters, can dispel the disappointed and belligerent hush that soon blankets the audience...
...lightweight screenings. A sly yarn about the gambler who combined good luck at the board with a full house in the boudoir, the film moves smoothly along paced by the tangy dialogue taken straight from the gaming tables. Some of the best scenes involve Jimmy Gleason, Hollywood's finest con-man, bluffing Frank Morgan, no sucker himself--while various types of bait get their just dues...