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...that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...
...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...
...Requests made of two movie stars by 1,821 fan writers included: a cake of soap, a "piece of gum you have chewed," a cigaret butt, three hairs, a bicycle, and permission to name a pet flea after the star...
Many of the men who built the motion-picture industry are still active in Hollywood. They came from vaudeville, flea circuses, petty trade, other shabby zones of enterprise. Their unrefinement sensed and satisfied what the U.S. wanted in the way of entertainment...
...quite at home in their singing roles. The Straus melodies (My Hero, Sympathy, the title song, etc.), written originally for a lyric soprano and a tenor, have been rearranged and somewhat streamlined. Better are some of the picture's other tunes, Moussorgsky's Song Of The Flea (courtesy of Mr. Eddy), Saint-Saens' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Miss Stevens), and Wagner's Evening Star (duet...