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...several seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes, the dreamland nag who whinnies out the tips...
...Rayburn of Texas left the microphone in the well of the House where he had been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...
...only peculiar circumstance was the indifference of the U.S. people to the war menace looming in the Pacific. Apparently they were aware of the menace, ready, if necessary, to meet it. Theirs seemed to be the indifference of a gambler whose cards are face-up on the table. The U.S. has called Japan. The Japanese must play their cards or drop them...
Cast as a romantic Rumanian gambler and lady-charmer, Boyer finds himself on the wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard...