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Like all the women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...
...Comes Natur'lly went through extensive alterations. . . . The line 'You don't have to go to a private school not to turn up your bustle to a stubborn mule' became 'Not to pick up a penny from a stubborn mule.' . . . Another verse about Grandpa Bill and his new wife. 'There he is at 93, doin' what comes natur'lly' . . . was thrown out and 'Uncle Ben, who stole chickens just as naturally as he breathed,' was substituted...
...Crump, foxy-grandpa boss of Memphis (TIME, May 27), said he had received an extortion note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to where the payoff is to take place and when. Revised Capone, Inc." The extortionists, theorized brave Boss Crump, "know that an election is coming on and are hoping to disconcert me. But it will have no effect...
...didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...
...children patter questions & answers (asked where Grandpa was, Dickie replied: "At the race track"). Sometimes Dick and Jill sing; the blamed canary never stops...