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...degree to which convention is outraged is up to the hostess,' declares the little pamphlet issued by the employment office. 'I am an opportunist,' says Jeeves, who happens to live in Lowell House, 'and I grab my chances where I see them...
...looks like a Harvard man, chances are a hundred to one that he's the mysterious prankster "Jeeves" hired by your hostess to amaze and dismay the guests. Jeeves has been an institution in the Harvard Employment bureau as long as people remember. Sometimes, on busy weekends, there are even two or three such cavorting "servants" raising havoc at affairs ranging from quiet little home dinners to giant hotel men's dinners...
...becomes so hopelessly entangled that nobody really tries to get the straight of it. Mr. Gable, who can glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...
Later, at a soiree, she discovers that her shelter mate is the guest of honor. Their hostess (Billie Burke) is a giddy lady who believes that "into the life of every English girl a little American should fall." Not in sympathy with that credo, Miss Carroll scampers home, gets into bed, puts on her gas mask and ponders whether the right man could see through its ugliness into her soul. As if to find out, she crawls on all fours to a wall mirror and barks at herself...
...thank your hostess next day for the good time you had at her party...