Word: kitten
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...hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love stories while her charges suffer. Unable to keep her newborn baby, rebuffed by her mother (brilliantly played as a well-intentioned featherbrain by Phoebe Brand), refused a parole, and finally deprived of a foundling kitten she has adopted, Eleanor changes from a bewildered innocent into an embittered malcontent...
...said middle-aged George to his young wife Liza, "look exactly like a kitten." Liza purred, and all was well. But then George died and there was nobody to pay attention to Liza's "small pointed face" and "soft vulnerable mouth" and "miniature . . . French bust...
...must be expected in a novel by Faith Baldwin, the kitten changes pretty quick to a cunning mouser of men, toys with the poor little critters for 242 pages, and makes her catch just three pages before the end of the book...
Tell It to the Judge (Columbia) is marital slapstick in which Robert Cummings pursues Rosalind Russell from Florida to the Adirondacks. In the best woman's magazine tradition, it depicts the U.S. male as a kitten and the female as a hyperthyroid tiger. Attorney Russell, as stalwart as the bottom man in a tumbling act, is efficient at everything, while Lawyer Cummings gets knocked out twice (once by Rosalind), skis on his face, wears a kimono and does the cooking. Typical scene: Cummings skittishly trying to sleep alongside a wet Saint Bernard...
Sixteen-year-old Cleopatra runs through the play like quicksilver-a kitten all cuddle and claws, still worlds away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators...