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...auctioneer's voice boomed out the cow's pedigree: "ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire Glittering Generalization." The bidding stopped at $320. "Before I could extricate myself," writes Sidney Joseph Perelman, "the auctioneer had brought me to my knees and was administering the estocada. In vain I pleaded that I had merely been clearing my throat, that I lived in a hotel for business girls where no cattle were permitted...
...battered hat, wizened old Polly Beecham, who has sold her flowers at the foot of the statue for 50 years, was agog with excitement. "I loike 'im," she exclaimed as the returning hero was hoisted into place. "'E's my companion, see?" A dewy-eyed lass in the crowd confessed her devotion just as shamelessly. "I cyme all the w'y from Ilford 'cause I'd never seen 'im," she cried. "After all, London is the 'eart of the world, an' Piccadilly is the 'eart of London, and Eros...
...really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things. So murder and allied villainies are not easy deeds for her. Some of the best of this melodrama grows out of her pity for her guileless victims, and her shamed horror over the things a young woman may be called upon to do just to get ahead...
Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
...like to see Greer Garson as a Western lass who makes good in Jim Fiskish New York and marries a dullish robber baron, you can go to "Mrs. Parkington," but you'll also have to see her finish up as a rather pitiful eighty-year-old matriarch. That is no fun, even if you like Greer Garson...