Word: rubbernecker
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Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
...authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
...goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch" the German slang for junk, which Lehmann uses to describe everything which is artistically second-rate...
...gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring potatoes to look like rosebuds...
...four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage...