Word: swains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burglars broke into the London house of the tenth Duke & Duchess of Rutland, carried off $28,000 worth of furs, jewelry, oddments. But first they polished off a bottle of the duke's best Scotch, and gnawed a few apples. The duke (once reportedly a swain of Princess Elizabeth's) and the duchess (a former dress model) refused to have thier vacation spoiled, left next day for South Africa, as planned...
...acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...
...turns out, the sentence is not so light after all. He is hauled about, willy-nilly, among her eager little friends, embarrassed by her embittered swain (Johnny Sands), and teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he falls for the judge. Good fun: Grant and Vallee competing grimly before their ladyloves in sack races, three-legged races and such other corruptions of sport as picnics are apt to inspire...
After a repairman discovered that the pinnacle from which he swung his boat-swain's chair was practically hanging on air, the authorities decided that the ornamentation should be taken down, and the old roofing was replaced by a duration substitute...
...young stranger flops down, "destroyed from walking," in a County Mayo pub and confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...