Word: tomcats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Publisher Bryan had cheering news for column readers. After interviewing numerous applicants, she had taken on another young tomcat with the same tiger markings and haunting eyes as her late staffer. His name: Scoopy...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
...tells about a tomcat, for instance, that goes to a bingo game at 7:45 every Monday evening. This reminds Eckstein that no one has found the mechanism which gives men (or animals) the ability to measure time. When he tells about the sleeping habits of his canaries (fagged-out females in the mating season sleep the soundest), he is reminded of another mystery: What is sleep...
...favorites that for the first time in 43 years no place or show betting was allowed. But, mud or no mud, as the field of six (smallest in 41 years) thundered by the grandstand into the first turn, Coaltown was out in front, bouncing along like a big brown tomcat. He had never been beaten in his life...
Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...