Word: tootin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...
...dawning last week a tired, chubby suburbanite was driving home through the outskirts of Detroit. In front of the Methodist Church at Farmington his eyelids dropped, the front wheels fluttered, the car curved, careened, crashed into the back of a parked truck. So died a rootin', tootin', shootin', hell-for-leather buckaroo -radio's Lone Ranger. As founder of the five-year-old Lone Ranger Safety Club, he had broadcast many a strong appeal for careful driving...
...popular misconception holds that he was a rootin', tootin' cowboy who suddenly gawked into the klieg lights. This is not strictly true. Although he is at home there, the range was never his profession. His father, Charles Henry Cooper, was a lawyer of Bedfordshire, England, who in 1886 moved to the U. S. and the raucous gold town of Helena, Mont. There he married a local girl, acquired a small cattle ranch, but spent most of his time at law and politics which eventually brought him a justiceship of the Montana Supreme Court...
Artle Shaw hasn't been recording lately....Count Basie's output lately hasn't been too good, his latest release (Decca) of "Jive at Five" being pretty uninteresting....Duke Ellington is doing so many good things that it is virtually Impossible to stay up with him. Especially recommended are "Tootin' Thru The Roof" with an amazing duet by trumpeter Rex Stewart and trombonist Lawrence Brown, "Little Posey," a driving ensemble disc, and "Blues," a duet with Duke on plano and his new bass find, Jimmy Blanton. Maybe Ellington doesn't have the polished technique ideas of some of the boys...