Why is it that when
With astronomers you converse
And your told there are
Billions of stars
in the universe
You believe them
Completely and without coerce
Yet when you speak
To an expert in things decorative
And you’re told there is
Wet paint near where you live
You still need to touch it
Just to be positive
My husband is like
Those horoscopes you can get
He tells me what to do
And he’s never been right yet
My husband is like a cool box
If filled with beer
I can manage to take him
Almost anywhere
Gool Peran Lowen
It’s St Piran’s Day
He’s revered by “Tinners”
Since their heyday
For sharing the secrets
Of Mining Tin, they say
“It Happened One Night” is a romantic comedy, from before the ghastly term “RomCom” was coined, based on the short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams and directed by Frank Capra.
It’s
a sweet comedy about heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert), a spoiled young
woman who after having just tied the knot with gold digging society aviator,
King Westley (Jameson Thomas), she is whisked away to her father's yacht and
out of King's clutches but Ellie jumps ship at the first opportunity and
eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband.
It’s
when she’s on the bus that she meets an attractive worldly newspaper reporter
Peter Warne (Clark Gable).
The
interaction between the two is both romantic and humorous and is the classic
portrayal of what may be called “sexual tension.”
Reluctantly
she must accept his help after he makes her realize that her wealthy background
cannot carry her through as a human being in the real world, so he takes care
of her but doesn’t take advantage of her, but her choices are limited so she
has to stick with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the
whistle on Ellie to her father (Walter Connolly), either way, Peter gets what
he wants a really great scoop.
This
is a must-see for everyone who loves old movies, and entertaining for all, but
I suspect that if you have a love of classic films you would already have seen
it, so watch it again.
There
are some interesting items of trivia surrounding the film, but I have three
particular favourites,
1,
Ellie and Peter are forced to hitchhike, and Gable stands at the edge of the
road and his wisecracking posture is said to have been the inspiration for the
cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
2,
In the Greyhound Bus scene, Frank Capra, the director, makes a cameo appearance
as one of the passengers on the bus singing the third couplet of “The Daring
Young Man on the Flying Trapeze”
3,
In the “Walls of Jericho” scene Gable takes off his shirt and appeared bare-chested
and as he wasn’t wearing a vest sales of men’s undershirts declined sharply.
There is knowledge I need to know
Which will put me in the box seat
In
particular I just have to know
What
the street value is, of a street?
Phil Lynott wanted a special pet
And searched for it wide
and far oh
When he
found it, he took it home,
Now he
keeps his Pixie in a-jar-o
