Newspapers indignantly portrayed him as a martinet who had made himself prime minister in all but name.

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Here he dresses the part of a colonial martinet: tight jackets, jodhpurs, riding boots, and even affects a cigarette holder.

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In this 1933 musical comedy, the round-eyed, sweetly leering comedian Eddie Cantor stars as Eddie, a bookish drifter who is run out of the small town of West Rome for speaking truth to the petty martinet of a mayor.

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