The dogs' names

When Virginia Mayo showed up at Turhan Bey's apartment and said she wanted to have her bitch (that's b.i.t.c.h.) Xantippe mated to his dog, I said "Wait a minute. Xantippe?" That was Socrates' very unpleasant wife who supposedly emptied the chamber pot on his head. I checked to see what Bey's dog's name was. Guess what: Rabelais, a 15th century French writer whose works were "marked by gross robust humor". In a word, Rabelaisian, a fitting description of Bey's playboy character. He marries Xantippe's owner, a factoid which only takes on significance in the last frame.