Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsor of the A. Y. A., which would appropriate $500,000,000 to provide part-time jobs, finance vocational training, is Minnesota's amiable Ernest Lundeen, father of two children, who last week compared it to the Homestead Act of 1862. Said Mr. Lundeen...
...Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
...city, got lost between two worlds. As he puts it: "A man spends his youth dreaming out, and all the rest of his life dreaming back." Lula Vollmer ruined her theme by implying that all folk ways are wholesome, all city ways evil. The square dance in Act II is jolly enough. The gunshot in Act III is a little too jolly...
Ending in a swing version of "Fair Harvard," the runner-up team gave an act as radio comedians. Harlow played the trumpet and Wright the piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...
...that Shirley Temple has grown up, it is time that Hollywood stopped exploiting her round little face, took about fifteen pounds off her, and let her act. If she were given a chance, Miss Temple could act very well, as she proved in "Wee Willie Winkie"; but too often she is thrown into a saccarhine musical cocktail just to appease the Tired Business Man. Such a picture is "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...