Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner: Overture, Venusberg Music and Prelude to Act 3 from "Tannhauser" (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Stokowski at his thunderbolt-hurling best. The Philadelphians noodle magnificently...
...shows, which drag along "until exhausted," feature 16 girls, some of them "too late for Social Security," others introduced as "from the House of the Good Shepherd," Baltimore's home for delinquent females. For ensemble acts, the chorines, seated around the room, suddenly pull off their evening gowns and, with very little on, flounce into their routines. After each specialty act, the audience is warned that the next one will be worse. Two husky bruisers, "Machine Gun Butch" Gardina and "Little" Jack Horner, 6 ft. 6, preserve order...
Last Sunday's People's Rally was important for two reasons: 1) it marked Radio Wheelhorse John B. Kennedy's 15th year on the air; and 2) it sought public opinion on whether the Neutrality Act should be changed to permit shipments of arms to nations which have been attacked. To take the affirmative on last Sunday's question, Kennedy picked in-&-out Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard, was surprised to find Villard an out-&-out neutrality man. Keeping Villard to say the nays, he then got Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer for the affirmative...
Said Fischer: "The Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...
Said 60% of the People's Rally balloters: The Act should be changed...