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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
...more witty and ingenious than its predecessors, shows a pair of rascally theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
Author Edna Ferber never attends a first night of one of her plays, flees from Manhattan when her new books appear. Last month she escaped the publication of her newest novel, Come and Get It (TIME, March 4), by sailing on a Mediterranean cruise. Returning on the Conte di Savoia last week, she reported her flight: "Palestine is a country in the making, like America busy and alive. I found the King David Hotel simply flawless, thoroughly modern. Yet all around is the suggestion of the Biblical. For instance, I would go down to the bar for a cocktail...
Eddie Casey, former Varsity coach, who has recently been appointed coach of the Boston Redskins, has signed a contract to appear over the Yankee Network as a football commentator. His programs will start in Mid-September, and will be heard each Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening throughout the football season...
...crass stupidity of continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain...