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...lies a dogmatic manner, a tart tongue. As floor leader he has often failed to command a following. But because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported by New York and Pennsylvania; Kansas' Homer Hoch backed by mild Mid-West Insurgents; Indiana's little old Wood; Michigan's nice, stodgy Mapes...
Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...
...Laban K. Miles, 87, uncle of President Herbert Hoover, onetime (1878-95) U. S. agent for the Osage Indians; after long illness; in Pawhuska, Okla. Known to the Indians as "White Father," he lived on the Osage Reservation for 53 years, advised, aided them in their local government. Young "Bert" Hoover lived in his home for a year at the age of 9, and at 14 after his father's death...
Whatever its merit, the German Lindbergh saga is more pretentious, more quaintly imaginative than anything done on the same subject in the U. S. It is the collaboration of two young moderns -Librettist Bert Brecht, called "The German Kipling" because his verse is of the vigorous, ballad type, and Composer Kurt Weill. Composer Weill won notoriety if faint praise last year for his opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a gruesome piece set in an imaginary U. S. Sodom where money is the gluttonish god. Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism...
...first in a pleasing, husky way. I'm Happy When You're Happy and Maybe I'm in Love With a Dream (Brunswick)-Good tunes played with smooth, steady pace by Tom Gerun. By My Side and I'm So Afraid of You (Victor)-Bert Lown's saxophones make this Victor's best dance record of the month. By the River Sainte Marie and Running Between the Rain-Drops (Columbia)- Guy Lombardo pushes the manner which has earned the Hotel Roosevelt's cover charge. When Your Lover Has Gone and You Didn...