Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...Williams & Wilkins, $6.50), first book of its kind to appear in 13 years. Crammed with technical advice to physicians, pilots, passengers, airlines, the Army, the aviation industry, the book is especially significant for its lengthy discussions of aviators' diseases...
...Benito Mussolini. In Lords of the Press, he thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism. Last week, in The Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties...
Author Agar, who succeeds him, studied arts at Columbia, philosophy at Princeton, spent four years in Britain, where he was literary editor of the English Review, London correspondent for the Courier-Journal. After he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his book The People's Choice (thesis: most U. S. Presidents were "a feeble and meritless tribe") he went home, joined the Courier-Journal staff...
Very Warm for May (music by Jerome Kern, book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd). First Kern musicomedy to reach Broadway since 1933, Very Warm for May brought out a glittering first-night audience. The audience proved much more glittering than the show. Kern's tunes were bright and strummy enough, but a raucous, epileptic plot made the show a bird that could sing...