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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born to Dance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Put out for the holiday trade, this big, glittering musical has the air of a department store Christmas tree, wreathed with looping streamers of Cole Porter music and twinkling patches of young dancing. Proper in proportion and dazzle are its two large production packages: 1) Rolling Home sung by Ted (James Stewart), Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers) and Mush (Buddy Ebsen) with a chorus of sailors; 2) Swingin' the Jinx Away, the monumental finale, sung by everybody on top of the tree...
Tall, sober, handsome and immaculately dressed Satirist Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis...
...when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never suffered from the things which have made George Grosz hail with delight his bourgeois cottage and his refrigerator. Still hale & hearty. Artist Young's private life is consciously bohemian and irregular...
...Lucio & Simplicio Godino, Filipinos, were born on the Island of Samar in the Philippines. Due to a monstrous accident of gestation, they were firmly bound at the tail bones by a link of muscle, fibre and intestine. Simplicio's digestive tract ended in a blind pocket of gut about half an inch short of where it should have ended. He drained through the connecting link into his Brother Lucio's normal colon...
...President always occupies the same pew, shares it with the Secret Service men. For nearly four years they, and whoever else has happened to be with Mr. Roosevelt, have listened to sermons by Rev. Dr. Charles Ernest Smith who has been at St. Thomas' since 1902. This British-born rector, now in his 70's, has retired. Last week his successor was announced: Rev. Dr. Howard Sargent Wilkinson of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, Long Island...