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...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...
...Burns Mantle of the Daily News: "The potion scene, I venture, has never been as tellingly read as Miss Cornell gave it last night, simply, without affected hysteria, or hair-tearing.'' Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "This is an occasion. All a reviewer can say is 'Bravo!' " High praise, too, was due Miss Cornell's excellent supporting company. Particularly good was Edith Evans as the Nurse. Miss Evans speaks lines which are usually expurgated with a wholesome bawdry which somehow manages to dodge the usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly...
...year-old munitions inquiry committee. The majority had already moved to quash the findings on the ground that the guilty officers who had been stationed as a munitions purchasing board in Europe had long since been dealt with in military and civil courts. Last week Minority Senator Mario Bravo uprose once again and began making charges, far worse than anything the U. S. Senate committee had aired...
...charged that General José Belloni, head of the European purchasing board, had shared in at least $60,000 commissions paid his dentist-nephew. Alberto Jonchi, by Colt Co. Few doubted the nephew had been paid. Senator Bravo read letters to prove that the brave uncle had been paid...
...gone to press. And then in the leading editorial, we read that the resists of the questionnaire "would be of importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset." Bravo! But a little later on we read. "If the statistics are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the result would be. . . There must be an explicit promise that none of the statistics will be released for public consumption...