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...prelude in which a man (Leslie Adams, the droll cuckold of Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet...
...stage. She rewards her many admirers for her absence with some brilliant ballroom dancing, a cunning burlesque of Lynn Fontanne, a sprightly tap dance in which, surrounded by funnypaper characters, she takes Skippy to her bosom, departs hand in hand with Mickey Mouse. At one point Miss Broderick tunefully predicts: "Uncle Sam will be in Heaven when the dollar goes to Hell.'' Even then As Thousands Cheer should still be making money...
Philadelphians chortled as a chorus hoofer, picked for his amazing likeness to "Davy" (Edward of Wales), was heckled by imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some...
...York savings bankers were quick to point out that these were no emergency agencies but permanent central banks for which they have drummed since 1925. But State Banking Superintendent Broderick bluntly observed: "The mutual savings banks . . . for the first time in their history have access to the resources of the Federal Government." With his banks in an impregnable position, he promised promptly to remove all withdrawal restrictions in force since March. Withdrawal limit is now $250 per week with exceptions for emergencies including vacations...
...York Bank were gathered: Thomas Lament and Russell Leffingwell, stalwarts of the House of Morgan, Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres, Richard Whitney, president of the Stock Exchange, Mortimer Buckner, head of the Clearing House, Joseph Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, President Gordon Rentschler of National City Bank and James Perkins, its chairman-successor of Charles Edwin Mitchell whose downfall had helped precipitate the national crisis...