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...head nurse is a broth of a girl named Susan (Miss Dunne again), accompanying her father, Hiram Porter Dunn (Frank Morgan), on a trip to England. Hiram, a 100% American, dis likes suet puddings, spends most of his time in England fighting over the War of 1812 with a 100% British Colonel (C. Aubrey Smith...
Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...
Censor Price announced that the codes (because of the improvement in the Allies' war prospects) would be relaxed in several particulars. He also announced that the crowd of volunteer cooks who had been sticking their spoons into the censorship broth would now go back and sit down. He meant the Army & Navy security officers, war plant pressagents, a few chambers of commerce, many a Government agency, who had become overofficious in deciding what kind of war news the U.S. public was entitled...
...service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5? a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves at a 40-ft. counter...
...discipline, fires them for the slightest laxity or sign of flagging interest. Yolanda Mero-lrion takes personal credit or blame for every move her 100 singers. 90 musicians and 20-odd conductors and technical executives make. Says she, in her Magyar-tinged English: "Only one cook can spoil this broth. I have to do everything myself." So far, critics agree, Impresario Irion has spoiled nothing...