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Unfortunately, a posthumous cast is almost all that distinguishes Shoot the Works from innumerable other cinemusi-comedies. It was loosely assembled from Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler's loose play, The Great Magoo, and named after "a revue produced by Heywood Broun two years ago. Retold is the familiar narrative about a young actress who makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky...
Should the Guild put aside its "white collar complex" and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor, like the shirt-sleeved compositors upstairs and the overalled pressmen down? The convention sidestepped that fundamental question by adopting the proposal of its president, shaggy, drawling Heywood Broun, to postpone discussion for a year. Then the delegates opened their arms in welcome to their newest hero...
...onetime CCC camper and an unemployed battery-shop worker. Otherwise the Guardsmen kept their heads, drove back others without more damage than a dozen bayonet and shot wounds and accidental injuries from bursting gas bombs and arrested the leaders of the mob and suspicious characters (including Columnist Heywood Broun). A howling mob of 250 seized Stephen Kardos, a workman who failed to join the strike, dragged him from a taxi cab, beat him, stripped him naked except for necktie, shoes and socks and marched him through the shopping district. A lone middle-aged policeman won Kardos' release with: "Boys...
Expense items listed by Mr. Blackmer included $400 for a party for Writers Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, Laurence Stallings & others, a $25 treat for Atlanta "social leaders and clubwomen," $75 lavished on the French consul and others at Chicago, an unnamed sum spent on "Mr. & Mrs. Biddle" at Pinehurst, N. C. Host Blackmer also said he had cast a few croutons on the political waters of the nation's capital. "In Washington," he testified, 'T entertained almost every night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President...
...Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...