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...briefly scheduled Federal Theatre run. The Merry Wives, which was written to order in a fortnight because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love, is creaking farce at best. Last week's production, out-Elizabethaning any college outdoor revels on record, was all hideous coyness, bumpkin antics, noddy-noddy-nubkins. A charging, bellowing Falstaff (Louis Lytton) carried on like a bull in ye olde antique shoppe, with the rest of the cast trying, all giggledy-piggledy, to be lewd, quaint, rollicking by turns...
...Miller says he was a timid, colorless bumpkin when he showed up in Chicago for his first newspaper job. Sent to cover police courts, murder trials and hangings, Cub Webster Miller soon learned to talk tough, shortened his first name to Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed...
While the Bumpkin Associated Country Women of the World were being feted by the Roosevelts in Washington last week (see p. 15), a more affluent sisterhood convened in Chicago's conservative Palmer House for the first Finance Congress of Women. The Congress was sponsored by Women Investors in America, Inc., as bitter an enemy as the New Deal boasts. And from 18 states went female capitalists to extol the right of property, to exhort each other to defend their investments as they would their young...
...pointed with special scorn at WPA's privy program in his State, intimating that WPAdministrator Hopkins was more interested in that than in feeding hungry children (TIME, March 23). As Dr. A. J. Kemper. county public health officer, uprose to dedicate the 100,000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever...
...theatre-goers, if not to Britons, Olga Nethersole is famed as a pre-War figure of Wickedness-on-the-Stage for her work in Sapho, a play she picked in 1900 because she thought it was romantic and beautiful for a love-sick bumpkin to carry a lush, mournful harlot upstairs to bed (see cut). The U. S. Press, on the other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair...