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...book is just about the usual thing, a hodgepodge of Cinderella, the Stork Club, Brenda Fraizer, and a trained seal. It contains the usual number of cafe society cracks, some good, some bad. Sample: "Yale is a period of life between changing your voice and selling insurance." Certainly the book is the weak link here, as it is in so many musical comedies these days...
...Brussels, where the Lenten processions these days end with prayers that Belgium can keep out of the war; in Switzerland, where patches of brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...intricate style, and persuaded Lewis Music Company (for certain pecuniary considerations) to give him sole broadcasting rights. He rearranged it, slowing it down, and made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks, he played it from the Cafe Rouge at the Pennsylvania in New York. Result was tremendous national popularity--so much so that Victor had to call a special recording session for the band and ship it out on a special release schedule. Hawkins by this time had decided that perhaps he had made a mistake...
...well. His bitter realization that the World War had nothing to do with spiritual purification made him turn against those phases of society which seemed to him to be contributing factors toward causing war. Hence Grosz's early work consists of a condemnation of the money-grabbing, cafe-inhabiting industrial magnate, and the puppet-like member of the masses who allowed himself to be manocuvered into slaughtering his fellows on the battle field. Grosz is not entirely without justification, for he has much to say; his method of communication is far more subtle than a cursory glance at his work...
...Navy then, "vigorously democratized" the naval service. Because of this he was never popular with the Annapolis crowd, who considered him a small-time busy demagogue-and political crank. A man promoted from the ranks was stigmatized as a "mustang." Whenever naval officers gathered in a French cafe during the War, a popular song...