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Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...
...times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...political reasons, the U.S. relied for about 15% of its sugar supplies on the Philippines, importing them across 7,000 miles of Pacific Ocean rather than across 200 miles from Cuba. For political reasons, the quotas of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and particularly the quotas of U.S. beet-and cane-sugar producers have been kept high (in relation to their production)-and the quotas of Cuba kept down...
...took Pearl Harbor to persuade the domestic sugar bloc in Congress not to cut 1942 offshore quotas (TIME, Dec. 22), and the sugar bloc is already in full cry again. Domestic beet and cane producers are terrified of more post-war competition, are using the old argument that a war every 20 years proves the need for sugar self-sufficiency, however high the cost...
...previous shows have, to revive vaudeville by reviving decrepit vaudeville acts. Here & there it is cluttered with bric-a-brac from the old homestead; otherwise Priorities proves a cozy, informal meeting place for two generations of actors. Among the veterans is Lou Holtz, who, carrying the same old cane, cracking the same old jokes with the same old skill, acts as master of ceremonies-and Willie Howard with his long-suffering look, low-comedy antics, and fine assortment of accents...