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Percy Bysshe Shelley has been beckoning from the abode where the Eternal are. His signals, picked up by a literary Ariel who signs herself: "Shirley Carson Jenney, Clairaudient Psychic," are transcribed in The Fortune of Eternity. The book, she says, ''has been transmitted wholly thro' clairaudient dictation...
There were preliminary rumblings that a Ruml plan for Macy's was already in the works. Those who have watched Macy's recent expansion (TIME, July 16) had a new rumor to buzz about. The rumor: Macy's is dickering to buy Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Said Ruml waggishly: "We've been denying that report for two years. But you can look awfully silly if you print a denial and then two weeks later the contrary is announced...
...When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation in a den of lions." Pierson, a happy, irresponsible sort, took on Louise and her four children with cheerful unconcern...
...Hollywood Canteen" is a throwback to the all-star musicals of last spring. In a belated sequel to "Thank Your Lucky Stars," Warners' has thrown together 62 stars from Jack Carson to Joseph Szigeti in a lengthy series of songs and dances...
Somehow, the tricky juggling of these two simultaneous stories manages to avoid the awful fate it deserves. The somehow is an out & out triumph of Greer Carson's versatility as an actress. Reverting in dizzy succession from grandmother to bride to grandmother, she keeps the character of Mrs. Parkington sufficiently herself to lend unity and even dignity to a picture that might well have become a hodgepodge of cosmetic virtuosity...