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...Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
...Ludwig, fresh from Naziland, would have us believe. For him the word majority is a magic philtre, and he cannot say that the Nazis are unable to brew it; thus, although they have burned his books and routed him out, his cavil is not a constitutional one. Castor calls this another example of the megalomania which Mr. Ludwig's essay on Mussolini the strange and uncritical gimcrack...
...motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips at homespun, so long must we be judged in the world as a literary cocktail compounded of six parts young intensity and four parts fragile aniiquarianism. Or so Castor tells me. POLLUX...
...will take touring next season (TIME, June 19). St. Louis concentrates on light opera during the summer and usually makes it pay. In Forest Park, St. Louis has the biggest revolving stage in the U. S., built between majestic twin oaks which are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness. There the Municipal ("Muny") Opera Company broke all attendance records lately with Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (62,000 heard it in a week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle...
...contain the bacteria. Infection may result from contamination during preparation as well as from age and exposure. Symptoms appear in from two to 72 hours. There are severe gastric pains, headache, nausea. Vomiting will bring relief in mild cases, hence an emetic is the first treatment, followed by castor oil, epsom salts or an enema. In severe cases prolonged illness with typhoid-like symptoms may result...