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Last week the showdown came. Cocky, cigar-chewing Joe Stack, ousted by Curran as vice president last April, made his own appeal for reinstatement. Sure, said Stack, he was a Communist Party member, but that fact would never interfere with his conduct of N.M.U. business. Replied Joe Curran, who likes to talk about himself in the third person: ";Curran and Stack cannot work in the same office." When the vote was taken, it was a narrow squeak: the ouster was upheld 353 to 351. Grinned Joe Curran:"Communist control of the union is speedily slipping away...
Toward the end of the first act of "Sweethearts," Bobby Clark juggles his ubiquitous cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...
Filling in when Clark exits to light a new cigar, the chorus does only a passable job with Herbert's music, mangling the words to widen their smiles. The dancing is fair; the supporting east barely struggles above a mediocre rut; but when Clark reappears, the show comes back to life. Vaudeville will never die so long as Clark and his cigar are smoldering; and in "Sweethearts," both Clark and cigar...
...International Cigar Band Society, 75 strong, gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day meeting, noted mournfully that "cigar bands today are tame and unimaginative." Said President G. A. Greasby, of Milwaukee (who has collected 40,000 different bands): "We have hopes that the rococo will return when the new shipment from Holland arrives. Our only salvation lies abroad...
...tell them how to do things," mumbled Goodman Ace (he had a six-inch Dunhill cigar in his mouth), "and they say yes, and don't do them. They won't ever learn until some day when all the people will get fed up and turn off all the radios...