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...Foursquare Gospel Church in Cleveland one day last week stood Clifton Hoffman, 23, and Florence Brinkman, 21. Facing them was a chub-cheeked, eight-year-old boy, dressed up like a minister. No masquerading moppet but a real ordained parson, the Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...
Christina Stead is a 35-year-old Australian novelist who has been a critics' favorite, a popular failure. According to Rebecca West she is "one of the few people really original we have produced since the War." According to Clifton Fadiman she is "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf." If readers ignore her latest novel, House of All Nations, they will have to do so in the way a pedestrian ignores a landslide in the road-by walking around...
...Information Please is an inversion of the current question game and spelling bee vogue. It lets the audience ask the questions. Master of ceremonies is Book Critic Clifton Fadiman, who assembles a board of masterminds for the answering. Masterminds include Franklin Pierce Adams ("F.P.A."), Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase. Listeners supply questions at $2 per question used, $5 per question not correctly answered. Twenty-four hours after the first broadcast last week the audience had submitted 800 questions...
...Never Know (by Cole Porter; produced by John Shubert). Originally boomed for a spring opening on Broadway. You Never Know has elected to cash in on road business till summer, not go to Manhattan till fall. With Cole Porter music, a P. G. Wodehouse plot, Clifton Webb's versatility, Lupe Velez' high spirits, Libby Holman's low register, You Never Know has sex & sophistication, somewhat less breath & bounce. Riding high are Velez and Webb as a manservant and lady's maid who doll up in their employers' togs. Libby Holman, featured in the billing...
Other backfield aspirants were: Ralph Hornblower '41, Clifton Helman '41, Bill Tully '41, Al Jaretzki '41, George Smith '41, Bill Stedman '41, Charles Burnett '41, Herbert Wee '41, D. C. Hamilton '41, Joe Gardella '41, Bob Toomey '40, Bill Tyng '41, Louis Harder '41, Al Stohn '41, Joe Scherer '41, G. W. Bailey '40, Ben Smith '39, Pete Thompson '40, Pete Elser '41, Tom Gaffney '41, Bob James '41, and George Harder...