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...comrades' affairs have not been going well. Business is so bad they have to sell the garage. Robert goes back to his old job of playing the piano in a prostitutes' bar. One day Gottfried is shot down on the street by a Nazi. Otto and Robert comb the city for the murderer, but someone else gets him first. An alarming telegram comes from Pat and Otto motors Robert to the sanatorium. Pat is dying, but it is a costly place to die in, and her money is almost gone. Otto goes back to Berlin, sells his beloved...
...from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois...
...soliloquies, went home satisfied that they had seen and heard an-other Mary of Scotland, another eloquent Anderson sermon about the depths of human love and human perfidy. Less impressionable people found Playwright Anderson off form this time, deplored his tendency toward purple prolixity wished he might comb the abundant and unruly skeins of his verse a bit more carefully instead of trying to turn out two or three masterpieces a year. Promised within the next month are his High Tor, to be presented by Actress Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic, and The Masque of Kings, to be produced...
...Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer, and before you know it I will be there. This year "Tourate" telegrams have been introduced, which grant a low wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...