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...thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
Questions on current labor problems elicited the following statement, "I believe profoundly in unionization and collective bargaining: that's the only way labor con meet capital on common ground. As for the A. F. of L. fight with the C. I. O.--that's a family squabble, and not for me to meddle...
...Portland, Ore., 245 printers on the Oregonian, News-Telegram and Journal went back to work after their five-day strike failed to win them a seven-hour day. The three papers ceased publication, cut local news off four big newspaper-con-trolled radio stations, persuaded neighboring publishers to send in no additional out-of-town papers. Starved for news and surfeited with months of lumber and teamsters' strikes, Portland had little sympathy for the printers. Portland editorial men, strongly non-Guild, offered no help, so the strikers had little choice but to accept the publishers' pre-strike offer...
...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
...already intimated, Charlotte Greenwood, amazingly resourceful as Letty, and equally versatile as herself, is the raison d'etre of the show. Con- sequently, her support is rather faulty. Romaine Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within the acting should not be perfect, lost it cease to be acting. Russell Fillmore and Isabel Withers are good enough as the dim-witted, ineffectual brother-in-law and sister of the heroine. But good or bad, none of the supporting cast matters much. As the revelation or re-introduction...