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After another five weeks in a Zurich clinic for further treatment of his tuberculous spinal infection, Sir Stafford Cripps felt well enough to leave his bed a few times each day, was spending the rest of his time doing crochet and tapestry designs, and rereading some of his old favorites, including Winnie the Pooh and Dr. Doolittle...
...Great Doorstep" is "Tobacco Road" with a Louisiana accent, and without the filth. The former is annoying, and the latter leaves you without even anything to argue about. The result is a waste of the fine comedy sense of Louis Calhern, who plays the leading role of Commodore Crochet, and of the sensitive dramatic talent of Dorothy Gizh, here his over suffering wife...
...there's more than a little beauty in some of the Commodore's eye-raising views on life in the bayous. But they had little to start out with, in the form of material, and wound up with still less. Joy Geffen and Jeanne Perkins Smith, as the two Crochet daughters, and Jack Manning at the son, are effective and almost believable. But the play as a whole is a loss; it tries hard to be slight and unpretentious, and succeeds so well that for all practical purposes it might just as well never be seen. Mr. Shumlin will like...
Various people will remember 1939 for various things: as the year War II started, when Congressman Martin Dies exposed the Red menace, when Joe Louis beat Tony Galento, when Al Capone got out of jail. Mrs. E. M. Noble, of Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...
...greeted them warmly, as did New York's Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia and three New Deal officials, led by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. From nearby Hyde Park Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came to address the delegates, became so interested that she returned to crochet and listen at two more sessions...