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...country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly...
...would require at least half a dozen student vagabonds today to attend the lectures which require the consideration of every chronic lecture room loiterer. At 9 o'clock nothing of great importance is likely to occur beyond those events which always enliven the existence of every Yard dweller at the hour when mops and pails come into their own in hands of the Yard biddies...
...disconnected, told in little scenes, shuffled up almost indiscriminately. One may live in Manhattan for years without ever knowing more than two or three of the types he presents (although the people he presents are nearly always more than types?they are individuals), but the fact that a Manhattan dweller may not see his town as Mr. Dos Passos does, merely shows that the writer has done a thorough job.. The spectacle is unsavory, but it is strong and there is no other like...
...FALL GUY-The trials of a flat-dweller in Manhattan who could not hold his job and nearly went to jail in the last...
...audience, there must be some people who haven't heard a joke in ten years. And all the other ingredients that go to make up a successful musical comedy are there in profusion. The music is catchy and pleasant?indeed some of the songs will probably afflict the flat-dweller's ear from the phonograph next door for months to come. Vivienne Segal has one of the best voices in light opera and uses it with effectiveness and precision. Richard Carle and Billy B. Van carry most of the comedy between them and do it well...