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This year Easter falls on its latest possible date: April 25. Only once in the past 100 years-in 1886-has it been so late. It will not happen again in this century.* The timing of Easter, a confusing system mixing astronomy and ecclesiasticism, was worked out by the early Christian Church at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. and has never been changed. The Council provided that...
Chocolate Saints. U.S. children will be expected to contribute to the war effort by going without chocolate Saint Nicholases, Saint Valentine's hearts, Easter bunnies and eggs and all other chocolate novelties for the duration. So ruled the War Production Board...
...them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons (from the Federal Government) claiming some authority," only to have the whole thing abandoned just before Pearl Harbor. Frantically reinstated last January, the Tonawanda project cannot now be completed until after Easter and the water supply is still in question. Said Roy Brockett last week, in despair over his housing problem: "We've been told the stuff is going to come through but nothing has been done...
...sure-fire hit. For entertainment "Holiday Inn" almost hits the top; all a spectator could ask would be more music and less story. By way of songs, this show turns out to be one of the most prolific in months. Besides the warmed over Berlin favorites, "Lazy" and "Easter Parade," two new tunes are noteworthy, "White Christmas" and "Be Careful, It's My Heart." Astaire at his agile best with an inebriate routine and a firecracker number shows his first top-notch work since the good old days with Ginger Rogers...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...