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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery of items in WPA's proposed budget (the first ever submitted to Congress in itemized form) which could be shaved or excised; uneasiness about the efficiency of WPA's handling of large projects and about its executive set-up (last week the committee, having found $21,000,000 could be knocked out of WPA's $71,000,000 list...
...weeks before had won the Two Thousand Guineas, first of the season's Big Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats. A notorious Derby jinx had plagued the Rosebery silks ever since 1905 when the present Earl's father, onetime Prime Minister of England, won his third and last Derby...
...Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan Films). The year 1939 is the biggest season Gilbert & Sullivan ever had. Hot on the heels of Broadway's three Mikados-one hallmarked, one half-swing and one pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...
...word that Gilbert, no note that Sullivan, did not write. A few omissions include the duet between Katisha and Ko-Ko, There is beauty in the bellow of the blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped by Tin Pan Alley...
...afternoon in Philadelphia last week the small, neat auditorium of Woman's Medical College was abuzz with 500 stenographers, teachers, socialites and charwomen, members of the first group that ever banded together specifically to ward off cancer in their own bodies. Last year Woman's Medical College, only institution of its kind in the U. S.,* got $2,400 from the American Medical Association...