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Leave It to Me! (book by Bella & Samuel Spewack; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is big-name, big-scale, big-town musicomedy: the season's first show to fetch $6.60 on opening night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...fetch a surgeon quickly; we still may save him. You women there, bring cordials - lay her down - gently, gently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operas in English | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...could hardly see. Two Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death by Descent | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Daro outshone his littermates Dora, Mora and Maro. Owner Ellis bred only for utility until two years ago. has since had success on the bench with dogs bred for both use and beauty. Sturdy Max was sturdy. Daro has been trained by Handler Charles Palmer to fetch pheasants as well as sprout feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some 200,000 Greeks stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Paul & Margaritas | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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