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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this article's publication, Winston Churchill arose in the House of Commons to give his fourth war review as First Lord of the Admiralty. With his usual dry punch he declared : "The destruction of U-boats is proceeding normally . . . between two and four a week...
...before long" 2,000 will be so armed. He pointed out that torpedo attack from beneath the surface "can only be delivered at a quarter of the speed that is possible to U-boats on the surface." Not all naval experts would agree. But of convoyed ships declared the First Lord, "less than one in 750 has been sunk...
...slow to warm up to professional, itinerant ice shows. Last week, however, when the Ice Follies of 1940 hit town, New Yorkers crammed Madison Square Garden to the rafters for six nights, whistled and stomped like yokels. For suddenly, it seemed, the variety-show-on-ice had crystallized into first-rate entertainment...
...fourth year the Ice Follies had come to Broadway. The show was started on a shoestring by Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson (a pair of St. Paul skaters who first got into the business 13 years ago when they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at a Manhattan hockey game) and Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late...
...skaters that brought down the house each night were Frick & Frack, a pair of Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...