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...Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however. The walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...
This week two of the most durable representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps cropped up again. They are the raucous, riotous, wenching duo, Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg, who first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...
...late great original Quirt & Flagg, William Boyd & Louis Wolheim ("Sez you. Sez me."), the theme of the new show would seem strange. The old glory-debunking note of What Price Glory? is missing. Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg join up again, proceed immediately to get in Dutch by avidly pursuing their general's wife. Typical dialogue: "Lady, if I was to know every girl who goes riding with me I could make a fortune selling it to Sears, Roebuck as a mailing list...
Medbury's Quirt & Flagg script is not so yeasty as the famed Anderson-Stallings' play, although plenty tough for radio. But the show is designed to sell Mennen's shaving cream, and Author Medbury doesn't have to worry about feminine outcries, except from bearded ladies...
When it comes to art, both Army and Navy still hanker after gauze and goddesses. The Army's prime favorite is still James Montgomery Flagg's World War I Uncle Sam, pointing imperiously and saying: "I Want YOU." The Navy's oldtime winner was a throat-catcher Howard Chandler Christy-a wistful girl who says: "Gee, I wish I were a man-I'd join the Navy." The Navy is itching to use it again...