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When the White House had announced that Franklin Roosevelt was to duplicate the unique performance of Woodrow Wilson in addressing a night session of Congress,* Republicans had sent up a terrific squawk. Shrieked Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher: "Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this...
ORDEAL BY FIRE- Fletcher Pratt- Smith & Haas...
...prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
Thus last week did Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher describe the 16 archfoes of the New Deal whom he had picked as National Finance Committeemen to fill the GOPot for 1936. Great indeed was their stake in what Chairman Fletcher called "the American system." Among the 16 were...
...with Captain Denny; Jane (Helen Chandler), who goes into a decline when pretty Charles Bingley temporarily deserts her; and Elizabeth (Adrianne Allen), whose sharp tongue and unfashionably candid ways finally ensnare the rich and haughty Darcy (Colin Keith-Johnston). Actress Chandler, the blonde and tremulous wife of Actor Bramwell Fletcher, and Actress Allen, the brown-haired, vivacious mate of Actor Raymond Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself...