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...Broadway these heavenly days, angels are everybody in general. Said Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...
...abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train, and whom Author Welty manages to pin down during the few days when they are in a bustle over the marriage of one of the girls...
...Flit Guns and Shotguns. Such nonsense is the highly profitable stock-in-trade of a professional primitive named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. For five years he beat the drums in John Scott Trotter's slick sweet band, accompanying Bing Crosby's radio show. It bored him. One day he decided "to louse up some old cornplasters like Chloe." During rehearsals he began to experiment in sound effects as a substitute for music...
Soon his men were synchronizing cowbells chromatically arranged like a xylophone; a klaxon, a popgun, a saw, a fire-bell, an octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two octaves of tuned doorbells, an auto pump, a car motor, a Smith & Wesson .22 pistol. His ten players-nine men and a girl harpist-are proficient at making every conceivable noise capable of emerging from a human larynx...
...already hired a new trainer, Roy Waldron, to handle her stable, Owner Arden then dug in behind Smith, asked the veterinary schools at Pennsylvania, Cornell and Northwestern Universities to find out what effect ephedrine had on a horse. Meanwhile, less innocent race-tracksters wondered if other trainers besides Tom ("Flit-Gun") Smith had discovered formulas of their...