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...rich-quick promoter backs a play which turns out to be a flop; he sees red and continues to back it. (Manhattan playgoers will be reminded of The Ladder, a flop similarly bolstered...
Last week the City Council also voted over Mayor Murphy's veto to close down the last of the municipal "flop houses" for single men. Eight hundred jobless, ousted from their quarters, marched to City Hall, crowded the galleries while their leaders pleaded for continuance of relief. Those who so chose-and they were few- could go to the county asylum at Eloise where they were given food and shelter on the technicality that they were suffering from the "disease of hunger...
...does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that bottomless pit that is every puppy dog's stomach...
...Because she was an American managers picked her out to play parts that had been hits on Broadway, The Green Hat, Let Us Be Gay, Her Cardboard Lover, They Knew What They Wanted. Before every premiere she buys herself an expensive present. "If the play's a flop I'm comforted; if it's a success I'll have celebrated." She likes champagne cocktails, smokes Gold Flake cigarets, says "on the films" instead of "on the screen," and in general has acquired more British than Alabama mannerisms and moral attitudes. This is her first...
According to many a radio listener, Comedian Chevalier will do well to go back to flesh & blood performances, at least to the talkies, where his winks and grins can serve him. But wiseacres who call his Chase & Sanborn (tea & coffee) broadcast a "flop" forget that in radio no one flops who pleases his client. Chase & Sanborn recently doubled Chevalier's time to an hour (8 to 9 p. m. Sundays). He has a 26-week contract for which he will receive well over $100,000, probably the most ever paid for an extended series...