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...Bantam LaGuardia said, "Phooey!" (TIME, March 4). The trouble with the political wise boys in all generations is that they are unable to recognize new issues and the men that fit them. Around 1858 another bantam, Stephen A. Douglas, about the size of Little Flower LaGuardia, looked at Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and he said, "Phooey!" Result: he stood holding Abe Lincoln's hat at the next inauguration. Little Flower is just too close to Buster to see his stature...
...Federation-sponsored traveling show is a varied flower bed of 30 paintings, eight pieces of sculpture and 28 prints all culled from Richmond's big Argentine exhibit (TIME, Jan. 29). The show will give many a gallerygoer his first glimpse of a national art which parallels U. S. art more closely than any other country...
Your review of My Little Chicadee [TIME, Feb. 26] reads: "highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West...
...bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...
...rumored that the Hays office has of late been letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he climbs in beside her. "you shouldn't be wearing your fur coat at a time like this...