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Heard oftenest-usually profanely-that night in Minneapolis bars was the name of John Cowles, 42-year-old publisher of the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Rumor was that John Cowles (rhymes with bowls) had bought the two Tribune papers, was going to fold them for good-as he had the Minneapolis Journal two years before...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...remainder of the cast are obvious tools in the hands of the writers' carefree vein. Arthur Margetson gives a polished performance with plenty of English as the philandering husband of Julia who finally forsakes his "Vermin in Ermine" and returns to the fold. Carl Harbord is thoroughly sufficient as spite-lover of Julia and a young accountant who gets way out of his depth to sink ingloriously in the end. And the rest are all good, heavily-accented English characterizations. It won't be theatre weather when "Theatre" hits New York, but fast lines and a fine cast should hold...
Direct daily airmail service for 1,400-odd communities, large and small, is in the cards by mid-1942-a five-fold increase over today's total of 288. Reason: business is increasing so fast for All American Aviation Inc. that profits are at last in sight for the only airmail "milk route" now operating. March volume was 20% over February. April will be up almost as much more to about 15,000 lb.; and when volume reaches 20,000 lb. the company expects to break even...
...opinion at a forum on "Is the Soviet an Enigma" in the Lowell House Common Room monday night was that Communism has greatly improved many aspects of Russian life. Nicholas Slonimski, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...