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...pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...
Present Democratic strength in the Senate is 60 seats-four short of the two-thirds majority which can apply gag-rule and railroad through any legislation. Sure Democratic gains for the 74th Congress pushed this strength to 69, with belated returns of other Republican losses indicating that it may go above 70. Never before in the history of the U. S. has either the Republican or Democratic Party reached such a dizzy height of political power in the Senate. Significant steps in the 1934 election to that eminence...
Sennett herself proved to be an almost infallible barometer of public taste. Biographer Fowler denies his sense of humor but says ''perhaps he had the greatest sense of the ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin...
Meanwhile German Protestants were gagged last week by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick. In an effort to force all groups under a new German Protestant Constitution to be drawn up by Dr. Ludwig Müller, a onetime Army chaplain who was made Reichsbischof by Chancellor Hitler (TIME, July 10, 1933), Dr. Frick decreed that there shall be "no discussion of church policies" in public assemblies of three or more persons or by printed or written words. Only the Reichsbischof did Dr. Frick except from this gag, and to him all other Protestants were supposed to listen in obedient silence...
Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...