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...Margie" is full of nonsense and sentiment. As anything but a long laugh for the sons and daughters of the late 20's- it's a dismal failure. But for those who drank their gin in tumblers, it's surefire. Except for Margie's drawers...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
...just one of a hundred fields of endeavor. Baked beans were scarce in New England. Fatback was scarce in the South and thousands of cooks were grumpily boiling vegetables without it-just like the damyankees. But you could get things, Mac. If you wanted to load up on wine, gin, rum or all three you could get a bottle of Scotch. You could get a new automobile by trading in your used car for a reasonable price-say about nine dollars. In San Francisco one John M. McLachlan got a used bathtub for only $8.25 above the ceiling price...
...biggest worry to a series commentator is the reaction of the fans away from the ballpark. "They don't know the park and can't visualize exactly what's happening," says Corum, in his gin-croak voice. "Like last year, when the ball got away from the outfielders and was lost in the shrubs. I said: 'This is like town lot baseball; they've even lost the ball in the weeds.' And then I annoyed 'em when I told again what lousy baseball they were playing. I think I said...
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...