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...interlude of cheering, Maestro Walter Damrosch, sitting in a box, jumped up, and tried with husky voice and tears in eyes to sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Willkie finished his speech. The crowd rose to the national anthem, while the spotlight held their candidate in its silver glare...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
...Stablemen & Helpers of America crowded into Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week and sat with eyes glued on the stage. From the side appeared an engrossed little group of men, convoying a towering figure. The audience rose, whistling and roaring. Candidate Roosevelt, sober-faced, in the glare of four white spotlights, still under convoy, crossed the stage...
...Hats (music & lyrics by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg, produced by Al Jolson & George Hale). Al Jolson has an anxiety complex. He is afraid that audiences will not like him. Last week he was reassured. After a nine-year stay in Hollywood, where his light was dimmed by the glare of kliegs on more popular faces, he returned to Broadway in a burst of triumph, was prodigally welcomed by a first-night crowd undismayed by an $8.80 top. The vehicle that brought Jolson back to the boards was a rowdy, expansive, old-fashioned musicomedy, with a book so improbable that...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...