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This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that...
Author Pratt (Ordeal By Fire, Hail Caesar!) is an uncritical, graphic, historical popularizer, with militant enthusiasms and a weakness for adjectives. In addition he writes for Army & Navy journals, is credited with a formula for determining the fighting value of battleships. For Big-Navy men, Author Pratt's latest fighting popularization should make comforting and frequently exciting reading...
What regard the natives had for Anglo-Saxon property rights was last week fairly evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy...
...girls realizing that they're caricatures and making the most of it. The inevitable thrust at Yale is unusually satisfying, and some of the extraordinary political situations concocted by the authors yield flows of amusing cracks. An abundance of competent workmanship has gone into this show, "So Proudly We Hail," but it is lacking in the verve that would make it stand out in the history of Pudding theatricals...
...Night at the Hasty Pudding Club brought over 300 members back to the Holyoke Street Club-house to partake of the pudding, prepared once a year from the recipe which has been preserved since 1770, and to have the first view of this year's show, "So Proudly We Hail!" Tonight is the formal first night for the musical comedy, which will play for one more night in the Clubhouse before moving into the Copley Theatre in Boston for Thursday and Friday performances...