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...pure comedy. Eileen Crowe is superb for the role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride, and his rendition of the character is therefore perfect. All the lesser roles are filled with skill to be expected only of acors so devoted to their work as the Abbey Players...
...give him another vote on that issue. When Governor Browning left the White House his troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them from labor unions urged the appointment of that eminent owner of a 30,000-acre Tennessee farm and hanger-on of the New Deal, Major George Leonard Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation." Another batch of telegrams favored Mr. McReynolds and, strangely, many of them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning...
Some of the items in Muggeridge's indictment are fairly damning. At school and college Butler was a grind who was ashamed of being one, who prided himself rather on being a hanger-on of one of the best sets. He refused to be dragooned into the Church, instead vacillated a while, then let his father set him up as a sheep-rancher in New Zealand. There he prospered, in five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till...
...nothing to what is was in the good old days--'27 and '28, actually truckloads of bottles and big ones, too, were picked up every Monday. The boys have been easing up since repeal and this fall it's only a couple of sacks," volunteered an old-time stadium hanger...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...