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...campaign in Illinois to be the first woman elected to the U. S. Senate, Republican Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick last week found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics...
...their successful intimate review of last season their present attraction would not suffer by inevitable comparison. Last week critics could not restrain themselves from hearking back to the cleverness of last year's show, the clowning of Fred Allen, the gyrations of Clifton Webb, the ululations of Libby Holman...
...McCormick's willingness to go along with the Wets if they carried the State stirred the ire of the Drys. An independent Dry ticket headed by Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, longtime McCormick foe. was widely discussed. Such a ticket, it was conceded, might cost Mrs. McCormick many a Dry vote, throw the election to Nominee Lewis...
...Argonaut, founded in 1877 by Frank Pixley and Fred Somers, enjoyed a bombastic heyday under their regime. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce were early contributors. As editor from 1907 to 1924 the gifted Alfred Holman maintained a high standard of literary excellence. Though parts of the paper seem dull nowadays, San Franciscans point with pride to Editor Morphy's irascible editorials. He is well qualified to tell about the Big Wind in Ireland for he was born and educated there. Onetime gravedigger and longshoreman, he joined the Argonaut in 1925 with a background of 20 years vagabond-reporting...
...blithesome intimate revue. Guild subscription members flocked to see, recalling that it was the first Garrick Gaieties (1925) which uncovered Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Lorenz Hart ("Manhattan," "Sentimental Me," "April Fool"), Funnymen Romney Brent and Sterling Holloway, and the young ladies now individually famed as Libby Holman, June Cochrane, Dorothea Chard. At the end of Act I, audiences left such memories to dramatic historians, cackled instead about what capital fun they were having with the present Bright Young People...