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...play, however, lacks the brilliance that audiences have become accustomed to in such musicals as "DuBarry," "Lady in the Dark," and "Sons o' Fun." The settings by Harry Horner, especially in the dream scenes, are far below his best work in "Lady in the Dark," while Irene Sharaff's costumes border on the garish. The story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such...
...glummer President, reading the reports to the press, might just as honestly have emphasized the bottlenecks, the shortages at hand and to come. But Franklin Roosevelt, beaming like Jack Horner with a plum on his thumb, dismissed his press conference in high humor, with an air of bring-on-the-next-problem, haul-this-one-away...
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner...
Died. Henry Horner, 61, Governor of Illinois; of nephritis, after long sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...
...toured the U. S., gave auditions to 500 aspirants to the "All American Youth Orchestra" which he plans to take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught. There were young players from recognized...