Word: idols
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...after the investigation that drove Jimmy Walker from office had cooled, Jimmy and Betty came home from Europe as man & wife. Still the popular idol of many a New York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...only way he knows how, and his attempts, coupled with a few side plots furnish the humor of the picture. Apparently he knows how to break up a platonic friendship, for the picture ends as his bride slips a symbol of plenty of offspring in the form of an idol, into his bedroom. The story ends there--shucks...
...Frances Ferrer, to design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went on sale in Manhattan and Chicago, was snapped up by the hundreds at 50? each by citizens with breakage in their hearts. The object, named "Wackaroo," is a small (4½ inches high), idol-like, plaster figure, in red, black, white, blue or yellow, designed to fit the angry human hand. Directions for using: "When you are mad or feel like busting things, be sure to grab him quick and smash him - SMACK! - to bits against the wall and then, relax!" The wackaroo smashes...
...that such a committee is not needed at all, that Congress should drop the whole idea of a separate investigation and leave the job to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attorney-General Jackson has proclaimed the superiority of this agency in combatting sabotage. But J. Edgar Hoover, the idol of all American boys from sixteen to sixty, has a healthy thirst for publicity in his own right; and his record in the "Red-scare" of the last war plus more recent incidents like the "Detroit recruiting case" afford little comfort. On the other hand, his position in an-executive department...
...much fervent fans owe to these and other experts of the lens is Holly wood's well-guarded secret. But many an idol stays at the top of the heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless...