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...Little Chillun (by Hall Johnson; produced by Lew Cooper, Meyer Davis and George Jessel) played for a while on Broadway in 1933, has since then had healthy revivals elsewhere. A Negro melodrama of sex and religion (which are made 0 seem much the same thing), its story is inept, long-winded. What has obviously fetched audiences, even if it has not sufficiently rewarded them, is the well-blended Hall Johnson Choir's singing of well-known spirituals and Hall Johnson's own music...
...victory arch . . . unless . . . we let the people who do the Macy Thanksgiving Parade, or the Soya Bean Association, or the Tight Rope Artists Union have a chance to compete. . . . In my opinion this design . . . is atrocious in every respect. It is flimsy, it is ugly, it is inept...
...state of Ohio is truly in labor, it would appear she is about to beget a mouse, in keeping with her tradition of bringing forth inconsequential Presidents all the way from the inept Grant to the incredible Harding. If the Republicans are so blind as to think the country desires a return to Harding normalcy, and are making ready to nominate another nonentity, I can only conclude that the fourth term will best help solve our postwar problems...
...agents found little difficulty in organizing their own Burmese Nationalist Revolutionary Party. They also fostered an underground Burma Independence Army and acquired the support of Dr. Ba Maw, a former Premier whom the British once imprisoned. Thirty-two nationalists were smuggled to Japan, there trained as pro-Japanese agitators. Inept British administrators did nothing effective to offset these preparations. "Meanwhile," wrote Thien Pe, "British imperialism was fighting on three fronts in Burma. It justly hated the pro-Jap elements. It openly disdained the freedom-loving neutrals, and it foolishly mistrusted the Communists." According to Thien Pe. Burmese Communists consistently opposed...
Harvard's basketeers ended their 1943 season on the sourest not possible Saturday night, falling to an inept Yale quinet 44 to 43 at the Indoor Athletic Building in what was undoubtedly the worst Ivy League game of the season, if not of many seasons...