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...year-in tax revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers, e.g., three Oklahoma City boots were arrested last week, charged with a badly botched conspiracy to kill four competitors. Surveying the situation, Tulsa Tribune Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones concluded: "What we have is a system of gigantic hypocrisy...
...technical aspects of the production--are on the whole excellent. Paul Mann, in the comic part of a social worker, deserves special mention for his performance of a role which is somewhat too long. And the director, John Stin, earns much credit for his intelligent use of George Jenkin's complex sets, even if he, together with the playwright, is responsible for the shapeless aspects of the early parts of the play...
Embroidery at the Ritz. Jenkin stayed, and he also sold his much-embroidered orchestrations to such other big-name outfits as Whiteman, Goodman, Lopez and Kostelanetz. He also managed to do some composing of his own, turned up a wartime hit San Fernando Valley. Hi biggest single venture to date ("comparing it to all the other things is like stacking a symphony alongside a pack of pop tunes") is Manhattan Tower, a frequently maudlin, occasionally sprightly four-section tribute to the big city, which he wrote in 1945 after a three-week champagne party in a suite of Manhattan...
Button, who captured the world crown in London earlier this month, is expected to have little difficulty with other contenders. Hayes A. Jenkin of Akron, Ohio, G. Auston Holt of Berkeley, California, and Richard Dwyer also of Berkeley, are rated as his top opposition. Jenkins and Holt placed third and fifth, respectively, in the international competition...
...with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered...