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Born Yesterday brings Brock to Washington, where he has bought a Senator, to try to grab off junk yards all over the postwar world. He installs himself, his henchman and his dumb blonde mistress in a fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like...
...Yesterday (by Garson Kanin; produced by Max Gordon) turns what could have been an angry sermon into an amusing evening. It deals with an ugly customer-a big-time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
...planes to rent to movie companies at $100 to $300 a day, scrap the rest. He estimates that the aluminum alone will bring in $160,000; manufacturers of novelty jewelry will buy the plexiglass for 10? a pound, etc. Mantz hopes to make $1,350,000 on his junk deal. But the Reconstruction Finance Corp. thought that he was a bit optimistic. Its estimate of the scrap value of Mantz's planes...
...second destruction of Louvain (in 1940) was a mere incident. What the Nazis didn't burn, bomb or pilfer from Europe's libraries, they fed into pulping machines to make new paper. The library of the Yugoslav Ministry of War was sold to a junk dealer for 180,000 dinars (about...
...weren't for my family, I'd throw it out. . . . All you hear is junk and commercials and murder mystery...