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...private urban agency, Roy M. Cushman, executive secretary of the Boston Council of Social Agencies, and Miss Hall; careers in planning, Lawrence M. Orton, Commissioner of the New York Planning Board; careers in state and federal service, A. S. Flemming and Paul J. Kern, President of the New York City Civil Service Commission; the T.V.A., Merle Fainsod, assistant professor of Government, and W. J. McGlothlin of the T.V.A.; women in community service, Eleanor T. Glueck...
...other men in the running for consolation position were Dick Aldrich and Tudor Gardiner. Aldrich was finally put out by Kern of Cornell in a decision, and Gardiner fell out when he was defeated by Lehr of Lehigh by a Wolf of Pennsylvania whom Gardiner had defeated earlier this year. Wolf was given third place...
...Things You Are (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Musicians' music-i. e., most others will have to hear it three times to like the melody-from Jerome Kern's Very Warm...
Very Warm for May (music by Jerome Kern, book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd). First Kern musicomedy to reach Broadway since 1933, Very Warm for May brought out a glittering first-night audience. The audience proved much more glittering than the show. Kern's tunes were bright and strummy enough, but a raucous, epileptic plot made the show a bird that could sing...
Even such shrewd comics as Hiram Sherman and Eve Arden fail to be very funny, while Kern's prettiest tunes are drowned out by the heavy artillery of the plot. The show gets good only when the barn theatre is forgotten and some attractive youngsters such as Ingenue Grace McDonald sing and dance. But by then, unfortunately, there's no use locking the barn door...