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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KNOW YOU WILL DO A GOOD JOB AND THAT YOU WILL PROVE TO A LOT OF OLD FASHIONED DIEHARD HALF MUMMIFIED PROFESSORS AND OTHER SUPPOSED TO BE EDUCATORS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT BY THE USE OF PICTURES AND RADIO YOU CAN RE-EDUCATE MANY MILLIONS. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE THEATRES ALL ENTERPRISING THEATRES WILL WORRY...
President Roosevelt sat in his big armchair with his back to the windows of his oval office and beamingly told newshawks as they trooped in for their press conference that he had a lot of news for them. He told about General MacArthur's being held over as Chief of Staff, told about plans for a new local airport. Then he intimated that he had something really important...
...invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact or a silver ash tray...
...wine from bad. "Purposely delayed until the excitement of repeal had abated," The Complete Wine Book proposes to tell U. S. amateurs how to know, buy, store, make, serve wines. Far from first of its kind in the field, it is most complete, most up-to-date of the lot. Written plainly, authoritatively, it attacks the "ridiculous ritual" and "absurd snobbishness" which have sprung up around U. S. wine-drinking, appeals to common sense rather than pretentious palates...
...fine array of talent has been gathered up to produce the film's musical numbers, but the combined efforts of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Burton Lane and Harold Adamson, and Irving Berlin failed to produce a number that we are aching to hear again. Best tunes of the lot: "When My Ship Comes In," "With Your Head on My Shoulder...