Word: lots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposed by the House as money for a "joy ride" (TIME, June 12), but shoved through with the third deficiency bill by Senate pressure, $340,000 became available last week to send Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd back to Little America, claim a lot more of it for the U. S. The far-roving mind of Franklin Roosevelt was captivated by Admiral Byrd's arguments for this venture and last week, after a map session at his desk, he ordered the expedition to proceed by early October. In on the planning were Commandant (Rear Admiral) Russell Randolph Waesche...
Yokel Boy (music & lyrics by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, Sam H. Stept; produced by Lew Brown). Yokel Boy turns loose a lot of lively entertainers and a superior chorus strung along on the feeblest of books...
...gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life is Manhattan's sotty El Morocco, where she surveys all the bibbing and napery with a waitress's eye, concludes: "I bet this place has a lot of dirty linen...
...thing, the show has a lot of dependable talent: the amusing, if less than Bea-Lillie, drollness of Luella Gear; the Gallic, if less than Maurice-Chevalier, charm of Jean Sablon; the dazed, middle-aged prankishness of Bobby Clark ("I'm Robert the Roue of Reading, Pa."); the borderline sanity of Abbott & Costello; the magic bartending of "Think a Drink" Hoffman, who turns water into not only wine, but dry Martinis, Pink Ladys and piping hot coffee...
...Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much as $15,000 a week, Wheeling Steel gets a lot of air advertising for a little. The orchestra men are unionized and get $38 a week each. The other regulars are considered 'amateurs." The veteran Singing Millmen, one a steel-plate "shearman," another a switchman, get $20 each over their regular weekly wage. The hotcha Steele Sisters, a blondy...