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...club was giving a Saturday night charity show at $6.60 per plate. Some 600 guests attended, among them Senator Long. His host was Songwriter Gene Buck. The Senator had been drinking before he arrived at the club. His strident voice rang out louder than usual as he barged around among the other diners. He sat down with strangers, made himself objectionable with vulgar greetings. Spotting a plump girl with a full plate before her, he marched to her table, snatched the plate from her, yapped: "You're too fat already. I'll eat this." He danced just once...
Yellow lights glowed from all four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...
...Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder than Marlene Dietrich, planned to stop sending its feature pictures to outlying districts before they have been screened in Paramount's pretentious string of urban theatres...
...vain Professor Moley said on sailing. "I am going to make myself useful and furnish background for the Delegation." London whispers that Professor Moley, "The Isolationist," was coming to supersede Secretary Hull, "The Internationalist," dinned louder and louder until they beat like African war drums on the U. S. Delegation's sensitive ears...
...selecting a jury. Not so in this case. Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer's elbow. At last the Judge himself comes down from the bench and with his hands in his pockets stands near Mr. Steuer...