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...title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again: "You won't regret it ... [flutter of turning pages]. . . . Come and get it. . . ." Least whistleable, least inspired Gershwin item on the program was Dawn of a New Day, the "Official March" he wrote for the New York World...
...four, Sacha Guitry puts on the greatest parade of kings, ministers and great ladies ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...
Toys (Chihuahuas, Pekingese, Pomeranians, etc.). The smallest and fanciest dogs are the beloved fancy of the bulkiest fanciers. Bulkiest of all at Westminster was John B. Royce of Brookline. Mass., whose tiny, brilliant red homebred Pekingese bitch, Kai Lo of Dah Lyn, pitter-pattered to victory...
What Sir John had not anticipated was that his old friend, famed archeologist Professor Tennant, and his beautiful young daughter Lyn would take a fancy to the Hestia and go along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit a hurricane, sent out an SOS intercepted by a Cunard liner with Sir John aboard. During the black hours before the liner reached the battered Hestia, the bosun went overboard, the chief engineer died, the professor's daughter found out the sullen first mate was not a gentleman...
...strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives laid...