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...best new numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...
According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...
...University of Paris), Laureat de l'Academic Francaise, Officier de la Legion d'Honneur, on "La Guerre Europeenne Actuelle." 1. La Guerre Actuelle et ses Differences avec les Guerre Anterieures. 2. L'Instruction d'une Armee pour la Guerre Actuelle. 3. Les Tranchees et l'Existence qu'on y mene. 4. La Preparation dune Attaque. 5. Comment s'execute une Attaque. 6. Comment est remportee une Grande Victoire. 7. La Defense d'une Position. 8. Les Qualites de l'Officier et du Soldat. Monday evenings at eight o'clock...