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...Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
...Rabbit Fall Hop will be held after the Dartmouth game, October 23. The Harrington orchestra with Ruth Bates as soloist will provide the music. The decoration motif is to be Indian-John Harvard...
...poem "For the Ballet of Sulla" entwines rumba notes and jarring subway trains with rich musical echoes from the past, it is not unfair to say that its inspiration is the same as that of most youthful verse since "The Waste Land". It is gratifying, however, to find this motif displayed not banally or sensationally, but with true lyrical feeling in a profusion of really haunting evocations. Less ambitiously, and in a more quizzical mood, Mr. G. M. Messing has composed another modernistic elegy, based on Jewish ceremonial, "The Wailing Wall...
...surrealist is Berney, owner of Berney's Restaurant, Jacksonville, Fla., but a wide-awake, up-and-coming restaurateur, who carries out a green motif from A to Z, scattering Irish shamrocks about his establishment with finesse seldom equaled by a Jew. Dressed completely in green day and night, he will give to any woman dressed entirely in green the choice of his menu, gratis...
Producer Sol Lesser, who made the picture, got his background as a childstar impresario by manufacturing pictures for Jackie Coogan, Jackie Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth...