Word: mums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with Nitti free and McLane mum, only hope for the Chicago bartenders seemed to be a court-appointed receiver, who was temporarily in possession of the local's treasury. From President William Green, who had subscribed to a pious anti-racketeer resolution* at the last Federation convention, came no word or action. Louder still was the silence from Vice President George E. Browne...
...Mum's the Word (conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance...
...vaudeville the absurdity of Savo's silent comedy was heightened by the persistent squeaking of his shoes. Last week his shoes didn't squeak but what his admirers regretted most was that Mum's the Word closed after four showings. Savo's clowning evokes a world much more fey. much less relevant to the real world than Chaplin's, and Savo's few attempts at solemnity never approach Chaplin's. But to anyone who enjoys Savo's world, a whole evening of it isn't too long...
...Britain ("We must continue to help the fighting men of Britain to preserve that rim of freedom which is gradually shrinking and which, if we permit it to continue to shrink, will shrink to the edge of our own shores"). But at week's end he was still mum on the subject of the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee...
Busy but discreetly mum were black-browed John Edgar Hoover and his FBIndians. Months ago they warned U. S. industrialists that sabotage might lie ahead, handed out a printed pamphlet on how to head it off by greater vigilance, better plant supervision. Until they could nab an active saboteur, they had to keep their evidence to themselves. Up to last week, they had apparently nabbed none. Not thus inhibited was Martin Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public...