Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Carroll's Sketch Book, with no more Broadway openings promised until August, officially rings out the 1934-35 theatre season with lots of fuss, little fun. This year's Carrolling is supposed to represent in 50 scenes a U. S. chorine's idea of her nation's past. The doll-voices of a bevy of "the most beautiful girls in the world" inaugurate this motif by squealing in unison...
Frock-Coated Communism? Socialistic implications of the New Deal power program so alarmed Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that he was moved to ask: "Are we guarding the back door against bewhiskered aliens with bombs and torches and at the same time inviting Communism in the front door dressed up in top hat and frock coat?" When the editor of the Chamber of Commerce's houseorgan demanded the return of the "old order," powermen leaped cheering to their feet...
...week (see p. 11), the powermen puzzled over what made their industry such a hot political issue. They listened to papers citing a 16% reduction in domestic rates, a 31% increase in domestic consumption in the last five Depression years. They pondered the fact that in 70% of the nation's 20,000,000 wired homes, the power bill is less than 7? per day. They were reminded that total revenues from domestic power sales amounted to less than all State and Federal gasoline taxes combined. And home they went, resolved to use every channel of publicity...
This systematic campaign against a play acknowledged as high art regardless of its political significance reached such nation-wide proportions last week that the strictly nonradical Authors' League of America was moved to come to the defense of the harassed New Theatre League. Declared Vice President Elmer Davis (History of the New York Times, Friends of Mr. Sweeney) of the Authors' League: "The tactics employed to suppress presentation of Waiting for Lefty are familiar and timeworn. Technicalities of the fire laws, obsolete statutes from the old 'blue laws' period, red tape in connection with licenses...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...