Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing Out the News (by Charles Friedman and Harold J. Rome; produced by Max Gordon in association with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Biggest musical find last season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land...
Pert, jaunty, ingenious, fast as a pickpocket's fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could...
...previous series, Reporter Clifford Blackburn did most of the heavy work, bore down especially hard on WPA loafing and "incompetence." Last week the Tribune printed an editorial acknowledging "compliments" from letter-writers on its WPArticles, but nowhere in its columns appeared any reference to the week's biggest news about its series...
...executive job as manager was Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 41, onetime logger who has been the Oregonian's managing editor since 1933. Editor Paul Roelofson Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki, who was summoned in 1934 to modernize the ailing Oregonian (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935), did such a good job it is once more Portland's largest paper (108,350 daily, 145,130 Sunday), is once...
...radio did nothing to minimize the European crisis, however, in the U. S. the networks did a bang-up job of bringing the throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night...