Word: ninges
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Unhappily, the novelty of the setting soon wears off and Mr. Jolson, omitting his traditional blackface and wearing eve ning clothes throughout the show (which is a weak to-do about a woman who leaves her husband, but later returns to him), wastes a lot of his genuine talent on several pitiably bad songs. He cracks appallingly stale jokes-among them, the one about the girl who resents having her beauty compared to an old Rembrandt. In Act II, however, Comedienne Patsy Kelly capers through some coarse monkeyshines. Mr. Jolson sings a Yiddish folk song which is eminently successful...
...chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning...
...adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote of 323 to 236 the Reichstag rejected Communist and Fascist motions censuring the Government. Next by a vote of 325 to 237 Herr Brüning was given a free hand with his budget-balancing program which involves a new $125,000,000 foreign loan (TIME, Oct. 13). Then came a setback. Amid extremist whoops the Reichstag voted 395 to 147 an amnesty to all political prisoners who have not actually attacked a member...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
...German government feared a Putsch, its leaders hid their emotions well. Both President von Hindenburg and his protege, Prime Minister Brüning (whose Catholic Centre party gained seven seats in the election) ended the week by going off for a rustic, post-election rest...