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...Department's foolish shipments caused great annoyance to the S. 0. S. When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over???sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...
...appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this country over???that's all poppycock. When you look at the wild-eyed crowd of half-baked human junk constituting Communism . . . you will know that there's not a chance in the world...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal). When Showboat was finished, Universal had plenty of material left over???pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...
...Performance. The action was merely suggested, never carried out. The actors sang in shrill, piercing falsetto voices, displaying incredible endurance. Most of the principals were relieved by their understudies before the evening was over???except the prima donna, who carried on until midnight. The stage manager came out occasionally and told the audience what all the action was about. a stage hand moved on and off with tables, chairs and other props, as the "scene" changed. The costumes were the last word in Eastern sumptuousness; they were said to cost $500 apiece. There was no scenery...
...including her offhand promise to divorce her husband and make a respectable man out of her lover. But in the morning, when the impossible but wealthy husband arrives, she forces her night-owl to hoot some efficient lies that restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over???and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love, this play by Ernest Vajda borders on tragedy, saved...