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Other time-honored elements annoy the Playgoer. He denies that black-and-silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth...
...Republican advisers encamped in Washington. Last week President Hoover went to Valley Forge, now a military park, to deliver a Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican stand-patter. But his advice to the country, to emulate Washington at Valley Forge, may supply a slogan for the 1932 campaign: "Stand Steadfast!" In the 17-minute Valley Forge speech the word "steadfast" recurred seven emphatic times...
High powered slogans were coined by the presslords and plastered up, one so lyrically absurd that it soon sifted into London music-hall patter. Slogan...
...here in America the student sleeps in Old World dormitories and lets the New World go by. The politicians and the press have been in the habit of terming college students radical, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Harvard undergraduate body has been completely a stand-patter...
...theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "Don't Blame It All On Broadway." Conductor Schenck sang tenor and carried the accompaniment; when there was "patter" he took it. Motorman Van Glove boomed the melody. After the War they both grew rich by singing in vaudeville revues, roadhouses, over the radio, the audible cinema. Conductor Schenck took it easy on his yacht between engagements. Last week at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, having filled...