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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan's current bill, courtesy of Paramount, blends a musical and a drama into a thoroughly interesting program. "Cocoanut Grove" deals with the difficulties of a band-leader (Fred MacMurray) in getting a mate for himself and a job for the boys. The latter is taken care of when he lands in the Grove--an inaccurate replica of the Ambassador's famous ballroom--and the former when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing...
Meantime, appropriation of $3,019,000,000 of the President's $5,000,000,000 spending program went through the House like a breeze. The $3,019,000,000 is relief money: mainly $1,250,000,000 for WPA, $965,000,000 for PWA (plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...
Venerable, 80-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, great & good foe of Franklin Roosevelt's heavy spending program, announced he would soon quit Washington, return home to Lynchburg. Friends gave two reasons: 1) he is disgusted with the turn of events in Congress; 2) several weeks ago his doctor told him to go home and rest...
Final guest conductor of the evening will be Leroy Anderson '29, well known here as former leader of the University Band. He will present the Dance of the Buffoons from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden," and Strauss's "Vienna Blood" Waltzes. Concluding the program is one of Anderson's own composition called Harvard Fantasy...