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...feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum in his column: "Your correspondent always has been inclined to have too much lead in the wrong places...
Strictly nonpolitical, the A. L. I. nevertheless last week was the field for one more joust in a historic political quarrel. Every newshawk assigned to Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology...
Compounded of jealousies and cross-accusations as to what who had said about whom, the quarrel got into court because Daughter Roberta thought she had been slandered. Attorney Andrews, she said, had publicly stated that Sister Aimee had been "threatened, intimidated, coerced and blackmailed"-presumably by her daughter. For this Daughter Roberta demanded $150,000 damages from her mother's counsel...
...more than 1,000 years, but use & wont was not the difficulty. Unfortunately for peace, the worst old maid in town had her window very near by. Her complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated...