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...what is best for Rosalind Russell. Last week in Manhattan, she was again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific...
...Rave Notices...
From then until Davison's resignation in 1934 the club received almost uninterrupted rave notices. The Boston Transcript's headlines of the spring of 1933, however, were a glaring exception: "Dr. Davison makes the best of the present material in the soft, mild-mannered Harvard chorus." It was true, that Davison accepted practically all-comers in the club, "provided they can make a human sound and don't have a file-like voice . . ." He was content with a "homogeneous mediocrity of tone...
...patients can always describe their symptoms crisply, e.g., "I'm all nervous inside and pass out," or "I can't seem to remember things and I rave at night," and they know where they "hurt." Women hysteria patients, on the other hand, can never tell precisely what ails them: they babble vaguely and dramatically about aches & pains all over. And they commonly have twice as many symptoms...
Metcalf said that "the Library of Congress cards require too much space and money." The 1,500,000 cards that will eventually be withdrawn will rave the Library $15,000 in space, the equivalent of one cent per card. In this way, the saving in catalogue space will balance the cost of removing the cards...