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...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
...Editor Edward Weeks, who says that radio is his son's daily "equivalent of Keith's Vaudeville, which at his age I was allowed to see only once a fortnight. . . . Henry Aldrich [is the] blood brother of Penrod and Tom Sawyer; and the Lone Ranger ... is the Robin Hood of our time...
...weather has been a wet blanket to big-time outdoor symphonies this summer. In Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, 50% of the scheduled performances have been called on account of rain. In Manhattan, about one out of four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York...
...Sympathetic." What started it all was a round-robin wire sent to 300 educators last January by the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, asking educators to speak out against restricting Jewish enrollment in schools. From Dartmouth's Hopkins came a surprising wire: "UNDERSTAND COMPLEXITY OF PROBLEM AND AM SYMPATHETIC WITH PURPOSES YOU HAVE IN MIND. CANNOT JOIN WITH YOU HOWEVER...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...