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...flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar to buy a plane. Some 8,000 other compatriots (mostly in Michigan) contributed more, bought 5,000 postcards to be carried in the plane which was named Justice for Hungary...
...falls in love with Captain Trumbull, a "damn Yankee." For the purposes of the plot Barbara is transformed from the elderly dame of "shoot if you must this old gray head" fame to a winsome flaxen-haired flower of the South. Needless to say, her father opposes the marriage, sah, in which opinion he is supported by all the lads and lassies of the town who vilify Barbara as traitor, overlooking the fact that among their number are many able bodies young fellows who spend their time lounging around town instead of joining the Confederate forces...
...faith in an inerrant Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics...
There are eight other features in the bill, the best of which is a singing act, "The Little Production in One," by Bill Bailey, Lynn Cohen and Estelle Davis. William Hallen and Ethel Hunter in a sparkling skit, "Just For Fun," and Frank Wilcox and company in "Sah-h," are among the other on entertainers...
Conversation overheard at Memorial : Waiter No. 1 - "Dis am a fine structyah, Sam?" Waiter No. 2 (critically) - "De exteryh is very fine, sah, but dere is one thing I have notussed about de interyur, - dey have only got foah of de windows painted...