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...sorry tradition of pre-War operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance salesman, engage in vaudeville patter in the Golden Nugget Saloon; and those in which Miss Swarth out, with or without the somewhat tremulous accompaniment of Mr. Boles, sings // I Should Lose You, Little Rose of the Rancho, The Vigilante Song, Where Is My Love. By her singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will...
...from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
...show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline, tossed '"Swifty" White into the street for making...
Political Townsendites were evidently out to emulate the efforts of the Anti-Saloon League and American Legion to win endorsements from candidates in exchange for votes. First step was to send letters to every member of Congress asking: "Can we rely upon your help to pass a bill embodying the Townsend Plan at the coining session? Yes. . . . No. ... In the issue of The National Townsend Weekly of Dec. 30 we will publish either your answer to this questionnaire or that you failed to answer. Please be assured that we desire only to correctly inform our followers of your attitude...
...only 70% of the 1917 level, and while 324 cities reported 23,683 arrests for drunken driving last year, the total was below the 1928-31 average. That the nation definitely had its back turned on Prohibition sentiment was evident at the 28th annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America in St. Louis, at which nothing was new but the songs. William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson deplored the sale of 3.2% beer. Bishop James Cannon Jr. was named to head the League's revived National Legislative Committee. Francis Scott McBride was once more elected General Superintendent. There were...