Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week excitable youngsters at the University of Michigan believed their campus was the scene of the first U. S. suicide encouraged by Composer Seress' dolorous dirge. After listening to Hal Kemp's orchestra play Gloomy Sunday over the radio, John Granville Williams, 24, moody graduate student in chemistry, hanged himself...
Last week it was revealed that to picture and report the contemporary scene entirely from the viewpoint of satire was Editor McGuire's big idea. On newsstands went 41,000 copies of a glossy new 35? magazine named Ringmaster, The World in Caricature. Vol. I, No. 1 offered the writings of John V. A. Weaver, John R. Tunis, Stanley Walker, the drawings of Peggy Bacon, William Cropper, David Low, Mitchell Siporin...
...story, whose scene is Paris, is laid in the future. France, after a bitter civil war between Communists and Royalists, has become a kingdom, and the Bourbon lilies once again float over the Louvre. Walter Leroy, a young Manhattan doctor with liberal leanings, is on his way to Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected...
...then goes up into the Maine woods to try and recover his voice which has also left him in the crisis. He is forsaken by all except the somewhat questionable remainder of Edward Everett Horton and Allan Jenkins, who, in a touching scene, refuse to leave Al. In the healing air of Maine he recovers his voice, and stays to fall in love with little Miss Sybil Jason and her aunt. Miss Jason is the Warner Brother's stack of chips in the child actress poker game. She is not as pretty as Shirley Temple, nor as pleasantly ugly...
...Queen scowled more than ever, reminding Alice of nothing so much as the sky just before a great rainstorm starts. "Marx! Yes, I saw him in "A Night at the Opera". Is the book as funny as the stateroom scene...