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Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...comes back to him and the story leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles the return of Junior Green & wife like a straight-harmony writer, reintroducing the original theme to shade, sour and yet enrich the final chord. More, he makes the bareness of his story, the concavity of his omissions, act as a sounding board for the overtone of irony...
...minutes. Once Caroline threw 254 in half an hour, a record. Last week she established another record by throwing 211 ringers in 286 throws, for a percentage of 73.8. By beating all five of her opponents, including her sister, in the round-robin, she became champion. Charlotte, a shade browner and one inch shorter, who like her sister, throws a high slow pitch with 1¼ turns, was runner...
...shade of Edmund Burke may have smiled reminiscently as University of Chicago's goateed Dean of Education Charles Hubbard Judd thundered this peroration in Chicago's West Side Stadium one night last week. But on the faces of 20,000 listening parents and teachers were no smiles. Grimly they had set their jaws and wills against the Board of Education which week before had trimmed $4,000,000 worth of what it called "fads and frills" (junior high schools, kindergartens, physical educators, etc., etc.) out of Chicago's school system (TIME, July...
...West Coast logging camps the minimum rate was to be $20.40 for 48 hours. This code made a bow toward forestry conservation but General Johnson said he would not even consider a 48-hour week. Employers insisted their pay rates were nearly double current levels. Wool Textiles. A shade above the cotton code, the wool code provided for a 40-hour week, with $14 as minimum pay in the North. $13 in the South. Machines were limited to two weekly shifts of 40 hours each. Child labor was banned. Oil. Price and production control still saw big companies and independent...