Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed to prevent monopolists from gorging themselves on the fat of the land should be used to counter the opposition of American doctors to socialized medicine is extraordinary. Yet the "smart young men" of the Justice Department, in charging the Washington Medical Society with violation of the Sherman Act on grounds of restraint of trade, are doing precisely this in their efforts to prevent the doctors' organization from blackballing members for healing under group auspices...
...speed of the team is represented by such tailbacks as Pete Thompson, Fred Jaretzki, and Squibb, and by such wingbacks as Sherman Hoar, hard tackling and blocking Hurley, and Bill Tully, captain of last year's freshman team on which he played at the pivot position. The remainder of the list is made up by the blocking backs Red Townsend and Bill Tyng...
...Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
...captious might complain that there are no trained seals in the show, but there is everything else. Two or three of the acts are very good: Walter Nilsson cavorting madly on a monocycle, Hal Sherman pantomimes dancing adroitly while looking as awkward as Charlie Chaplin. But most of the acts are very bad: all the skits, a Turkish harem number, a roguish sister act performed by two girls each of whom looks like the other's mother...
...hair, far oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing Ho for Private Enterprise, where one of them groans he is reduced to eating domestic caviar. Between times the show, whose sprightly cast includes Hiram Sherman, Philip Loeb, Rex Ingram, Joey Faye, sings out the news about LaGuardia, European diplomats, liberals, Hollywood, café society...