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...Colonel William Franklin Knox stands for the war effort in a very particular way. A grand old soldier and dilettante sailor, patriotic American and courageous shouter, competent executive and tyro at strategy, a die-hard Republican who entered the Cabinet for a show of unity in the dark days after the fall of France, Knox is a symbol of the confusion, amateurism, divided authority, the lack of broad planning-and also of the good will -that characterized Washington last week...
...evangelists find their circles narrowing, embracing smaller & smaller towns. Yet they keep on the job. Next month, with the evangelical season about over, most of them will congregate in Winona Lake, Ind. for their annual meeting. Lou Hill will be there. No shouter, no chair-smasher, he has considerable reputation. On the Winona Lake platform he will pinch-hit for the most famed evangelist of them all, old-time Billy Sunday...
...dressed by Charles LeMaire, the production starts off with a musical satire on the Empire State Building. Point of the jibe is that the skyscraper has insufficient sanitary facilities: "There are three on every floor; there should have been four." Following this scatalog in quick succession come shapely Song-Shouter Ethel Merman (née Zimmerman) who was in Girl-Crazy, funny Willie & Eugene Howard (Willie is also late of Girl Crazy), a splendid dancer named Ray Bolger who has weak knees, sure feet. There is also Everett Marshall, who has brought his fine voice up the street from the Metropolitan...
...adjournment of Congress last March has been a chorus of shouts for him to DO SOMETHING about Depression. The American Legion petitioned him to call a non-political White House conference of Business & Industry. Insurgent Republican legislators insisted that only a special session of Congress would do. Chief shouter for such a session has been Wisconsin's persistent young Senator La Follette. Memorials from religious societies have also poured in upon the White House requesting the President to summon the Senate to ratify the World Court protocol. Last week President Hoover answered all shouters with the following statement, read...
...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...