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...Brady). Opening its eyes later than any theatrical season in a generation, 1938-39 otherwise clung to tradition, woke up with a bad taste in its mouth. Come Across is a tissue-paper "comedy-drama" offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little boy. Act I is mostly comedy, which consists of stating a few jokes and then elaborately developing...
...throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been any scalping, will at least have been rewarded by a full quota of parades, whiskey drinking, bagpipe music, sword dancing, gunplay in the palace courtyard and fine, old-fashioned British slang...
Died. John Van Alstyn Weaver, 44, literary journeyman and husband of Actress Peggy Wood; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs. In 1921, having taken exception to an observation in H. L. Mencken's American Language that nothing serious could be written in slang, he published a book of poems (In American), at Mencken's suggestion, to disprove...
...emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over to descriptions of the red-light districts, skid roads and loggers' saloons that have flourished from Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between...
...months, in corridors and cloakrooms, at cocktail parties and committee hearings, Washington has been talking about three "baskets." These "baskets" were neither wicker containers nor scoring points in a game but Congressional slang for different sections of the new tax bill-each basket being designed to> catch a certain type of taxpayer. Most discussed has been the "third basket," for it carried the largest load of a pet Administration theory-the tax on undistributed profits...