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...current offering at the Pilgrim goes a long way towards disproving the movie industry's latest promotion poster (to wit: Movies Are Better Than Ever). Rupert is, of all things, a squirrel; the picture is the latest vehicle for Jimmy Durante...
Rupert is undoubtedly the cleverest squirrel in captivity; unfortunately the movie is not good Durante humor. The Great Proboscis, forced to share top billing with the damn squirrel, has been given only a few really funny lines and he never goes into one of the long stories which are his specialty. Durante does, however, perform at the piano a couple of times...
...taken in 1790 (there were 3,929,214 people in the country not counting Indians), the U.S. had reacted to the process as enthusiastically as a growing boy getting his height chalked up on the kitchen wall. Over the years a few census takers had been pinked by squirrel guns or heaved down long flights of stairs, but the percentage of objectors was unbelievably small-in 1940 the Government did not find it necessary to prosecute one census evader. As the 1950 census taking began last week, the country smirked as happily and self-consciously as ever...
...remembered the $4,000, he never mentioned it publicly. But recently some of his old enemies and admirers did. Irvin Hurst, ex-reporter on the Oklahoma City Times, which had fought Alfalfa Bill bitterly when he was governor, got together with some of the capital's citizens. The Squirrel Rifles was mobilized again. It was a joke, but once again a joke with a point. Commissions in the brigade were offered for a price: $10 for colonelcy, $5 for a majority. Over $1,000 had been collected by this week...
...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...