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...like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot: Mae West's Indian retainer firing off blank cartridges to scare her jockey into winning a horse race at Buenos Aires...
...play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...
...dead patient's heart beat again. An injection of adrenalin or a tickle with the electrical pacemaker may do the trick. Or, if the patient is on the operating table with his abdomen or chest open, the surgeon may massage the heart into motion. Nonethe-less this stale medical story still looks like news and is printed, often on front pages a dozen times a year for the bench of those who cannot remember what they read...
Humblest passer-by is Alan Squier (Leslie Howard, taking temporary leave of the cinema to keep from "going stale") A young intellectual tired of it all, he makes complete arrangements with Duke Mantee to "put the slug on him" so that the Maples' daughter Gabrielle (pert Peggy Conklin of The Pursuit of Happiness) can collect his insurance and go to France...
Josef Stalin had brought the corpse of Dear Friend Sergei personally from Leningrad on a special train, its engine decorated with a huge "STALIN." After lying in stale in Moscow's onetime Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...