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This huge vaudeville is a richer and stranger mixture than the late B. F. Keith ever devised. High sentiments are compounded with Harpo Marx's ogling of the girls. No sooner has Ray Bolger done some hilarious hoofing than hard-working Gracie Fields sings Albert Hay Malotte's soulful version of The Lord's Prayer. No sooner has Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating...
...capital, where he imperially rents half of a three-room apartment from its attractive occupant. Jean Arthur. He obviously considers himself old enough to be her mother, and thus overrides her misgivings. Behind her back, he then proceeds to sub-sublet half of his half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws off the Government bore while McCrea gets to work with...
Service. In Manhattan, a stranger fresh from Scotland asked a ticket agent if he knew her son, Jim Smith, who she thought worked for some telegraph com pany either in New York or Chicago ; the ticket agent took a chance, phoned a local telegraph office; the phone was answered by the right Jim Smith...
Pacific Huts, Inc. sounds like a strange sort of corporation. It is even stranger than it sounds. Less than a year ago it was not even a name; now its 500 Seattle employes turn out one prefabricated wooden igloo every 15 minutes for U.S. troops in Alaska, and its gross volume runs up to $6,000,000 a year. The 4½-ton Pacific huts are rainproof, stormproof, termite-proof, fungus-proof, even proof against cold...
...innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head of the United Nations news bureau. "That's interesting," said Paynter...