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Going into its twelfth month this week, a British Broadcasting Corp. program entitled Any Questions? stood among the most popular weekly radio items in England. A program self-described as "serious in intention, light in character," it was originally designed to relieve the Forces from a surfeit of dance bands. Not only the Forces but an audience of about 10,000,000 Britishers now give...
Democrats (Willkie bolters excepted) did not avoid Mr. Roosevelt. He avoided them. His aversion appeared not to be merely an expression of the boredom, impatience, surfeit which he has lately shown toward the professional politicos of his party. Some shrewd observers had it figured out another way: that he had a gloomy conviction that Great Britain was going to be defeated within the next 60 days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds...
...brought to the Plymouth Thursday night, but unfortunately it isn't always clear just what all the shooting is about. Borrowing heavily from "Three Men on a Horse," "You Can't Take It With You," and "Room Service," this moderately amusing screwball farce is hampered by artificial situations, a surfeit of gags, and some uncomfortable let-downs in the last...
...tropical colors had the same psychopathic effect on Farson as well. The South American neuroses of other foreigners were as bad or worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South...
...most of the 200 writers who give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...