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Yesterday, Bill Cunningham, sports seer of the Boston Post, using levy-League football as a spring board, took a flying swan dive into a deeper problem. His query: "What's happened to youth?" His answer: they've lost "not only physical energy but ... moral courage." As representative of the current younger-generation-is-going-to-the-dogs school of thought, that answer is a challenge...
...Grand Illusion or La Kermesse Héroique, Daybreak, perhaps the last major product of a cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual disenchantment that make most Hollywood pictures by comparison seem, for better or for worse, not quite grownup...
...thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic novel, After Many a Slimmer Dies The Swan (TIME...
Resurrected for what he called his swan song was Republican Ancient (74) Charles Gates ("Charlie") Dawes, first director of the Budget. He declared his belief that the public debt soars because Government departments are putting one over on Franklin Roosevelt; that if the next President would make his department heads swear fealty to the idea of budget balancing, and if a "coordinating control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women...
...Headed Woman) and her second husband, Broker Hubert Charles Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made...