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When the President finally allowed him to go home last week, Governor Black was still kept in New Deal harness under a new title???a favorite Roosevelt gesture when letting an important subordinate go. He was made "liaison officer" between bankers and the Administration. Asked if the continuous traveling involved in his new task was not too big an order. Governor Black, now 60, drawled: "Well, I am healthy, young and optimistic...
Racy Huey Parham Long of Louisiana is State Governor and U. S. Senator-elect. Last week New Orleans' Loyola University gave him another simultaneous title??? Honorary Doctor of Laws. Speakers lauded...
...Night in Venice. With this revue the Brothers Shubert administer their customary antidote to city summer and complete a trilogy which was begun in past summers with A Night in Paris and continued with A Night in Spain. Again the Shuberts have felt no great obligation to their chosen title???the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
...much on the move?solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what you want if you buy a book with this title???unencumbered by vast masses of sticky sentiment. And his plots are always astonishingly novel rearrangements of the old counters...
...average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title???for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements are necessary. But nobody says " begorra...