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...Your Toes (words & music by George Abbott, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers ; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is an historic show. Like The Little Show (1929), Music in the Air (1932), As Thou sands Cheer (1933), it stands as a definite milestone in the U. S. musical theatre. Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded. Such was the appraisal of the most gilded first-night audience of the 1935-36 theatrical season - a collection ranging from handsome Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald to Hoofer Eleanor Powell-which roared...
...with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment and reconditioned make-up make her virtually indistinguishable from Carole Lombard. The small blue eyes which Na ture gave her have been photographed with magenta lighting so as to look big and brown. The picture is paced in a fashion that makes the sensational crook melo dramas of last year seem as sedate as Whistler's Mother. Its talk is spoken so fast and cut so close...
...Both grandfathers of Rudyard Kipling were uncompromising Wesleyan ministers, monoliths of character and force. In the grandson their virile strains appeared to converge and explode with a vehemence scarcely to be expected in the son of useful, but far from remarkable, Mr. John Lockwood Kipling, Professor of Architectural Sculp ture and for many years a museum curator in Bombay...
Virtually every editor who blazed away at his confreres cited the Englewood pic-ture-taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks...
...Early American History) would be inaugurated in June as Union's 12th president. Union, founded in 1795 as the first non- sectarian college in the U. S., is currently excited about its new Plan of Education, which split its 18 departments into four autonomous divisions: languages & litera ture, social studies, mathematics & science engineering...