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...immense war effort by the women of France, and the official spokesman for all French women in War II, was not in France last week. She was dined and bedded by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the White House at Washington, D. C. Thence Eve Curie would start her two-month lecture tour of the U. S. - from Kalamazoo to Palo Alto, from Denver to Savannah - on French Women...
...play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts-comedy, drama, romance -and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms...
...pass the President's bills. In London Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs of Anglo-Saxon democracy imitated each other in the same sense that a blotter carries a reverse image of the signature it blots...
...well aware of the fact that April forecasts are foolish, last week on the eve of the widely ballyhooed centennial season, they went ahead predicting how the major-league teams would finish in October. Most weighty predictions came from the baseball writers who had just returned from a two-month training-camp survey of sore arms, batting averages and rookies' temperaments...
...five-month hit in Chicago, the Swing Mikado made the Government $35,000; by May 1, as a two-month sellout on Broadway, it should make the Government $14,000 more. Checks for the profits are not, however, to be forwarded to the Treasury. All Federal Theatre receipts are thrown back into a general pool called "admission funds" to be drawn on for future productions. But money made in one city or region cannot ordinarily be used in another...