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...first consequence of this meeting was somewhat disturbing to the conquerors. In the inevitable amnesia of war, they had forgotten that they were fighting a people. It was easy to consider the German evil when Germany consisted of a tyrant and his tyrannies, of an army in impersonal battle, of bombs and submarines and, at the last, of the final anonvmity - air attack without airmen...
...shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising, unreasonable customs and conventions, he is almost certain to develop a rigid, uncompromising tyrant of a conscience. This fills the ego with feelings of shame . . . and contributes to ... weakness...
...bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...
...Kaufman; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by Max Gordon). Hard on the heels of Memphis Bound (TIME, June 4), which throws a monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
Hayes-B. for "Baby" Wood, the goonboy of the glades, who's another stalwart candidate. Last on our list is our fabled buddie, King Nielsen--tyrant of D-23. His quiet mannerisms perhaps don't match Bill's smoothness or Ted's conversational approach, but "Showers" ain't fur behind...