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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suavely the Mayor replied: "I'll tell you boys nobody is more in sympathy with you than the Mayor and Council of Reading. We're no novices. We know what Capitalism does to the workers and hope that Capitalism will be overthrown. . . . We've kept men on we'd ordinarily lay off. I've organized Unemployment relief and it's doing a darned good job. But . . . you don't know the law, that's all. How can we tax the rich? If I could, I would. . . . Show me a starving worker...
Typical was an incident in a Loop theatre last week. The Mayor boomed out his usual nonsensical speech, twirled his halter, cried: "I wear no man's halter around my neck but thank God, I've got one real friend in the newspaper business. He's a Democrat and his name is William Randolph Hearst."* Up rose a heckler to shout: "And he's got his halter around your neck, you lying skunk, Bill Thomp son." Eggs began to splatter over the stage...
Packed like honey in a hive are the sweet, nostalgic tunes of Messrs. Rodgers & Hart. Made to order for the grey tea-dance hour are: "I've Got $5" and "We'll Be The Same." All in all, America's Sweetheart is an uncommonly good musical show...
...Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement not a few were trampled...
Finn and Hattie (Paramount). This is a loose improvisation based on some incidents in Donald Ogden Stewart's Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface...