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...enlarged membership of the club this year has enabled them to make several changes in the programs which will give them a more varied character. The Gold Coast Orchestra will become less of the "dance band" on the stage and will play several arrangements in a symphonic vein. Their selections will include two medleys, one of Victory Herbert and the other of Jerome Kern from the "Show Boat." Their other numbers will include "The Black and Tan Fantasy," "Mood Indigo," and "Sweet Sue." Under the leadership of J. L. Hutter '33 the club has become a more integrated unit...
...Harvard Instrumental Clubs will present their first concert of this season on next Friday evening at Roxbury Latin School. The program will be in a light vein, comprising semi-classics, marches, spirituals, and popular jazz pieces...
...shrewd, paternal President Jesse Isidor Straus. Kenneth Collins' friends say he wanted to be a millionaire by 1936, that Jesse Straus promised to make him one (in Macy stock) if only he would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart-to-be-thrifty advertisements back in 1927, Macy sales have jumped 40% to $100,000,000 annually. He made the notions department appeal to "firemen, housewives, bachelors and babies." Evening wraps were offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME...
...fist-smashing denunciations of bigotry and Ku-Kluxery, a long tirade against that almost forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely against the Republican wet-&-dry one, left the way open for Governor Roosevelt, at Baltimore, to carry...
...much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...