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...flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter's President Carl Christian Hein told the Savannah convention of two obstacles to a merger. The American Lutherans have always forbidden their members to join lodges, particularly Masonic ones; and they do not care for the indiscriminate fellowship...
Legally a man may marry only one woman but a corporation may marry as many other corporations as it can woo and win. The procedure in both cases is the same?soft words, moonlight, tentative kisses, polite talk of money. Last week the automobile industry knew that a number of companies were out holding hands in the moonlight but whether it was just a casual flirtation or a real engagement which would end in corporate wedlock no one could yet be sure...
...School for Husbands (by Jean Bkaptiste Poquelin [Moliére]; Theatre Guild, producer). Of the Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
...hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame the boy for the gunmen's jailbreak, 4) to disguise the fact that he is the sinister "Blight," the power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people's friend, a middle-aged keeper in the Tombs...
Well aware that silk could make a permanent comeback only by regaining its market, spry Gosuke Imai as president of the Japan Filatures Association decided to forget his years, to woo America in the name of silk. With seven fellow ambassadors he landed at San Francisco four weeks ago. All were clad from head to foot in silk-silk suits, silk shirts, silk shorts, silk socks, silk everything save shoes. Their chief object was to persuade U. S. males to wear suits of heavy silk, rlbbed weaves, diagonals, failles (which at present prices could be made...