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...last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold...
...metres of cloth woven in seven Moscow mills which once belonged to Tsarist Millionaire Morozov, over 7,000,000 metres have had to be discarded as "spoiled and useless...
Rough crepe is an old silk product but the demand for it has always been nominal. All crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...
...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...