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Sophie Tucker, last of the Red-Hot Mamas (see cut), emitted great waves of sexagenarian heat at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. A 179-lb. wraith of her former self, she wowed her audience with numbers from Some of These Days (which she introduced in 1909) to Mairzy Doats, rocked the club with a doubly meaningful closing act called "Dr. Tucker's Remedy." Said Miss Tucker: "Oldtime circuit vaudeville will never come back, but my show is the same as it has always been; favorites last. Everyone, everyone is so friendly, and as for my friend," she gestured across...
...scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned for the old New Deal of NRA. He lambasted "my friend Franklin Roosevelt." From time to time he saw things with an amazingly discerning eye. From time to time he lost himself in strange clouds, wandered, a bitter wraith, among his own uncertainties. He was "Old Ironpants." He had a spell of isolationism. In April 1941, when the President declined to renew his commission as an Army reserve officer, he wrote back lugubriously: "I am sure you don't like me any more...
...have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...
...Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris for one of its best bassos, Ezio Pinza. Though Pinza was longer on voice than Chaliapin, and equal to him in build and makeup, critics agreed that...
That disposed of a contingency which no one had considered imminent, but in another breath the Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA gave another wraith of gossip the substance of a possibility. How, asked interviewers, about his running for mayor of Chicago? "That," said Mr. Ickes, "is my conception of a good idea...