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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (Repub-lic). A catchpenny musical whirligig cir-cularizing Leo Carrillo, Phil Regan, Ann Dvorak and James Gleason, with bursts of crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
...packjammed assembly room Father Divine was preaching, in his prolix, cir cuitous style, on "The Great Enthusiasm...
...give up, who did not want to return and with always her very gratifying "I shall never forget your kindness" (or words to that effect). It was always very convenient for me to be kind as mine have been invariably considerate of me even under the most trying cir- cumstances and with only normal wages...
...American men will not stand for the violation of their women under any cir cumstances. For this crime they have taken the matter into their own hands repeatedly when they have felt that the law has failed to do justice...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...