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Bill Green became president as hard times were falling on the A.F.L. Labor had been roundly defeated in the strikes after World War I, and the gay '20s were far from gay in the nation's labor temples. Membership was dwindling-by the depression year of 1933, it descended to a low of 2,126,796. Green, the man of peace, innocently set out to solve his problems by attempting to establish a liaison with industry, to sell organized labor as a sort of super employment agency which would do away with strikes and friction...
...first native son and first alumnus ever elected president of the university. He has spent 37 of his 56 years on the campus, 17 as president. Bluff and extraverted, he personifies the confidence and optimism, the booming voice and outsized gesture, that marked California of the '20s. A large man (6 ft., 200 lbs.), he diets and exercises to keep trim...
...would never have a radio show of his own. Why should he bother? The Technicolor movie based on his life (Columbia's The Jolson Story) was wowing the box office. His records were selling better than they had at the height of his first career in the '20s. And he could get all the radio work he needed as a guest star...
...years, Chippie had changed some, but not her voice. It was still brash and undisciplined, often nasally unmusical and handicapped by careless phrasing. But at her unpredictable best, Chippie handled the blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
...very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...