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...which is now playing, its fourth week at Keith's Memorial, shows maestro Fred Astaire once again flinging his hoofs about with wild and graceful abandon. Unlike "Roberts," "Top Hat" is not a fashion parade, but concerns itself with a typical Fred Astaire pursult of a coy and suspicious Ginger Rogers, in the style of the "Gay Divorces...
...This matter was handled in the regular course of business as a private transaction with Ethiopia, but without consultation with any other government. . . . Today . . . after conference with the Secretary of State [I] have decided to advise the Ethiopian Government of our intention to abandon the concession...
...Dictator was invited by his plan priesthood to choose between three alternatives: 1) Abandon the metropolis altogether, establishing Russia's capital elsewhere and enshrining the more picturesque parts of Moscow as a permanent "Museum City." 2) Destroy the present city of Moscow and build a modernistic capital on its site. 3) Preserve the tall-towered Kremlin and fantastic St. Basil's Cathedral, but destroy the whole encircling rabbit warren of crooked streets; enlarge the vast Red Square to twice its present size, and generally turn Moscow into a city of wide boulevards, imposing squares and grandiose parks...
...gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered at all times with expensive furs or drygoods...
Judged Architect Wright: "It would be cheaper to abandon...