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...hysterical historical" sketches begin with George Washington discussing a radio broadcast about to be made by Martha, whom he keeps calling Eleanor. The opening of Annapolis serves as a background for a performing chow dog named Red Dust which comes in draped around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley...
...Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights and potent amplifiers. In the background were the majestic twin oaks, so valued sentimentally that they-are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off old-age sickness...
Caryl Parker Haskins 2G,--a special Danto Prize of $59 for an essay entitled "The Religious Background of the Divine Comedy...
...newshawks were back in the President's office where they found the stage all set for an extraordinary performance. At one side of his desk were stacked about 20 selected telegrams; at the other lay an open copy of the Supreme Court's decision. In the background sat Mrs. Roosevelt, knitting a blue sock. Another chair behind the President was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson who arrived ten minutes after the show started. Circulating among the correspondents was Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, old, wise, grumpy...
...study the cinema, try to improve its morals. Last spring, after publishing the results of its studies in nine volumes, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont president to replace Harvard's aging A. Lawrence Lowell, announced that it would try to make active use of its enormous background of information in actually improving the cinema. Last week the Motion Picture Research Council bestirred itself again and 1) elected Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, long, lean, pouch-eyed President of Stanford University and one-time (1929-33) Secretary of the Interior, president to replace Mrs. Belmont who resigned last June...