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Money. Rule No. 2 says: Close in the background must be an eminent banker or financier. This gentleman's dollars are as important as his endorsement. Until one is one's party's choice, one must not only be privately financed but prepared to show that one could summon large sums for the party coffers. And no great banker's endorsement, certifying to Business one's soundness as a leader, is worth much if it is unaccompanied by a substantial cash investment. This cash must not be too obvious too early, however...
...historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with the traditional plot to add spectator-interest. The background is supplied by the stuffed figures of Raleigh, Cecil, Bacon. Although the season's first appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done by high school dramatic clubs, best done...
Author Herbert has written a mildly humorous, mildly sentimental, very entertaining book. The Water Gipsies is really a fairy story with a realistic background...
Barbara Kent as the secretary is satisfactory from the standpoint of looks, also acts well enough for the feminine lead in a one-man show. The supporting cast, while naturally in the background, is unusually good...
...month or so the Harvard, daily, the Crimson, has drawn attention by criticism of activities having a patriotic background or purpose. It referred to the American Legion convention in Boston as a brawl. Latter it said that the courses in naval and military science were unworthy of the university and a haven and refuge for dull and lazy students. The young editors are impatient in observation of nationalism and its manifestations...