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...first 4,000 homing servicemen to disembark at Halifax had complaints aplenty. They had been jampacked in the troop ship Louis Pasteur, had had only two meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
Died. William Kennon ("Hello World") Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
Perhaps the most destructive source of all to the tragic element of the play is the diction of several of the players. Blanche Yurka and Bert Lytell, as the hero's parents, are adequate in poorly-constructed roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around...
...Coach Bert Haines' eight will be stroked by Roger A. Pellaton'47, who will match oars with co-captains Dorothy and Jane Driscoll, twin sisters who row seven and stroke, respectively, for the annex. Advance reports say the half-mile race will be 1945's best-attended regatta...