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Best of three lively character parts with which the authors have enlivened the play is taken by little Porter Hall (The Warrior's Husband). Cast as a very domesticated New York detective, his manner while describing the routine horrors of a policeman's life is excruciatingly bland. "Well," he confesses to the actress's family, "we aren't much worried about this case. We don't care if one crook murders another crook- especially if they are out of town crooks." He does something for the actress her doctor could not do. He releases...
...been busy preparing a section of the first eleven floors of the 70-story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom...
...Chicago's teachers; he could point, perhaps, to the Cambridge school board, which is unfortunately typical, and which has been styled, with too much kindness, "a spring board into state politics. He would be tempted to describe the whole system of second-rate normal schools, harassed dummy superintendents, and bland favoritism, as Dean Holmes described it--"pedagogical racketeering...
...many monarchs can take a revolution with the bland aplomb of Siam's spunky little King Prajadhipok who, hav-ng been through three in the past two years, last week faced his fourth...
...said Senator Reed, "other cases in which this arbitrary removal has been called into action in Pennsylvania." And there are, although Senator Reed did not mention them, numerous cases in other states, as, for example, the postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion, if not to the honor, at least to the glory, of the Democratic party. There is in further background the Portland postmaster of happy memory, whose protest against Lord Woodrow and demand for back salary piqued the Supreme Court into its historic rumble that the power...