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...such pressing matters as farm relief, the Boulder Dam project, the naval building program and Muscle Shoals, views are so divergent that action can hardly be taken until later in the session, whenever Congress meets...
There will remain the vexed questions of power rights and the site of a dam to be settled after the division of the water...
...soloist is Richard Dix; the accompanist, Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...
...chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado...
Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...