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...started by General Hugh S. Johnson. Having written the Blue Eagle's biography for the Saturday Evening Post, he was now about to launch his own in Redbook Magazine, which more than 20 years ago printed stories by Lieut. Hugh Johnson entitled "The Suffragette Sergeant" and "Fate's Fandango." As a send-off for the series, Redbook gave Autobiographer Johnson a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The General paid for his meal with a speech...
...most part pessimism is the order of the day. A female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre as the sole work of Louis Bromfield who has lately been making a desperate assault...
Though written in modern and, at times, colloquial speech, Panic follows the tested tradition of Greek tragedy in portraying the destruction of a hero by the modern equivalent of the Greek conception of Fate, the conception of inevitable economic collapse. The play is not divided into acts but shows scenes alternating between a banker's office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic...
...failing banks singlehanded. His mistress lone comes to fetch him away from the life-&-death struggle, which to her is just another hard day at the office. When he learns that his most trusted associate has shot himself, McGafferty throws up the sponge, goes to meet his own fate...
...Author MacLeish's tone or his implications; neither will radicals. Between the Yes & No of Communism and Capitalism he preserves a catalytic neutrality. Neither McGafferty nor the angry unemployed speak for their author, who saves his thunder for the last line, shouted by the chorus: "Man's fate is a drum...