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...managing editor of the defunct Chicago Post, swart, husky Michael Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...
...original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...
...glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...