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...ambition to be the first woman elected to the Senate. Senator-elect Lewis, ever the begloved, bewhiskered, bowing gallant, had made a Wet, witty campaign against Mark Hanna's Prohibition-weasling daughter. He had convulsed his audiences with mock embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even the effort of Chicago's Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson to swing the city's Negro vote to him had not hurt...
Musical-EARL CARROLL VANITIES (dirty), FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GARRICK GAIETIES (youthful), GIRL CRAZY (Gershwin Music), PRINCESS CHARMING (Jeanne Aubert), THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW (pleasant), THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Clifton Webb, Fred Allen...
...official prison messages. Loeb was put to work again for an unnamed offense. Twice Leo- pold has been placed in solitary confine ment for cooking in his cell. Other times he has worked in the chair factory. Last summer Leopold & Loeb were viewed in their jail by Libby Holman, famed hot-song singer. She knew "Dicky" Loeb in childhood, at a Michigan summer resort. He recognized her and, not allowed to speak, winked...
Three's A Crowd has for its principals the triple-threat team of last year's Little Show: nimble, spindle-shanked, emaciated Clifton Webb; droll, ready-voiced Fred Allen; mellifluous, primordial Libby Holman So excellent is the work of these three performers that the framework of the show seems almost negligible. Best scenes of the headliners...
...Libby Holman, backed up against a black velvet drop, performing economical, graceful gestures with her fingers, ably ululating an English importation called "Body & Soul." Rear-Admiral Fred Allen, attired in Antarctic haberdashery, lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works...