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...Tree (by Richard Maibaum; Ira Marion, producer). Ed and Denny and Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...
...Went into secret session to hear anonymous charges against Ira M. Ornburn, nominated to be a member of the Tariff Commission; confirmed...
...season. There is good reason for it to be. The book is a product of wry George S. Kaufman (Once in a Lifetime }. The music, which rises at times to the antiphonal absurdity which he first provided for Strike Up the Band, is by gifted George Gershwin. Brother Ira, who with Brother George recently made an excursion into the cinema (see p. 19), has packed the lyrics full of foolishness and funny rhymes. Handsome William Gaxton and Lois Moran of the films, looking but not dancing like Marilyn Miller, carry the burden of the story on cheerful shoulders...
...Appointed by the President to the Tariff Commission was Democrat Ira N. Ornburn, Connecticut cigarmaker and union labor leader...
...Ira I. Kaplan was more cheerful than usual last week as he strode from room to room in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, smiling at patients and fussing with x-ray machines. He had just received word of a European loan. Next month will arrive a $280,000 package addressed to him. Stripped of its wrappings it will weigh exactly four grams-about as much as a new U. S. penny-and it will make Dr. Kaplan guardian of more radium than anybody else in the Western Hemisphere. Of the 100 grams in the U. S. & Canada, 40 grams will...