Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...motored past City Hall, past signs, "Welcome Champ," "Roosevelt For a 3rd, 4th, 5th Term," past thousands of faces that know Roosevelt and light up when he passes. "If there's any anti-third term sentiment in America, it isn't in the faces of the crowds," said Correspondent Alfred Stedman of the anti-Roosevelt St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...that as it may, right now Goodman isn't receiving half the credit he deserves. You must remember that when he organized his band in 1935, the kind of arrangements he played constituted something entirely new in jazz. Even Fletcher Henderson's great band never had the ensemble precision and bite that you heard on the old Goodman records. Fletcher, it's true, arranged most of the stuff that Benny played, but Benny and his musicians deserve the credit for doing proper justice to those arrangements, which would be worthless if played by an inferior band...
...dainty waltzes and then reprises for the rest of the evening. There is no novelty tune, nor anything that is even moderately good jazz, and by the third act you will offer your kingdom for a song. The book combines one dull situation with another. It just isn't fair to ask Marguerite Namara, Helen Gleason and John Lodge to submit to such treatment...
...Hired Wife" is cute. It isn't significant. It isn't even anti-Nazi. In fact, as far as it's concerned, the world will lounge in stream-lined easy-chairs casually sipping high-balls till the Millennium. To see it on the same bill with the news-reels and a raving, screaming, hair-tearing March of Time is quite refreshing. If the end of the world is imminent, if Willkie and Roosevelt aren't both elected, if England and Germany don't both win, it won't do anyone any barm to have a good laugh before Judgment...
Here Miss Hughes is speaking much truth. No one can get much humor from Sir Toby Belch's pun on "points" if he isn't aware that points in Queen Elizabeth's day were of vital importance in connecting one's pants to one's suspenders. In fact, I fail to see how an audience can enjoy Shakespeare at all, especially his comedy, if it hasn't given the play a good once-over ahead of time. Not that Shakespeare is "deep" or needs unravelling. But it only stands to reason that an author who draws on such a wide...