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Ernest ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...
Legend had encrusted "Old Mac's" career; few knew the man himself. To all but a tiny circle of intimates, he was a crotchety, bitter old man. "suckled in a creed outworn," passionately loyal to the thinking of an era now as dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper...
This rebuttal for Society is itself not without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders...
...others who were up in Canada were Rog Wilson, Mac McNair, Preble Motley, Maclean Griffin, and Winship. Captain Finn Ferner was unable to get that far north, so he skied in Woodstock. Vt., with Del Ames...
...Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves wrote "Bank Dick," he played the lead, and he directed the director. That should be warning enough for anyone not a slapstick fanatic; and even Fields' staunchest fans will long for a goat-in-the-boudoir-of-Mac-West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon...