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...much a part of the Broadway scene as a ham actor out of work, the flashy International Casino, melting pot of buyers, cooks up a long, elaborate girls-&-gagsters vaudeville. With never a lozenge to cool his throat, Wisecracker Milton Berle (Earl Carroll Vanities) serves as tireless, tedious Master of Ceremonies for such acts as Georgie Tapps's neat dancing, Harry Richman's loud singing, and Caribbean Rapture, a writhing dance to voodoo drums that is the best and warmest of Manhattan's tropical chorus spectacles...
...remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still no winner, the money goes into next week's pot. Biggest jackpot thus far, a three-weeker...
...Gaya, India, when a Moslem housewife heaved a pot of cooked beef at her husband, the gobbets hit a Hindu girl passing beneath the window. Result: a street riot (beef is sacred to Hindus), six killed, 75 injured...
...shell to issue warnings against getting too cozy with the Nazis or to growl about the decadence of his own aristocratic class. Hopeless and outmoded as most of the surviving diplomatic bigwigs of the '205, the crusty Count is convinced that his country is going to pot: "It is much to be feared that Bolshevistic ideology will again strike root in the nation. ... At present I feel that any part I might play in politics would be tilting at windmills...
...half of 1939 is expected to see Public Works expenditure decline from its 1938 volume of $880,000,000, offsetting by so much increased armament expenditures. If President Roosevelt decides to balance the budget for the 1940 elections the Government may actually put less money into the public economic pot after the rise in National Defense expenditures than before...