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...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...Little '18 looks for no single quality, other than reasonable academic competence, when reviewing applications. He seeks a balanced group, able to contribute to the life of the House "in its broadest aspects," rather than a "type." The number of high school men slightly exceeds the number from prop schools...
Despite Actress Powell's willing energy, Astaire's best dancing partner turns out to be a clothes tree. Picking it up as a rehearsal prop, he uses it to create a little masterpiece of grace, timing and inventiveness. He scores again in two other numbers that take imaginative advantage of the screen's technical magic. In one, he hoofs all over a room's ceiling and walls; in the other, he and Partner Powell work the lurching of an ocean liner into their shipboard act. Their best number together, matching the show-stopping caliber of Astaire...
Bighearted John. Most of the invalids managed somehow to totter into the St. Louis federal building and prop themselves up before a battery of television cameras to talk a little bit about gambling in the St. Louis area. As they arrived, it quickly became evident that all of them were also suffering from a companion disease which one curbstone diagnostician described as Kefauveritis-"characterized by a clammy feeling, excessive perspiration, forgetfulness, a sinking sensation in the stomach and inability to utter more than a few inaudible sounds...
...lumped under that handy misnomer, the Jazz Age. After Fitzgerald's death in Hollywood in 1940, the legend persisted, but with an important addition: the charming playboy was mourned as a great writer who had tragically dissipated his talent. To some intellectuals, the Fitzgerald story seemed the perfect prop to bolster a shaky thesis: that the U.S. is culturally too anemic to nourish its good writers. By implication, Fitzgerald's dipsomaniacal botch of his life derived from and was part of the national botch...