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...show lacks is a usable plot, reasonably funny writing, good direction, and competent acting. Bits here and there lend a professional touch: Two songs, "Love Is a Random Thing" and "A Slight Case of Ecstasy" ought to make the rounds of the dance bands despite their indigestible lyrics. Miss Segal's stage presence and ability to toss off lines shame the rest of the east, although she is given practically nothing clever to say and even less to sing. On a basis of personal attractiveness and or capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma...
...revive the habit of courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most helpful and considerate" clerk. Said Trippett of his plan: "I have 25 girls on my staff and it is certainly keeping-them on their toes...
...takes a man with a diversified course to win possession of the pieces of the puzzle, and to assemble them without guidance is to ask too much of his powers of integration. Browsings in Brattle Street, random windings on Beacon Hill and drives to Concord, Salem, Gloucester, Plymouth and points Capeward, even with the tutorial aid of the Massachusetts Guide Book, will not yield the rounded values which some systematic instruction would give...
Using the latest scientific sampling techniques, The Crimson carefully selected at random 17 Harvard students as they sat relaxed in their classes and asked the following questions...
With meticulous care the list recorded F.D.R.'s modest possession of $133 in cash on the day of his death. Last year's royalties on The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Random House in 1938, amounted to a mere $13.50. Alumnus Roosevelt's $500 investment in the Harvard Club of New York had dwindled in value to $350. Typical debts: $22 for Hyde Park seed, $72 to a British stamp dealer, and $8.88 for newspapers...