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PARADISE (Waring's Penns) -GRIEVING (Whiteman). The last has an interesting subdued vocal refrain...
...stops being an excited Jackson Jones. Altogether Billie is excellent entertainment, clean without being inane. It is to be regretted that, in his effort to slight none of the great U. S. ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal...
...Sept. 17). It was mean. It was poisonous. It was unworthy of the Nominee it helped. But it persisted and the Warrior's friends grew wroth. Chairman Work of Hooverism disowned the Whispers. But Chairman Work, perhaps forgetting President Roosevelt's historic misunderstoodness about liquor, could not refrain from adding: "Why is it necessary for a man's friends to deny that he is intoxicated...
Luckee Girl. Having borrowed their title from a well-known article of feminine apparel and the refrain of their best song ("Come On Let's Make Whoopee") from the works of a well-known drama critic (Walter Winchell, who, on the ground of an antique enmity, was denied entrance to the premiere), the Brothers Shubert were content to borrow the rest of their second musical production of the week from a thousand previous productions of the same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses...
Last week, to stop the cry, Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal, acting in the absence of Commissioner James M. Doran, announced that Federal enforcement officers everywhere had been cautioned to refrain from spectacular raids which might in any way be thought politically motivated. This announcement came only a day or two after Nominee Hoover's return to Washington...