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...first suicide attack I saw was last winter, against a ship from which I had recently been detached. I had the excruciating experience of watching a flaming furnace which contained many of my friends. Seven Jap planes got through the fighter screen. Six were shot down, but the seventh crashed my old ship. It poured a column of smoke 300 feet high. Through the black an occasional explosion pitched roaring flames...
...Mention Opera. Hammerstein was born 49 years ago into a great theatrical tribe. His father, William, produced vaudeville; his Uncle Arthur produced musicals; his cousin Elaine became a screen star in silent days. But it was his grandfather, bearded, cigar-mauling, top-hatted Oscar I, the most spectacular impresario of his time, who made the name Hammerstein a near-synonym for Broadway. Oscar I was said to have occupied more newspaper space during his heyday than any other American except Theodore Roosevelt. A reckless and rambunctious man, Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera...
...author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play for the legitimate...
...lecture on Thursday will consist of a discussion of the problems involved in transition from novel to the screen...
...time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits to Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva PioUs. very cute in her screen debut), to Jack Benny, and to a gay-nineties cafe where Allen joins in expensive quartetting with Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee, and Victor Moore...