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...Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through to the final curtain...
...great shock of Russia's invasion of Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made...
Like the Due de Morny, who didn't mind the people as long as they didn't come at him downwind, Biddle and Bullitt have had to learn how to shake hands with the grubby masses without visibly wincing at the thought of a soiled white glove. But long before Joe Kennedy was appointed to London, Bullitt-who in Paris goes everywhere, sees everybody, knows all-had made himself a diplomatic success...
...other threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...
...sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...