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Thus last week the two Nominees for the Presidency passed, one on his way to the White House, the other headed in the opposite direction. One train was as gay as a showboat, full of confident political advisers, competent secretaries, pretty young women and Franklin Delano Roosevelt setting everyone a merry pace. The other train, by comparison, was grim and dour, filled with advisers troubled about where the money was coming from, aides worrying over campaign details that went askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon...
...From a showboat at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland one night last week the three presidents of the country's three biggest steel companies successively addressed the nation. Studiously they avoided any reference to the subject uppermost in their minds-the coming battle over unionization of the steel industry...
Maxwell House Showboat is noteworthy in the new season's radio alignment chiefly because, beginning next fortnight, it will be playing on N. B. C. "op-posite" the redoubtable Major Edward Bowes, still Radio's No. i attraction with his famed Amateur Night.- Under the sponsorship of Walter P. Chrysler (TlME, June 22), Major Bowes will move his show from Sunday to Thursday nights, from N. B. C. to C. B. S. There the bland master of ceremonies of the amateur hour will compete for listeners with a "Show-boat" captained by Yale's Singer Lancelot ("Lanny...
...Congressional Record. The nature or author of the remarks is immaterial. By law, the Record or any part thereof may be mailed under frank, an economy exploited for years by campaigning Democrats and Republicans alike.-ED. Credit to Mescall Sirs: FLATTERING COMMENTS ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF UNIVERSAL'S SHOWBOAT [TIME, MAY 18] SHOULD...
...acting on the whole is indifferent, with the exception of the performance of Charles Winninger, of Maxwell House Coffee fame, as Captain Andy Hawks. The role is not a particularly masterful one, but Winninger makes a sympathetic wise, and humorously appealing figure out of the old Showboat captain. Irene Dunne as Magnolia, and Allan Jones as Ravenal, make a good team; Miss Dunne makes a not-too-successfull appearance in black-face, about which the less said the better: Miss Dunne is not a comedienne...