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...Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
This final slap was administered by the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. at its 27th annual meeting. Turning its back on the Appeasement and the Administration (as the Administration has turned its back on the Chamber since 1934), the Chamber made a direct appeal to Congress for things that the New Deal won't give. It got no less than 300 Congressmen to come to its various dinners to hear a verbal barrage against That Man in the White House and all his works...
...line of treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration...
...Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
Italy. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, said Adolf Hitler, are strong enough to resist any coalition against them. In a direct slap at France he added that "If war is waged against Italy for any reason whatever it will see Germany and Italy side by side. . . . Nazi Germany knows what her fate would be if the international powers succeeded in defeating Italy. . . . Those who belittle the Italian Army were refuted by the Ethiopian campaign...