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...with the proper warmth. Jack Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...
Nothing succeeds quite like a Broadway success; but when playwrights really clean up it is by selling their smash hits to Hollywood. In 1939 Hollywood paid almost $1,000,000 for 17 Broadway plays. In the first two months of 1940 it paid about half that for five. But though plays are selling faster and for generally higher prices this year than last, most of Broadway's fanciest merchandise is still on the counter...
...night of the Sam Jones victory parade, Governor Long left turbulent Baton Rouge, drove to New Orleans, where the Long machine had won. He went to the Jung Hotel, kept his room number secret. His armed bodyguard threatened to smash the camera of any photographer who tried to photograph him. After two days of seclusion, newspapermen got to him, asked for a statement. "I don't owe the newspapers a God damned thing," said Louisiana's bitter, beaten Governor...
...Workers of all lands, unite to smash the rule of English capitalism!" He also urged: "You young, upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon, who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world...
...doubtful logic of this statement he now supports by stressing that he is opposed only to certain vicious practices of Catholics, and not to their religion as a whole. Yet actually he went on, identifying a part with the whole, playing upon prejudices, and building an organization to smash all Catholics...