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...late Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio) Anderson was a hard man to tap for a free book, according to the current Saturday Review of Literature. Answering the Chicago Historical Society's request for a copy of his novel Marching Men, Rebel Anderson wrote, in 1917: ". . . I am not a popular writer, at least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle...
Since December, District Attorney Miles McDonald had been plugging a Brooklyn grand jury in on some of the hottest party lines of big-time New York gambling. From his wire-tap leads and blitz raids, McDonald served up firsthand evidence that New York City cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from one Brooklyn bookie alone...
...this particular movie the composing team portrayed is Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby of Tin Pan Alley fame. The stars are Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. Astaire provides the usual amount of softshoe and tap dancing at which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...
...Lawrence Ottinger was a somewhat spectacular failure. He had spent 14 years and $100,000 of his father's money on half a dozen promising but luckless business ventures. Now he had a new idea but he was reluctant to tap his father again. So Ottinger borrowed $500 from his mother. With it, he started a small company with a big name: United States Plywood...
...shame the fearful, Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan got out a special report to prove how shortsighted and unnecessary hoarding was. In sugar, for example, the U.S. has on hand 1,200,000 tons, and could tap at any time another 1,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar. Moreover, the beet and cane crops to be harvested in the U.S. this year would reach nearly 2,500,000 tons...