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Bulk of the torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...
...Office experts were complaining: "The Chancellor has apparently no need of our advice. We have never had such a vacation. Everything is between them." The two days passed in a bedlam of parades and pageantry as Venice gradually learned to shout "Viva Hitler!" By night there were fireworks and torch-lighted gondola parades, but again and again those two-man talks in German. Baffled correspondents were reduced to cooking up tales that Hitler and Mussolini were playing a game of vanity in keeping each other waiting at their public appearances. These stories started when Der Führer left...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...issue of the magazine has appeared since. What their subscribers must think at this late date one does not care to conjecture, yet their defalcation has had a more serious effect than the quenching of but another torch of culture. In the field of Harvard publication, there is definite place for a fourth magazine. It should cover controversial topics of a sociological, political nature, collegiate and national, in a hard-hitting, strikingly readable style, somewhat in the manner of the New Republic or The Nation. It should not squabble in the abstract, rummage in the antique. It should be backed...
Authentic scenery and production methods of the eighteenth century are reproduced. Footlights are lighted by torch and all the scene changes are made (in full view of the audience) by consumed stage hands...