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Where The Cradle Will Rock salted its proletarian thesis with genuinely funny satire, No For An Answer lacks wit - al though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No For An Answer | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Clipped by this decision were the wings of more than two score legal eagles, for 41 State Attorney Generals had filed briefs on the company side. And the Court set up a new definition of navigability, to wit: 1) any stream navigable by boats drawing two feet or more is "navigable"; 2) any stream that can be improved into navigability by expenditure of any "reasonable" amount of money is "navigable." The court further held that the authority of the Government over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: WORKING ON THE LEVEE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...real significance of Queen Ann's visit to Harvard, though, lies deep in the hearts of the boys at the studio who think her charm, ready wit, and unassuming manner maker her Harvard's sweetheart. And she loves Harvard "gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURLESQUE QUEEN BARES ALL DURING NETWORK PROGRAM | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

Legg not only jackknifes over eleven barrels but also leaps through a revolving, flaming ring. There is fairy-tale comedy by a family of three Penguins, and the pratt-fall school of wit is upheld by numerous masters of the padded backside. Just when it seems impossible that skating can be any funnier, the Swiss team of Frick & Frack appears and remains in graceful motion while drooping backwards so far that their heads nearly sweep the rink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...review includes everything from the sociology of sex to trained pigs and section men. In dress rehearsal the book, product of the combined wit of Charles H. Stern '41 and Grant Wiprud '41, was catchy and timely. Stern turned out a set of slook and sophisticated lyrics which Wiprud's molodies under the fingers of Wayne Anderson '41 at the piano color and bring out well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex, Swine, Section Men Flit In Funster Follies | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

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