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...should vote for 'em." There were wisecracks of course, typically Yankee-about the "red tape" of registration, the "propaganda" in the little bulletin of instructions given to each man, about the message by Franklin Roosevelt on the first page of the bulletin-"Holy smoke, Joe, can ya imagine that! President Roosevelt hisself writing me a personal letter of gratitude and appreciation. Hurry up and sign your X so you can be on the roll of honor too!" Funniest registrant was a happy-go-lucky darky who was stumped by the requirement to name a person who would always know...
...Cover) The Rodgers & Hart-John O'Hara musicomedy Pal Joey had most of its lyrics and all its tunes written last week; Cabin In the Sky was ready to open this week; Hi' Ya Gentlemen was about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized...
...regretfully of U. S. hostility to Japanese aims, of continued pressure culminating in last week's embargo of scrap iron. Japan is still not abandoning hope of improving relations with the U. S., said the Foreign Office's Spokesman No. 1, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, swart, squat Ya-kichiro Suma...
Twenty years ago the U. S. deliberately turned its back on a world made safe for Democracy, elected Ohio's Warren Gamaliel Harding President, sang How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm and swore by the Founding Fathers: never again...
...Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including the Ag'ya, a Martinique fighting dance which she put on at Chicago's Federal Theatre two years...