Show Shops and Critics Roar Through New York Theatre Scene
Notes from a fresh visit to City Center capture Billy Rose'sShow Shops Carmen Jones and other productions amid praise and sharp satire. Critics praise St Louis Woman and Moon Pitchit while lampooning political folly abroad especially Franco and Iran. the piece also mocks gambling and Wall Street in sharp social commentary.
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Billy Rose
Carmen Jones
New York
City Center
Bella
Sam Spewack
Thurz
Salaams
George Jean Nathan
St. Louis
Security Council
Spain
Russia
Iran
Franco
York
Wall Street
Radio and Theatre Notes Highlight 1940s Arts and Politics
The piece praises Roosevelt broadcasts as healing voices and notes a Theatre Guild production of O Neill's Strange Interlude with Lynn Fontanne. ABCs Dark Venture is praised for its radio drama writing. Carrol is GOP State Chair amid conservative support while Reece calls himself liberal, sparking debate. Max Lerner criticizes U.S. Franco policy gaining attention.
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FDR
Roosevelt
Paradise
The
Theatre Guild
O'Neill
Lynn Fontanne
ABC
Carrol
GO Party
Repub
Reece
Max Lerner
Franco
There Were Two Pirates and Other Fall Debuts
James Branch Cabell will publish There Were Two Pirates in the fall. A reviewing critic notes a novel by a lady writer includes a clause paying her psychiatrist’s bills as research. Gerald Kersh’s Night and the City is a pungent underworld novel with vivid vignettes.
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Intelligentsia
James Branch Cabell
John K. Hutchens
Gerald Kersh
Larry Allen
Bob Dana
Donot
Eleanor Clark
Doubleday
Norman Anthony
Luce
John Haverstick
Miss Faith
Miss Bishop
Damon Runyon
Nix Vitamin Tablets Advertised by Eckerd's Drug Store
The ad promotes Nix Vitamin Tablets claiming to restore hair color and prevent dyeing. It lists ingredients like calcium pantothenate and Vitamin G and instructs adults age 22 up to take one tablet daily. The copy urges immediate mail order and notes availability at Eckerd's Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belence
National Magazine
Eckerd
The Literary Thief and City Pride Reflections
A magazine editor mocks literary theft and cites quotes from Oliver Goldsmith and others while praising urban growth and reinvestment. The piece blends wry literary snippets with a Jefferson birthday quotation and urges proactive planning for a larger city.
Crack Shot in Chester Shoots Loose Hereford
Gilbert Craig a packing house employee in Chester Pa fired his 30 30 rifle and dropped a runaway hereford steer with one shot after it bolted toward the open countryside.
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Chester
Gilbert Craig
High Point Growth and Skyline On the Rise
A North Carolina observer notes High Point’s ascent with landmarks like the Southern Furniture Exposition building and the Sheraton hotel shaping its hillside profile. The piece reflects on local pride, past arrivals, and the city’s evolving history since 1898 with a resident’s perspective.
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Southern Furniture Exposition
Sheraton
High Point
High Point calls for culture and planning reforms
A High Point builder urges better city planning including YMCA facilities a modern public library and parks. He laments decades of inadequate cultural support noting wealth should fund higher thinking and better public amenities to prevent decay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ruskin
Mammon
High Point
YMCA
Housing blues and dreams of building in High Point
A traveling man laments scarce hotel rooms while a city voice argues for government spending to spur home building. Builders and renters would benefit as opportunities open, with the speaker asserting the venture yields long term dividends and noting blues of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Brooklyn
Land of plains questions a Pullman porter
A Virginia mountains porter aboard a troop train passing through Texas gazes at endless plains and asks who cleared the land if it was not to be used. The line captures a reflective moment amid the vast terrain and wartime travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Mountains
Texas
Textile adviser named for price and production policy
Washington reports Economic Stabilization Director Chester Bowles appointed A Louis Oresman of New York City as advisor on textile production and prices. North Carolina textile interests had urged Dora Helsing ton Samuel Levittes for the post despite endorsements from several members of the state congressional delegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North Carolina
Chester Bowles
A. Louis Oresman
New York City
Dora Helsing Ton Samuel Levittes
Red Bird and Red Thunder Apply for Marriage License
Douglas Red Bird of Dupree South Dakota and Helen Red thunder of Olander Montana filed for a marriage license in Portland Oregon. The clerk noticed the unusual surnames but proceeded with the application.
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Portland
Ore
INS
Douglas Red Bird
Dupree, S. D
Helen Redthunder
Olander, Mont
Understanding expensive GI bill courses for veterans
An article explains how the amended GI bill pays tuition over $500 for a full time course, using Smith the botany student as an example. It covers eligibility weeks, per school year length, and which costs the VA will and will not cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Smith
School of Botany
GI Bill
Women Inmates Abandon 30-Hour Demonstration
Forty five female prisoners in Portage la Prairie Manitoba abandoned a 30 hour protest at the provincial jail after demanding better food. Police failed to break barricades with tear gas as guards watched and inmates shouted we want the attorney general and sang. The three story jail suffered shattered windows and furniture thrown into the yard, with the disturbance beginning at the Sunday night meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portage LA Prairie
Man
Manitoba
Jasper man holds many local posts and a garden hobby
In Jasper Missouri Eli W. Scott, a former railway postal worker, retired four years ago and now acts as practicing attorney, justice of the peace, secretary of the chamber of commerce, secretary of the school board, notary public, estate salesman, and director of the Saturday Art Jamoree while tending his garden on occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper
Eli W. Scott
Justice the Peace
Ber of Commerce
Jaspers
Lady’s stomach gas factory ends with INNER-AID relief
A narrator claims a woman’s bloating gas pains and headaches disappeared after taking INNER-AID. The ad asserts 12 herbs cleanse bowels and ease gas, liver and kidney sluggishness, urging others to try INNER-AID at local drug stores.
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Walter Winchell
Broadway
Monte Christo
London
E. Hillman
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Oliver Goldsmith
Andrew Carnegie
H. Felton
A. Corio
R. Connell
O. Henry
N. Donovan
Anon
H. Jamerson
Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
S.5.s. Co
Scotts
R.J. Scott
Piep Smencs
Marr
Major Thomas M. Nial
Lakewood Park
Atlanta
Richard Sanders
Neal Sanders
Lakewood
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
East
Washington Street
Coke
Coca-Cola
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