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Show Boston Letter To j Cache American j By F.R-A. j " the presidency. BOSTON THEATRES The same week that the editors went dithyramfcic the South Shore Players at Cohasset put on Maxwell Max-well Anderson's political play "Ecth Your Hojsjs," a nay never before produced outside New Vork and one that won the Pulitzer prize the year it was produced. ine leading man in the Theatre Guild production was also in tne Cohasset Coh-asset cast and as Cohasset is a Boston summer colony, Boston pecple flocked to it- and had a chance to get inside dope on Washington. The play is nothing but a series of look-ins on Committee Com-mittee meetings oi senators pie-paring pie-paring an appropriations bill which the head of the committee knows must be kept down to two million if it is to pass. Each member of the committee has his own axe to grind and his own pocket to fill, but a new congressman, congress-man, a young man irom. Ncvaa'a, tells them they are working neither nei-ther for the good cf the nation nor for their constituants. "What of it?", they cheerfully reply, "No congressman does. You have to come from Nevada to be as simple as to think they would work with any other incentive." To prevent the bill from passing he plays politics until tne appropriations are doubled and he thinks it; impossible im-possible for it to pass. However the pork barrel shoes are so inviting in-viting that it passes with but little opposition and the Nevada man is disgusted with political life in Washington. However the eld stagers among the senators pat him on the back and tell him you can put anything over on the public so long as you give people prosperity. The most remarkable thing about the play is that the virtuous young man comes from Nevada. He must have been born under the covenant in Clark County. The play has life, vigor, and movement. Superb lines for everyone and every department of political science in state colleges should see that it is played for) students at least once a year. If they don't, then the L.D.S. Seminary Semin-ary should get onto the job. And while we are on the stage we had better speak of two revues, or vaudeville hodgepodges, that are makng Boston get hot again after its summer sweat. One is called "Thumbs Up." It would puzzle even Shakespeare to know why. The best thing in it is not the cheap jokes of the star, Eddie Ed-die Dowling but the dancing of Faul Draper, who has grace, personality, per-sonality, and technique unlimited. This revue is starting in Boston a coast to coast tour and has to make $10,000 a week to clear expenses. ex-penses. It is more than doing that in Boston. We asked them if they would "make" Logan, Utah, and they shook their heads, saying that Logan was reputed to have the finest theatre betweeen the Mississippi and the Pacific Coast, but was blacklisted because Logan citizens spent all their money fori I BOSTON POLITICS I If eternal progress consists in ' following the New Deal then Bos-! ton has no use for it. Early in August the old Puritan city rejoiced re-joiced mightily ever the report of j the Democratic defeat in Rhode j Island where a Republican major-! ity of 13,000 replaced a Democratic Democra-tic of 21,000 nine months before where cities that had remained Democratic under Harding now went Republican, and where Harding Hard-ing once won the state by more than 50,000. Jubilant is the word for the Boston editois as they thought of the happy days, luck-: ily not beyond recall, when the Great Engineer ruled uv the White ! House and the depression war! clouds were rolling in ever black-, er. The editors seemed to think j Rhode Island must be highly in-j telligent, that even the common people must have been doing more thinking than talking, that theyi were beginning to realize the, waste, the conflicts in policy, the j rank injustice of the processing) tax, the intrusion of politics, the supreme courts ruling on the New Deal laws, and overshadowing all! they must have had a dawning ' realization that someone must pay j the bills and that the expense j would probably fall on the masses j directly or indirectly, the rich I would not get soaked, but the: masses would, they usually do. The editors knew the hot indigna-1 tion of business and professional men but had never dreamed that it was shared by people who work for wages from day to day. The editors concluded that the republican republi-can majority bein gso large it must indicate that the President Is doomed, regardless of what he, may do to repair the damage hej has caused. ,Such being the case the Boston j Transcript started a series ofj stories on Republican "White Hemes," written by its Washing-j ton correspondent, Oliver McFee j Jr., a journalist none too famous for his independent thinking. The fifth of his series was on Senator! Borah. According to the - writer Borah would be the best possible, man at the head of the ticket to dramatize the issues and put them j in simple terms, understandable; by the people. He would appeal j to the West. He has already chal-j lenged much o the political phil-i osophy of the New Deal. He ap- pears constantly in the headlines, but his inconsistencies are against him and he is too much of an1 individualist and a knight errant to make a good administrator, ex-l ecutive and party leader. Besides he is over seventy and has never shown any Indication of wanting as fellows in part about one celebration. cele-bration. "Habitual loafers on Boston Common were mildly surprised to see a collection of 100 or so women wo-men congregate, sit down on camp chairs and start furiously to knit. The knitting turned out to be part of Boston's tercentenary celebration cele-bration and it commemorated a spinning contest held there 182 years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag was a red stripe." The celebrations are all sponsored sponsor-ed by the State Emergency Relief Administration and by the city of Boston. They have included an open air performance near the Frog Pond of Sheridan's "Rivals" concerts by E.R.A. bands and orchestras, or-chestras, a pageant with chorus and orchestra, on an open air stage, on the subject of the negro in America, a subject ever dearer than theology to the. hearts of Bcstonians, an Italian night, an open air performance of Pinafore, Pina-fore, and an historic festival. Even if Massachusetts does kill off an average of 23 in automobile accidents acci-dents every Sunday she does try to give bread and circuses to those who stay on Boston Common Com-mon and do not court death on the highway. A . road shows in Salt Lake. The other revue is "At Home Abroad" with the beauteous eBatrice Lillie, but to use the finest moment of the show was the dancing of Paul Haakon in the "Death in the Afternoon" Af-ternoon" ballet. Mr. Haakon is a Danish dancer, trained in Copenhagen, Copen-hagen, and his ballet is dedicated to Ernest Hemenway from whose book "Death Comes in the Afternoon" Af-ternoon" the ballet was taken. This is a book that every animal husbandry hus-bandry student and professor should read in order to know how animal husbandry may be linked with good English and pertinent ideas. Such usually do not have even a bowing acquaintance with each other, even in college circles. cir-cles. The book is in the Logan public library but we know of only two people who have read it and one of them is a Provo professor and the other has left town. CHILDREN'S GARDENS IN BOSTON Far more interesting than Paul Draper or Beatrice Lillie was the exhibition of the products . of children's gardens that took place the last two days of August in the hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This was sponsored by the state Four H clubs and by the Smith Hughes high school work and many of the exhibits passed on to the larger lar-ger fairs at .Brockton and Springfield. Spring-field. The strongest hold on such children is horticulture, poultry arid dairy work. More than four thousand children have city gardens gar-dens and at the exhibition there were over a thousand entries in tomatoes, beans and carrots. One reason for such wide spread interest in-terest is the fact that high schoo students in horticulture easily find remunerative summer work with florists, market gardeners and on the numerous campuses and city parks. Only those who have stamina stam-ina enough to do well in high school English, mathematics, science and languages pass on to the colleges, col-leges, for Massachusetts long ago discovered that you cannot make a race horse out of a plough horse. You may wonder why more do not get into forestry but in New England forestry work is only for college graduates with the requisite re-quisite background. A great incentive in-centive to exhibits at the Children's" Child-ren's" Garden display is the large j number of prizes which run all: the way from fifty cents to fifteen, dollars and are so numerous that I there are 134 for flowers and 165 for vegetables. This is in the Children's Garden class alone while the Four H exhibits and the novice exhibits receive almost as many prizes. BOSTON COMMON TERCENTENARY Utah as well as Boston knows the value of a town Common or Tabernacle Square, and how valuable val-uable such a piece of communty property may be for amusement purposes is being shown during August and September by the number of uses to which Boston Common is being put in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of its becoming city property. The August 26th issue of "Time" told |