Cane be gone

Sat., April 11, 1936 - Mom and I went to Wayne again in Edwin's car.  This is my last treatment.  Orders are not to sit too much nor lift too heavy things.  Went to Card Club at Davis' tonite.  We all had to dress like kids.  Had a good time.
Sun., April 12, 1936 - Beautiful Easter Sunday.  Ray in for church again.  Martha had her baby baptized.  We were going out to Harry Kahler's this p.m. because they're moving tomorrow, but Aunt Emma, the boys, Sophia & John came down. Howard and I went to the show tonite, Dick Powell in "Thanks a Million."
Mon., April 13, 1936 - I'm really much improved.  I left the cane at home this week.  Very, very dusty and windy today.  Reviewed with seventh grade.

The movie sounds like fun, and it was a musical to boot.  Who doesn't like a good musical?

     From wikipedia:  Stranded in a small town in a downpour, the manager of a traveling musical show (Fred Allen) convinces the handlers of a boring long-winded local judge running for governor (Raymond Walburn) to hire his group to attract people to the politician's rallies. When the show's crooner, Eric Land (Dick Powell), upstages the judge, he's fired, but on a return visit he saves the day by standing in for the judge, who is too drunk to speak.

     Impressed by his poise, the party's bosses ask Eric to take over as candidate. The singer, knowing he has no chance to win, agrees for the exposure and the radio airtime in which he can showcase his singing. Soon, though, his girlfriend Sally (Ann Dvorak) becomes annoyed at the amount of time Eric is spending with the wife of one of the bosses, and she leaves when she thinks he has lied to her.


     When the bosses ask Eric to agree to patronage appointments that will lead to easy graft for all of them, he exposes them on the radio, telling the voters that voting for him would be a huge mistake and urging them to vote for his opponent. At the end Eric is, of course, elected governor, then reunited with Sally.

     Thanks a Million was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound (E. H. Hansen) in 1935.  It was remade in 1946 as If I'm Lucky, with Perry Como and Phil Silvers in the Powell and Allen roles.

Movie poster from Twentieth Century.