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...note from Mrs. E. E. Abbott, wife of a sailor, to her mother: "Philadelphia is . . . the most intemperate city in the Union. . . . Almost every man and boy drinks, or else you are a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Addressee: Dead | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Keep 'Em Flying (Universal) is Abbott & Costello's fourth picture in ten months, their third crack at the armed forces of the U.S. Having thoroughly balled up the Army and the Navy, the slapsticky pair of onetime burlesque comedians this time tackle the Air Corps. The result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORALE: Camp Shows | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Candler was then in charge of McKendree Chapel, Nashville headquarters of Southern Methodism. Emma Abbott with her opera company had just finished a three nights' engagement at Nashville's Vendome Theater. In his Sunday morning sermon, Dr. Candler attacked the theater in general, and Emma Abbott in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...finished, much to his and the congregation's astonishment, Miss Abbott arose in the audience, made a spirited defense of herself and the theater, then walked out. Dr. Candler, in a dignified tone said: "I will not reply to the lady, as she is a lady. Let us sing Rock of Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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