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Word: allens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gracie raised Cain on the air, popping up on countless programs in search of her supposedly missing brother. The search went on for months, got to be a coast-to-coast gag. It also boosted Burns & Allen's radio popularity tremendously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Gracie Allen's dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Dorothy Knight, in process of divorcing her husband, Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Dorothy Knight, in process of divorcing her husband, Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep. The dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Weak Link (by Allen Wood: produced by Chester Erskin in association with Philip Adler) is a farce-melodrama as lighthearted as Tiny Tim, and as lame. It concerns a young man who can spot the weak link in every crime. Offering his services to a "Bankers' Protective Association" to help prevent robberies, he finds himself among crooks, is forced to help commit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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