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...Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour show, fork over a smacking $25,000 weekly for the look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Among them are the Duke of Kent and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands -Lord Beaverbrook, Publisher of the Daily Express, and Sir Walter Citrine, head of the British Trades Union Council-H. G. Wells, Noel Coward, Brendan Bracken, Lady Astor and many other people high in the official, industrial and intellectual life of the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Perhaps to prove that consistency is the luxury of the irresponsible, Lady Astor complained to the London News Chronicle: "Russia, Russia, Russia. That's all we read in the newspapers, all we hear in the broadcasts. They are fighting the same enemy, but they are fighting for themselves, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Funeral | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Across the Pacific (Warner) is a midsummer melodrama that scarcely gets out of the Atlantic. On a cruise down the east coast of North America (Halifax to the Canal Zone) are Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. They have such a good time sunning themselves that they neglect to make much of a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Amid the carnage Cinemactors Bogart and Astor manage to mix lighthearted love and heavy-handed melodrama with some funny conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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