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...Seven Lively Arts. Billy Rose's cultural zoo, chiefly notable for mocking bird Bea Lillie (TIME...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...
...what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy Dorsey's Blue Blazes for another sergeant "who is homesick for his wife...
...often taken his wife and his namesake son, maps, books, thermos bottle and lunch, to the fields of Manassas and Gettysburg, and he and his army of Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down in that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where...
Smackover,* Ark. Dark-haired, Texas-born Bea Muncy Reynolds took over the management of the Smackover Journal in 1937. Her audience was a town of about 2,500 which derived some importance from the fact that it sits smack on top of a 500-million-barrel petroleum pool. Mrs. Reynolds got along fine for awhile. The Journal earned enough to permit purchase of many a new machine for the job shop. Once it got a real news break, when a refinery exploded and caught fire, killing several Smackoverans and injuring scores on publication day. That night the Journal carried...