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...Personally," said Edgar Bergen, "I never thought entertainment so damn important, but I changed my mind after we toured the Army posts in Alaska." Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up there had taken the zest out of him for entertaining civilians. Last week they were backed up by Bob Hope, the hardest-traveling Army-camp trooper of them all. The Aleutian circuit, he declared, comprised the greatest audience in the world. Back home, both Bergen and Hope were geysers of zestful anecdote in proof of their claim...
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...
...best gag writers in the business, Bergen follows two heavyweight (Charles Laugh ton, Orson Welles), one lightweight (Rudy Vallee) lecturer, imported by U.C.L.A. to add a touch of mundaneity to the English curriculum...
...Bergen, three Norwegians were shot on charges of possessing arms and attempting to escape to England. Total Norwegians shot to date...
...means the first direct action taken by labor in Norway, the strike topped off a long series of incidents. In January a string of German warehouses were fired. In March the main aqueduct in Oslo was cut. The Germans have had repeated trouble keeping the important Bergen-Oslo railroad open. Mysterious fires, destroying German goods, continually break out all over the country...