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Holiday Inn (Paramount). This first cinema conjunction of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a box-office bargain-an effervescent musical, spiced with 13 pleasant Irving Berlin melodies. It is whipped into expert froth by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich, maker of most of the Astaire-Rogers musicals...
...reports showed that not James Cagney but Bing Crosby was the biggest money-maker among cinemactors in 1941. His take from pictures and records: $400,640. His radio earnings were unreported...
...honorary M.D.s and Ph.D.s had been virtually disgraced (but Bing Crosby got an honorary Ph.D. from his Alma Mater, Washington's Gonzaga University, in 1937). Today the usual honorary degrees are LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), Litt.D. (Letters), Sc.D. (Science), D.D. (Divinity). But Investigator Epler found that most people could not distinguish these from earned doctorates. Most frequent earned degrees corresponding to the honorary ones: Ph.D. (given in various fields), J.D. or J.S.D. (Doctor of Law or the Science of Jurisprudence), Sc.D. (Doctor of Science), Th.D. (Doctor of Theology...
...label into storage for the duration. Victor still clung to its Bluebird name, Decca to its standard blue label, but all three moved their top names (e.g., Victor's Glenn Miller, Columbia's Benny Goodman, Decca's Jimmy Dorsey) up to the 50? platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from distributors one old record for every three new ones bought. Reason: reclaimed materials stretch virgin shellac three times...
Jerry Lester, noted funny-man who took over Bing Crosby's program last summer, will provide the evenings laughs with his rapid-fire banter in the well-known Bob Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...