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...Information Service's bulletins to China (framed by the State Department) sounded quite different. In its account of the China hearings, USIS gave a niggling 17 lines to Wedemeyer, a fat 68 to Willard Thorp and William Walton Butterworth Jr., State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China...
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...
Clean Cruelty. In Boston, Paul F. Bucci won a divorce on grounds of cruelty when he testified that his wife kept their home too clean - "like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube...
...under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident on Pan-American's Atlantic run since...
Count Me In (music & lyrics by Ann Ronell; book by Waiter Kerr & Leo Brady) has Charles Butterworth and Luella Gear (both accomplished comics when they are given half a chance), the nimble dancing feet of Hal Leroy, a fast-paced, fine-feathered chorus and an estimated $100,000 worth of trimmings. What makes it commonplace is its tunes. What bends it over double and finally lays it out flat is its book (about a family who are all in the war except Papa): it stupefies with as dull a book as any in years...