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Stage Door Canteen (United Artists) is Hollywood's double-jumbo version of the kind of entertainment that happens nightly at Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen for men in uniform. In the picture a number of lovelorn soldiers and their canteen girls are deluged with an avalanche of celebrity performances that keeps pouring for more than two hours...
Lore. In New Guinea, Sergeant Jack Percy of Los Angeles saw an officer in the next tent drinking out of a canteen marked "JP-USA-AEF," identified it as the one he used in France...
...quarter as many as This Is the Army's cast of 300, The Army Show provides no breath-taking spectacle of massed men in uniform, no rafter-shaking choruses. Nor has it an Irving Berlin to give it tunes like I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen or This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. But it has the CWACS (Canadian Women's Army Corps) to lend it lure. And it has a twofold function: besides playing Canada's cities to swell the Troops Welfare Fund, it will tour Canada's army camps (in shortened...
...first half of the show, laid in a canteen, moves fast with sentiment, boogie-woogie, corn with butter and salt, corn without them, a male cancan, a brass-hat quartet, which warbles...
...newcomer, which outstripped all combined old-established brands 2½-to-1. The best-seller in Australia was a onetime "10?" brand called Domino, followed by Wings, Raleigh and Avalon. Reason: there were few if any Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes, Old Golds and Philip Morris available. At the Army canteen nearest MacArthur's headquarters, Avalons had been for a fortnight the only cigaret available...