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Lord Tyrrell, 77-year-old president of the British Board of Film Censorship and a devout Catholic, forbade the showing of Stage Door Canteen unless a scene featuring Gracie Fields was cut out. His objection was not esthetic (he once remarked "I have no particular taste") but pious. The offending scene: energetic Gracie singing The Lord's Prayer...
...novel is not about the factory or the mechanical miracles which materialize in planes. It is about the people who make the planes-their lives, thoughts and hopes. With adroit skill he takes the reader about the plant, from office to assembly line, from drill press to canteen, relating a life history here, sketching a vignette there, until some 50 faces have become recognizable people and the novel's main motifs are weaving the mild suspense which makes Priestley so easy to read...
...industrial chaplain generally has some sort of improvised chapel (often it is also a lending library) where he holds services, talks with workers who want advice. But his ministry is not confined to the chapel. Often he goes to the factory canteen, holds a brief service (hymns, prayers, address, question-&-answer period) after meals. He sometimes holds services in the shadow of a ship's hull, perhaps during the night leads a few hymns and some prayers in the factory air-raid shelter...
...successful Broadway musical in which Danny Kaye's double-talk singing and double-jointed posturings brought down the house two years ago. Although Bob Hope is in the driver's seat, the only house likely to be brought down by the movie is an Army canteen which suffers a direct hit by a Hope-driven jeep. Other antics center around a country weekend crisis when three cutie-accompanied husbands meet up with their three draftee-accompanied wives. Throaty Betty Hutton provides a diversion with a machine-gun-speed offering of Let's Not Talk About Love...
Radio has at last made a good thing out of the American institution of the blind date (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). Six servicemen (usually chosen from a nearby canteen) are paired off before a telephone in NBC's Manhattan studios. Each pair competes for a pretty girl at the other end of the line. Each man's vocal persuasiveness is his only weapon. Boy cannot see girl, and vice versa. She chooses one of the two, and the three winners take their girls to the Stork Club for a full evening of dining and dancing...