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...trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail bussed her, and Bill Robinson tap-danced in a gold-&-ermine suit on "Hitler's coffin." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt sent over a plate of flapjacks and a can of maple syrup to Lord Beaverbrook. - Japan...
...short year has achieved so many kudos as the Panama Coast Artillery News. Last week, about to celebrate its first anniversary, the News had on hand congratulations from the President of the U.S., the President of Panama, Secretary Stimson, Chief of Staff Marshall, Comedians Lew Lehr and Eddie Cantor (Lehr: "Monkeys is the craziest people and so is the editorial staff of the P.C.A. News...
...people in Central Park (some estimates were 750,000) in a patriotic rally to celebrate "I Am An American Day" and the Mayor, facing the biggest crowd in Manhattan's history, let himself go. He led the bands, introduced the speakers, exchanged ancient jokes with Eddie Cantor, and wound up with a message to dictators : "I tell them not to depend on the fifth column in this country because there is only one column here. That is the American column." He overshadowed Harold Ickes, bubbled and sizzled like a drop of water in a hot frying pan, and left...
...Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less than white tie & tails would do. Since then, Harmonicist Adler has rarely performed with any more modest backing...
...prepare U.S. radio listeners for a week during which it became difficult to tune in without hearing Benny hailed or Jell-O joshed, Variety had published a Benny issue, complete with impressive data on the rise and take* of radio's richest earner. On one program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail...