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Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Title V Nonsense | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Catherine Was Great (by Mae West; produced by Michael Todd) is an opulent and incredible fancy-undress affair in which the queen of all the sirens essays the Empress of All the Russias. "Catherine," said Mae West in a first-night curtain speech, "had 300 lovers. I did the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Worse yet, the man-eater in Catherine was not enough for Actress West; she insisted on encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Mae West opened her new show, Catherine Was Great, in Philadelphia. Her first legitimate playwriting effort since The Constant Sinner in 1931, it was saluted as "dull" and "soggy" by critics. But Philadelphians kept packing in to hear Mae's latest line: "I've had a very busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Grand Tourists | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

The Milky Way. In Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Copulos celebrated her 102nd birthday, announced that she had quit drinking a daily glass of port wine, now takes a glass of milk.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

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