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Served up with showmanship, it made a jolly evening. In the orchestra pit a lusty Army band fiddled and blew. Between playlets, enlisted men did smart tap dances, takeoffs, tricks. The playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets in Manhattan, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Here is one you may have missed. Rosiland Russell and Janet Blair (My Sister Eileen) in a daffy sort of comedy about two wet-behind-the-ears midwestern girls who hit the Big Town--and in turn get his by it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

Happy Go Lucky (Paramount) is a calypso excursion to Trinidad which lost its Hays office censors en route. The picture's mildly daffy happenings, concern Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin's campaign to capture a rich husband (Rudy Vallee). For Rudy, it is the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicals | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Acting honors are pretty evenly divided between Hope and Crosby. Bob has the more sympathetic role--he gets kicked around by just about everybody--but Bing provides the perfect contrast, besides singing as well as ever. Definitely the weak sister of the featured trio, Dorothy Lamour looks adequate if nothing...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Up a 60-foot flagpole near Washington, up out of limbo shinnied the Daffy Decade's champion flagpole sitter, Aloysius Anthony ("Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Light Wines & Fondant | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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