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FARNUM F. DORSEY New York City...
...other way, and treats itself as if rice were slithering out of its lingerie. But as a grab bag of short turns, encores and gracious gestures by well-liked Warner names (Dennis Morgan, Jack Benny, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Jane Wyman, S. Z. Sakall) and name bands (Jimmy Dorsey, Carmen Cavallaro), Hollywood Canteen is pleasant enough until it becomes plethoric...
Reported Missing. Major Glenn Miller, 39, begoggled, popular trombonist and bandsman, leader of the Army Air Forces Band currently entertaining in Paris; while a passenger on a flight from England to Paris. Born in Clarinda, Iowa. Miller played with Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Bros., Ray Noble; in 1939 he became king of the juke boxes...
...Tommy Dorsey, trombonist, swung on Jon Hall, beautiful, bronzed cinemactor. Hall's doctor said that Hall ended up with a broken nose, cut nostril, stabbed neck, sliced head and face, requiring 50 stitches all told. Bystanders reported that Dorsey was joined in the melee by three other men. Scene: Dorsey's Hollywood apartment. Ostensible cause: Hall embraced Dorsey's wife, Actress Pat Dane...
...tune-stirred summer salad into which M.G.M.'s chefs seem to have whipped practically everyone and every thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms sings it. Admirers of Lena Home...