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...Four Jills and a Jeep" with Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair, John Harvey, Dick Haymes, and Jimmy Dorsey is the film being shown this weekend for the Naval Training Schools at the Music Hall. The story is based upon the entertainment tour of the four girls overseas at various camps in North Africa and England. Time schedule: Friday at 1800, Saturday and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The staff of the schools is invited to a special showing Friday at 2030. Films are not continuous...
Henry Ford bought off for an undisclosed sum Swingster Tommy Dorsey's $130,000 contract for a 13-week Ford radio appearance. The aged patron of country fiddlers was reported to have objected to the way modern dance bands go to town...
Gene Krupa got the greatest ovation in the history of Broadway's Paramount Theater - on his first theater date since he was paroled from San Quentin last summer on a narcotics charge. He was sitting at the drums with Tommy Dorsey's band when it rose in the dark out of the pit. There had been no announcement that he was back. Hepcats in the audience saw him before the lights went up. They started murmuring. The opening number was Gettin' Sentimental Over You. Four thousand enthusiasts shouted and beat their hands off. Drummer Krupa wept...
Girl Crazy (M.G.M.) shows Judy Garland all buoyed up by Mickey Rooney. There are also Tommy Dorsey's band, which sets the pace for some stupefying dance routines, a comic girl (Nancy Walker) who talks like a Brooklyn Dodger in skirts, and a musicomic plot...
While this musical-comedy plot thickens to the curdling point, a good many variously gifted people are kept busy making the show entertaining. Jimmy Dorsey's band establishes one hit (the smoothly meandering Star Eyes) and one bidder (the galumphing So Long, Sarah Jane). Hazel Scott blends swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer...