Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miller). The only London theater that has never shut down, come blitz or blackout, is the tiny Windmill with its breezy nonstop revue. In Heart of a City English Playwright Storm has pictured backstage life at the Windmill while the bombs are falling outside. Lovely and lightly clad showgirls duck in & out of dressing rooms, rehearse, have their fun, lose their hearts, stifle their fears. The play is a tribute to two kinds of grit, "There'll Always Be An England" weaving in with "The Show Must...
...Washington, filled with packages of old razor blades, night caps, broken phonograph records of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, straw hats, old tires, cracked dental plates, wooden legs, crutches, glass eyes. San Francisco offered a shipment labeled Save Your Truck For A Lame Duck...
...Spirit (Walt Disney's income tax short starring Donald Duck; TIME...
...some reason, probably because it's in technicolor, "Bahama Passage" is billed above "Unholy Partners" in a dreary show at the U.T. Actually, both features can take a back seat to Donald Duck. Not only does the short present Donald in his customary good form, it proves in a fast ten minutes that Hollywood can propagandize for defense without the usual conglomeration of platitudes and bathing-beauties...
Donald, at that, is fit to be tied. But the radio goes to work on him. "Taxes to beat the Axis!" it chants. When the Duck realizes what armament his money will buy, he can't wait for Tax Day. His pen, blotter, inkwell, account book go to work on his short-form income-tax blank (for incomes under $3,000). Donald finds he owes a $13 tax. He scurries all the way to Washington to get it in on time...