Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink 'em...
...years, Doriot, a sweaty mountain of a man whose rubber-tired spectacles made the French think that he was somehow endowed with American go-get-'em, was a rabid Communist leader-until he was read out of the party in 1934. By 1937 he had attacked his old Communist comrades, welded unemployed and middle-class dissidents into the Germanophile People's Party with the aid of funds from Pierre Laval and other Rightists. He came to be known as the "coming Führer of France." Later he disappeared politically into Franco Spain. But now, in 1942, with...
Keep 'Em Laughing (produced by Clifford C. Fischer in association with the Shuberts). Just when vaudeville had been finally given up for dead, Producer Fischer put on Priorities of 1942 (TIME, March 23) and gave Broadway the only living thing it has seen in months. Last week, with Priorities an established hit, Fischer put out another vaudeville. On paper Keep 'Em Laughing looks like a better show, in performance proves a less enjoyable one. Chief reasons: it lacks high spirits, and almost all its headliners go into tailspins...
Fortunately Keep 'Em Laughing isn't all headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
...professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...