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...fighting men, this grimmest of wars is in one small way also the gayest. Never before have the folks who entertain the boys been so numerous or so notable; never have they worked so hard, traveled so far, risked so much. In the Middle East last week were Jack Benny, Larry Adler with his harmonica, Al Jolson with a harmonium; Ray Bolger was in the South Pacific, Judith Anderson in Hawaii. A while back Martha Raye went to the foxholes of Tunisia; and in New Guinea a show went on within earshot of the Japs. From the ranks of show...
Author Priestley's best-selling manipulations of sweetness and light (The Good Companions) have neither closed his mind nor cloyed his large public. Daylight on Saturday is a surprisingly successful blend of his new realism and his old sentiment. It reveals a picture of wartime England that will entertain the lighthearted, interest the thoughtful...
...Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...
...horrid experience with some dice-so said the National Police Gazette's publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous-the only dice he had ever owned had come with...
...naked Y Huts of the Western Front housed many artists from the dusty, anonymous pantheon of American vaudeville. To entertain the troops, about 300 professional entertainers, supplemented on the spot by countless soldier-actors, went to France. Usually the soldier-spectators crowded the huts hours ahead of time and stood outside the windows...