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...creation of a historic era of U.S. show business. Not that the picture is a strict reconstruction of the playwright-songwright-actor-producer-hoofer's life. But star-spangled George M. Cohan, now 63, ailing, and confined to his upstate New York farm, was the kind of entertainer who really liked to entertain people, and Yankee Doodle has caught his spontaneous warmth...
...entertain a Radcliffe girl in the evening is simple. Don't be ashamed to take her to the University Theater, walking her back and forth to her dormitory. Above all, don't be loathe to use the subway to get her into Boston. She'll be so tickled pink to see that fabulous city that she'll almost be willing to pay her own fare. (Note quite.) In Boston are plays, movies, bars, symphonies, and store windows, depending on your pleasure and your purse...
...decided to rule out the rough-&-tumble cantonments of the U.S. armed forces as scenes for his weekly Sunday broadcasts, put them back in the studio for the duration. Although willing to do special camp shows, fretful Jack Benny, after several attempts, had concluded that he couldn't entertain soldiers and the home folks from the same script. His advertising agency agreed, but its announcement of the disassociation raised a few eyebrows. No slacker, Jack Benny this week is right back on the Army...
...down cots in corridors and gymnasiums of his 30 high schools, called on his cooks and students to man the kitchens, bedded & fed thousands of soldiers, who decamped each morning to let classes go on. Of an evening Superintendent Kersey, persistent in his good works, would have his students entertain the soldiers with dances, operettas...
...Fleet's In (Paramount) is exactly what its title suggests: something to entertain the boys on shore leave. Some of this entertainment weighs around 120 lb., looks good and steps lively. The rest is a massive aggregation of singers, dancers, assorted entertainers (rubber-jointed Betty Hutton, et al.) and little Jimmy Dorsey's molten musicians. The result is hot & cold, but makes a cheerful rushing sound...