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...sided and often untrue. All gifts in Hollywood are likely to be on the sunny side of munificence, and Louella invariably spends more on gifts than the value she receives. It is the same with parties. Louella and her husband love them and give them often. Sometimes the Martins entertain 300 people in an evening; their home on Maple Drive is known around Hollywood as the Parsons Short-Order House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Hollywood's Back Fence | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...same evening the Chaplains' Commission of the congregational Church will entertain the Chaplains affiliated with the Congregational-Christian denomination and the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant at a dinner meeting at the Boston City Club, with Dr. Fred Fagley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY CHAPLAIN SCHOOL | 1/14/1944 | See Source »

John Dixon, Negro tenor, will also entertain at the same meeting by singing "Eili-cili." "Dark Eyes," and "Ole Man River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Allport Will Discuss Minorities at Meeting | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shapes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Lower Globaler | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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