Word: entertainement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance is sponsored by the Jewish Professional and Business Men of Greater Boston's association, and the committee in charge of the dance is headed by Abraham Isenstadt of Harvard Square. There will be free refreshments. The entire show from the May fair will come down to entertain...
Carrying on Mother Advocate's tradition, the Bow Street editors in conjunction with the Harvard Dramatic Club will entertain Paul Robeson and other principals from the cast of "Othello" at a punch at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon...
...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...
...their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that in foreign parts called up its image. Hence boys whom Hope might entertain for an hour awaited him for weeks. And when he came, anonymous guys who had had no other recognition felt personally remembered...
...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...