Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Polski troupe, the Turas (Jack Benny and Miss Lombard) are a brittle couple. Their favorite soliloquy is Hamlet's To be, or not to be. . . . He likes to deliver it because it flatters his ego, at length; she likes it because it gives her time to entertain her male admirers backstage...