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...President also had a little gag for White House newsmen. Appearing at his press conference with a bandage on the nape of his neck, he said it was because he had had a growing wen removed. He mentioned this, he said, so that Secretary Steve Early could have a respite from reporters who had heard that the President had been under the knife...
...startled soldiers stopped pinching themselves when their commander, Captain Kenneth F. Maxcy Jr. told them it was no cruel gag. It was their reward for a crack job in tank crew gunnery...
Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...
When the playgoer comes into the theatre and sees the first two characters on his program (the protagonist and his conscience) he draws a deep breath and prays. There is no artifice so flimsy as the conscience-on-the-stage gag, or one so easily collapsible if poorly done. That the show comes over as well as it does is due to a large extent to a new young actor who plays the conscience--David Wayne...
...British, who got the program by transcription after its initial broadcast over the NBC network, ate it up. They also liked An Englishman Looks at San Francisco ("All that Britain means to the war in Europe, San Francisco means to the war out there in the Pacific") -especially the gag about how fast Henry Kaiser's shipyards build ships...