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Bebe Daniels, De Mille-made star of nearly 50 pictures, is now ill in her Bayswater house, where she and Lyon put up song writers, gag writers, secretaries, itinerant fellow-players, men on leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
...Done It?, beginning as soda jerks ambitious to write radio thrillers and going on to a cops & robbers chase, they regale their fans with such choice double-takes as "Who?" "Watt," "That's what I said." Their freshest gag...
What Rudy Vallee needed was a big-nosed redhead who could take a verbal pratfall. A year ago, when his music & gag show started skidding badly, Rudy got the girl. Comedienne Joan Davis accepted a two-week guest spot on Rudy's program...
...General George C. Marshall had spent almost a whole day giving testimony on the bill to draft 18-and 19-year-olds; how Admiral Ernest J. King had cooled his heels for 40 minutes in an empty committee room while a Senate committee dawdled at lunch. A Washington gag had it that WPBoss Donald Nelson had already testified before every committee (there are 80) except those on Indian Affairs and the Disposition of Executive Papers...
...Typical gag: A stripteaser, trying to wheedle the Army into letting her do her act, asks whether the boys aren't fighting for American womanhood. Assured that they are, she queries: "Well, then, why can't we show them what they're fighting...