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...gal familiar to Broadway for a generation, with her hard little face and her soft, flabby hips. Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine. Even so, it's not very pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old & New Plays in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...phrase for the kind of treatment Columbia has in store for its new star. Her salary, now $800 weekly, is due for a boost. She will also get star billing. At present she is scheduled to play opposite Charles Boyer in Tales of Manhattan, a lead in My Gal Sal, and the title role in My Sister Eileen. Then another musical with Fred Astaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snowball Brew Flows To Canal on Gulp Stream | 10/23/1941 | See Source »

Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pappy's Pupils | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Leon's Week | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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