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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Pirate (by S. N. Behrman; produced by The Playwrights' Company & The Theater Guild) is the season's gayest bore. Everything conceivable has been done to make it seem that Playwright Behrman has really written a play. The sets are charming. The incidental music is lively. The costumes are gorgeous. Above all, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne-he at his most swashbuckling, she at her most mischievous-romp and cavort for all they are worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...circles had already read of topflight French painters touring Germany as honored guests (TIME, June 29). They got an equally surprising picture last week of the artist's life in war-torn France. Painter of the picture, done in the gayest of colors, was famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending A Staircase was the hottest artistic cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artist Descending to America | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

America's gayest graveyard began a new broadcast last fortnight (Bible readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Cemetery | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Yale's home course on the Housatonic. There were no observation trains, no flotilla of yachts, no high jinks on the banks. But old grads turned out, a few thousand strong, to pay what may be their last respects (for the duration.) to the oldest and once the gayest intercollegiate sport event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Respects | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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