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However blithe about box office, Broadway has its fears about manpower. Though it has lost fewer big names to the armed services than Hollywood, gone or going are Playwrights Sidney Kingsley (Dead End), Thornton Wilder (Our Town), William Saroyan, Jerome Chodorov (My Sister Eileen), Irwin Shaw (Bury the Dead); Actors Maurice Evans, Burgess Meredith, Lee J. Cobb; top Scene Designers Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager. Worse, Actors' Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available...
...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
...Parliament last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood announced that Britain was spending ?13,000,000 ($52,000,000) a day (or $2,166,666 every hour) on World War II. This was 50% greater than the peak spending of World...
None of Sir Kingsley's figures took into account U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Britain. When the Chancellor was through, Parliament voted its third ?1,000,000,000 war credit during...
...Good example of the latest model in M.P.s: Playwright Sidney Kingsley, now at Fort Jay, who stands 5 ft. 6 in., weighs...