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...Variety gave no award for radio criticism, grimly announcing that "there is no such thing in the U.S. as serious radio criticism except in this and one or two other business publications." This year it tendered a tentative laurel to the New York Times radio department and its editor of the past six months, shy, slight John K. Hutchens, for "a promising type of literate analysis...
...temporarily worked out: an outfit called Camp Shows Inc. will foster plays; the Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...
...this week when they defeated Eliot; while Dunster copped the touch football crown by defeating the Deacon outfit 6-0. Although there are several games yet to be played, the Funsters are undefeated in their seven League touch games, which gives them enough points to walk off with the Laurel wreath, while the Deacons' undefeated booting record definitely places them at the top of the House heap...
...President greeted him with the melting charm that only a Roosevelt can muster, touched his heart by inquiring about Mrs. Doughton's health, asked how the Doughton beef steers were getting on at Laurel Springs, N.C. Then he mentioned the Social Security message he was preparing for Congress, topped it off with some breezy chitchat about world affairs. Mountaineer Doughton went away mollified but not wholly convinced. He thought the President would probably see part of his New Deal dream made flesh, but not his whole heart's desire...
...year. A thousand good gags--they've all stood the test of time--have been thoroughly rehashed and served up with a haunted house and the gaunt Andrews Sisters. This is unadulterated slapstick with Jello Costello as usual getting the slaps. If you've followed the 1941 Laurel and Hardy in their rampage through our armed forces, come back for more of the same comedy--if not, then come to form the Abbott habit...