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Hospitalized on a tour of U.S. camps in England: Cinemactress Kay Francis (laryngitis); Dancer Mitzi Mayfair (arm & shoulder wrenches from jitterbugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Bill Robinson, past master of the soft shoe routine, packed the Hasty Pudding Club last night in a show for the Naval Training School. There was standing room only in the auditorium as 400 Navy men and their guests watched Bill take time off from his stint at the Mayfair to entertain with his inimitable tapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NTS REVUE HEADED BY BILL ROBINSON | 10/20/1942 | See Source »

...Boston, fat pay checks from Massachusetts war factories have put new life into New England nights. Hundreds of people pack the Club Mayfair, the Satire Room. In the Copley Plaza's Oval Room business is 50% above last year; the popular Beachcomber recently doubled capacity to seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...exile was no novelty to George II. In & out of the pepperpot politics of pre-World War II Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Long Live the Nation | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORALE: Camp Shows | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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