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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheldon Clark, chairman of the executive committee of the Sinclair Oil Corp.; Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters; Clarence Francis, board chairman of the General Foods Corp.; George Gallup of Young & Rubicam; Henry R. Luce, TIME Inc.; James W. Young of J. Walter Thompson Co.; Dr. William I. Myers of Cornell University; Chester C. Davis of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Anna Lord Strauss, president of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Eric Johnston, president...
...most talked about comedian in the U.S. today is a lithe, 33-year-old mophead named Danny Kaye. Unlike great clowns of the past, he does not wear funny clothes, fall on his prat, throw custard pies or even borrow ancient jokes from Joe Miller. His chief comic assets are a nimble brain and an even nimbler tongue...
Based on Joe Miller's jokes...
Antigone (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lewis Galantiere; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) was born of the Nazi occupation of Paris. Playwright Anouilh (pronounced Ahn-oo-ee) reworked the famed Antigone of Sophocles with a furtive and topical eye: Antigone's defiance of King Creon's edict that her brother Polynices' body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs. Not only must his Antigone hearten the French, but his Creon must not offend the Germans...
...Hollywood's bigwigs to its productions. It has tempted such performers as Sara Allgood, Dorothy McGuire, Florence Reed, Robert Speaight to act in them. It has had offers to broadcast over every big network and is now getting offers to televise. It has tried out shows for Gilbert Miller and declined to try them out for Arthur Hopkins. It has seen its homemade "musical biography" of George M. Cohan lead to a smash movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It has seen two other homemade musicals, Count Me In and Sing Out, Sweet Land!, produced on Broadway. Last month Lute Song...