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Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (20th Century-Fox) generally hits the dirt short of the peg; but it clangs out ringers whenever Betty Grable is pitching. It is the loudest and most energetic Grable vehicle in some time. As the Horseshoe's fastest filly, Miss Grable socks out A Nickel's Worth of Jive, dreams of mink coats in the manner of not-quite-a-lady in the dark, misleads and falls in love with young Dr. Dick Haymes, and demonstrates the fact that motherhood's extra pound or so of flesh can improve even...
Profits were ½? a peg, paid by the Marine Corps. It furnished the lumber; heat, light, power and rent were supplied by the prison, all free. Hundreds of fellow convicts were hired by the convict capitalists for as little as 40? a day. In this capitalistic Utopia, with no overhead, the pegs rolled out, the profits rolled in. There was only one catch; the four hobby shop owners are serving life terms for murder...
Lady in Retirement. Perhaps Broadway's most gifted actress, Laurette Taylor has appeared there only once before (in a revival of Outward Bound) during the last thirteen years. In the popular mind, indeed, her name is entirely linked with a play she starred in 33 years ago-Peg o' My Heart. Actress Taylor played Peg (the work of her husband, prolific Playwright J. Hartley Manners) 600 times on Broadway, 500 in London, then another 500 in Manhattan. To her it was "the worst play that Hartley ever wrote. It was written too much for me. I had everything...
...patient list is getting high again and that means long hours of good work for us. Honestly, Peg, I've never really had a chance to nurse before this. Here is where you actually and gratefully thank God that there is something you can do to help. Even the least little bit counts...
...always wanted to take those Poles down a peg," the Tsar broke in, "but something was always tying my hands...