Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To torchy Cinemactress Alice Faye and "sweet" Orchestra Leader Phil Harris: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight...
...News replaced Pegler with Phil S. Hanna, ousted by Marshall Field two months ago after he had opposed the Sun's (and the Administration's) view on the soldier-vote issue. The News continued to pay for Pegler's columns, thus left him without a stage in the nation's second city...
Follow the Girls (book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis; lyrics & music by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal and Phil Charig; produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie...
...even Cover Girl's story-the one really conventional thing about it-gets in its way. It concerns the nightclub's proud proprietor (Gene Kelly), his one true love among the chorines (Rita Hayworth- and their friend, a clown called Genius (Phil Silvers). A glossy Manhattan publisher (Otto Kruger) sees in Miss Hayworth the image of her grandmother, whom he loved in his youth (Miss Hayworth is glimpsed briefly, more fully clad, in Tony Pastor flashbacks). He puts her on the cover of his magazine, Vanity. After that it is only a question of time before she bolts...
...with President Roosevelt and General Marshall. By invitation he came to the U.S., visited war factories, ate dehydrated food, sampled weapons and aircraft. What he asked for was shipped ahead. For his air chief, Washington assigned Cochran, who named him "The Man," instantly liked him. Wingate called him "Dear Phil." To others the pair was "The Beard and the Wing...