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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully dancing De Marcos. Otherwise, harmonica players wrench the eardrums, songbirds ravish the mike, top-hatted Benny Fields suggests a crooner in a cinemusical about the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Vaudeville in Manhattan | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...gold mine. A pestiferous dog saves the situation-at least for home-loving Wife Sheridan-by exhuming a letter from Washington to the Continental Army (modern value: $50,000). As a deadpan caretaker, Percy Kilbride gets the lion's share of the laughs. While the locusts ravish Mr. Benny, Kilbride drawls: "And three months ahead of schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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