Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire upper level of the spacious Copley Plaza ballroom will be transformed into a typical South American bar with plenty of space to lounge about and watch the many stage and screen stars perform during the evening...
...producers could probably have filmed a hit if they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia, than they had in their prime...
...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...
...Never Get Rich" is not worth so much in itself as it is as a promise of good things to come; this duo, with some careful handling, should work out to be one of the screen's most attractive and entertaining couples. Robert Benchley is mildly funny, though he seems a bit tired of it all. And there are a couple of good tunes that might, now that B. M. I. and ASCAP are buddies, find their way to the hit parade...
...Friday night she will be escorted to the Memorial Half dance by Student Union officials. Miss Montez, whose screen fortunes are rising fast, comes from the Dominican Republic and speaks very little English...