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...generations of clerks, shopgirls and other widely assorted humans have shuffled and spun to tunes from Pretty Baby to People Will Say We're in Love, Some danced with partners they brought, others with Roseland's mannerly hostesses. Stories about Roseland have been written by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. Millionaires have married Roseland hostesses, and superannuated dervishes have dropped dead on its dance floor...
Imports. Smash hit at the moment-and an exception to London's craving for escape-is Robert E. Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, with the Lunts in their Broadway roles and the play's setting changed from Finland to Greece. Many Londoners, finding its tragic story too close to their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company...
...Major Donald William Ingham of the Medical Service, Camp Crowder, Mo., reported 700 cases of rheumatic fever (heart disease caused by streptococcus infection) at two Army posts. The disease is also frequent in the Navy. Lieut. Colonel Irving Sherwood Wright, chief of medicine, Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., said that rheumatic fever cases should never be returned to duty; they are often germ carriers, always poor risks if put on heavy jobs. Average cost of an Army rheumatic fever case...
...them. He ruled out Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps. The collection includes the solemn, the irreverent, the rowdy. There is a long-faced hymn of high resolve by Robert E. Sherwood (Tune: The Battle Hymn of the Republic). Another contributor is Beatrice Ayer Patton (wife of General "Blood & Guts"), whose March of the Armored Corps is appropriately scored for pistol...
This was beamed to England in English five times on Sunday and Monday. It was not heard again. Franklin Roosevelt saw to that. Neither he nor the State Department, nor OWI's overseas chief, Robert Sherwood, had authorized such statements, which were hereby repudiated. Said Sherwood: "Regrettable slip." John Durfee, who turned out to be an imaginary character dreamed up by OWI, promptly disappeared from the airways. (Left were at least four other ghosts, including "Military Expert Walter Herrick," which OWI has found convenient for expressing semiofficial opinion...