Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frances Rose (Dinah) Shore packed enough activity into last fortnight to exhaust two or three less dynamic individuals. She started work on her first picture (Eddie Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
...round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
Marines take it all with sardonic cheerfulness, with a smile or wisecrack. When the Japanese fail to provide excitement Mother Nature steps in. Last night there was an earthquake shock to spice the routine...
Tall, blue-eyed Ginny Simms, official sweetheart of 100 college fraternities, fingered the rabbit's foot Judy Garland had slipped her, flashed a toothy smile at a husky sailor, a slick-haired soldier, a plump marine. Blues-singing Ginny was introducing "Three Greatest Guest Stars in the World," as she emceed the premiere of Philip Morris' Johnny Presents Ginny Simms (NBC, Tues. 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) The three servicemen were allowed to telephone anybody anywhere...
...verboten durable goods, sales flopped 23% in August, are down 6% for the year to date. At this rate, department stores this year will turn in a better sales record than the mail-order houses for the first time in eleven years. Despite their wartime troubles, storekeepers can smile over that...