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Despite a dearth of cars and evening dress, and a 6:30 curtain, London had its splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...
...splashiest and most exciting opening night in Federal Theatre history flocked jitterbugs, Nosey Parkers, Harlem, Cafe Society. To it also, with hands upon their apprehensive hearts, marched Gilbert & Sullivan diehards, to endure an hour and see injustice done. To it also-one of her rare first nights since her husband became President-went Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought the audience applauding to its feet as she sailed down the aisle...