Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumed Dead. Leslie Howard (néStainer), 50, genteel stage & screen favorite; in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane downed by the Nazis...
...Stage Door Canteen (United Artists) is Hollywood's double-jumbo version of the kind of entertainment that happens nightly at Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen for men in uniform. In the picture a number of lovelorn soldiers and their canteen girls are deluged with an avalanche of celebrity performances that keeps pouring for more than two hours...
...penicillin is as yet available in only the smallest quantities." The A.M.A. gave a similar warning last week to U.S. doctors: though Merck & Co., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials to 16 hospitals, has ordered 100 times...
Julia Marlowe, 76, romantic stage heroine of 40-odd years ago (Sothern & Marlowe), was up & about after three weeks abed recovering from injuries suffered in a fall. Refusing to admit reporters to her Manhattan hotel suite, she sent word by her maid that she wanted to "have nothing to do with the outside world...
Curtain Raiser. At the very least, it will take the financial collaboration of the British Commonwealth and the U.S., on terms that can include others, to bridge the gap between immediate relief and long-term investment and to set the stage on which long-term investment can safely tread. This is the object of the tentative proposals of a group of British experts headed by Lord Keynes (TIME, April 5) and of somewhat similar proposals by a U.S. Treasury committee headed by Under Secretary Dr. Harry D. White (TIME, April 19). These proposals are in turn the subject of several...