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...good-natured fun, which had been getting scarcer on Information Please since last November when American Tobacco Co. began its notorious statement that the green on Lucky Strike cigaret packages (now white) "has gone to war." Information Please's Impresario Dan Golenpaul thought this advertising teaser in poor taste, told Lucky Strike: "You're lousing up my program, and I won't stand for it." American's truculent President George Washington Hill would not stand being talked to that way. Golenpaul asked to be released from his contract by Feb. 5, and President Hill released...
Instead, a city magistrate reported clinically on its bumps and grinds.* Then some of the cast took the stand. Said famed Strip-Teaser Margie Hart, wearing woolen underwear beneath a purple ensemble: 'T hold the curtain around me, sort of tease-like." Some of her further guarantees of decorum: a G-string, rubberized stockings, three safety pins, a "victory garden" of two strategically placed flowers...
Miss Rogers plays a Brooklyn ex-strip-teaser who unwittingly marries one of Hitler's smartest finger-men, an Austrian baron (Walter Slezak). Gary Grant is an Irish-American reporter who brings Miss Rogers to her senses, helps her to do a grand tour of wartime Europe. The pair are in on the kill of every European country from Austria to France. They dabble in espionage with Albert Dekker, and discover, at long last, that they are intended for each other...
...others like it take place regularly in Blue Network's Manhattan studio, but radio listeners to Gracie's first commercial radio series (now in its fourth week) do not hear it. On the air (Monday through Friday, 9:55 p.m.) Gracie doles out only a five-minute teaser-enough for "a song and a bit of a story." Last week, typically, the song was The Biggest Aspidistra in the World and the story about cockney Bill who was blown out of a window by a bomb, came to, remarked "Crikey! I got outa there just in time...
...seems like blasphemy at this serious hour in our country's history for the oldest educational institution to herald to the world that it entertained a strip-teaser and that the students indulged in stripping themselves," said the "Kingfish of Massachusetts...