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...standard-speed, range, comfort, power-the U. S. Navy's new destroyers (1,500-1,650 tons) are as much superior to the 50 "tin cans" given to Great Britain in the bases deal as a 1941 Cadillac limousine is to a 1908 Maxwell roadster. Yet the Navy was sorry to see its 50 old four-pipers go. They were pesky, hard-sledding, pitched and rolled in any kind of sea with the unpredictable ill humor of a sunfishing mustang. But they were ships. They were reasonably fast (around 35 knots) and they could still make...
...Tin Pan Alley always keeps only a jump behind the international situation. The preoccupation of songwriters with U. S. patriotism put three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were...
Died. Princess Maria of Greece, 64, aunt of Greece's King George II and of the Duchess of Kent, onetime mother-in-law of Tin-Plate Heir William B. Leeds Jr.; of heart disease; in Athens...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
...Tin Pan Alley (20th Century-Fox) is Cinema Historian Darryl Zanuck's latest peek into the annals of U. S. song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than...