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...Mistress Mine (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) brought the Lunts back to Broadway for the first time in over three years. It did not bring them back in anything worth a toy locomotive's toot, but long before the curtain fell, the glittering first-night audience had ceased to care. The Lunts, as usual, had triumphed in themselves. They had once again proved their magic in vehicle jobs, in turning pushcarts into floats...
...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
There are still large sections of the world where Canada means Eskimos, Indians and red-coated Mounties who look like Nelson Eddy. To right such misconceptions, the Government last week decided to toot a more unromantic horn. To replace the temporary Wartime Information Board, born in 1942 solely to publicize Canada's war effort, the Government created the Canadian Information Service...
Next day Ed Stettinius hired a hall (the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall) for $478.20, the bill to be paid by himself and team. Some 2,500 employes-clerks, decoders, secretaries and porters-heard the U.S. Marine Band toot out Colonel Bogey March and El Capitan and then watched as Ed Stettinius, with unflagging enthusiasm, presented his new assistants...
...keep youngsters under 15 off the streets, Quebec City imposed a 9 p.m. curfew, signalled with one long toot on airraid sirens (actual raids will be announced by higher-pitched wails...