Berlin Nightlife Amid Ruins Shows Grim Escape From Reality
The report details postwar Berlin open for theater and cabaret, listing 55 music halls and 32 theaters with 177 film houses while prices soar on the black market. Kurfürstendamm returns as Broadway, night spots skirt shortages, and venues like Henry Bender's attract writers and actors amid drab profits and risky play.
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New York
Broadway
42Nd
34Th Streets
Oscar Strauss
Offenbach
Pygmalion
Charley
Royale
Wien
Femina Club
Berlin
Bavaria
Vienna
Henry Bender
Paris
Montmartre
Bender
Greenwich Village
Telegraph Hill
Skit and censorship jibes mark Berlin theater night
Curt Flatow, 26, wrote a light skit based on Thousand and One Nights set in Berlin. The troupe jokes about censorship while performers mix humor and sadness, noting censorship cuts, audience reactions to music, and a tearful dramatic tale lifting spirits.
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Curt Flatow
Klein Erna
Audrey
Bagdad
Berlin
Rand Vizier
Schatzi
Flatow
Liquor Industry Shows Increase
Asbury Park New Jersey June 7 1946 Rep Joseph R Bryson reports to the World WCTU convention that the U S liquor industry grew from 3 5 billion in 1941 to 8 billion in 1946 amid rising anti liquor sentiment. He cites 12 519 of 20 469 U S communities holding local option elections to go dry since prohibition ended.
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Asbury Park
N. J
U. S
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Joseph R. Bryson
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World Union
Bryson
United States
WCTU
Jury Chosen for Treason Trial of Douglas Chandler
A jury, largely composed of businessmen, is selected in Boston for the treason trial of Douglas Chandler, former Baltimore newsman accused of Nazi broadcasts during World War II. Chandler used the alias Paul Revere in broadcasts from Germany. The trial sits in a federal courtroom near the site of the old North Church. The case arose after Chandler was repatriated to the United States when a return flight diverted to Massachusetts.
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Boston
Douglas Chandler
Baltimore
Paul Revere
Germany
Old North Church
Revere
Lexington and
Concord
Chandler
United States
Washington
Massachusetts
Chapter volunteers produce nearly 60 thousand garments 1940 to 1946
American Red Cross volunteers produced 59 796 902 garments in the period between 1940 and 1946, reflecting wartime relief efforts and widespread community mobilization across chapters and regions.
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The
American Red Cross
Oaken Gothic Chair Symbolizes Lords Seat in Parliament
The article notes that the true throne of Britain’s Great House of Lords is not the coronation chair but the oaken Gothic chair in Parliament, symbolizing sovereign authority at the opening.
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Great House of Lords
Britain
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