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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
4
A roundup of contemporary books analyzes America’s war weariness and Europe’s crises. Notable titles include That Day Alone by Pierre van Paassen and Women in Crime by Florence Monahan, with reviews of Radio City and Munich Playground, highlighting political analysis, social reform, and Nazi era insights.
Stars of the air waves pay tribute to donuts during National Donut Week. Notables including Parks Johnson and Wally Butterworth, Fred Allen, Isabel Manning Hewson, William E. Drips, Walter Thornton, Alan Prescott, Kate Smith, Quiz Kids, Frank Crummit, and Julia Sanderson participate across NBC CBS and CBC networks.
Nat Karson, a 32 year old Chicago born artist, known for caricatures and costumes, takes a major step into production work with the new Jessel musical High Kickers at the Broadhurst Theatre starring George Jessel and Sophie Tucker. He seeks to broaden his scenic and costume design career after years as a caricaturist.
Michael Todd, famed for Gay New Orleans and Streets of Paris, begins rehearsals Monday for a lavish Broadway musical And So to Bedlam. The cast includes Gypsy Rose Lee Dick Powell Ned Sparks Jed Prouty and about one hundred performers. This marks Todd's first Broadway project since Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson.
The new Theatre Guild play Papa Is All began rehearsals in an unorthodox way with directors Frank Carrington and Agnes Morgan taking the cast to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to study Pennsylvania Dutch dialect through records and a related lecture by Mr. Oswald. Leading roles announced include Jessie Royce Landis Carl Benton Reid and Celeste Holm. Harry Carey, star of Ah Wilderness at Guild Theatre, attended Theatre Assembly luncheon at the Hotel Astor on Friday afternoon October 17.
Oscar Serlin brings Ferenc Molnar's The King's Maid to New York with Sam Jaffe and Margo in lead roles. It is Serlin's first show after Life With Father, Molnar's first work since arriving in America. Robert Edmond Jones designs, Albert Sirmay composes music, Serlin also provides English text and direction.
Frances Bryan a seventeen year old chorus girl fainted with excitement after meeting Joan Crawford at the Barrymore Theatre backstage. Crawford autographed her album and spoke to her directly before Bryan collapsed again requiring an understudy to take the stage.
New York Times reports producers Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse secured Boris Karloff for Arsenic and Old Lace through June 15 1942 and then re negotiated a further stay with Columbia Pictures after a six week hold. Karloff’s role as Jonathan Brewster remains pivotal amid sell out Fulton Theatre crowds since January 10.
A new Broadway production The Man with Blond Hair opened at Belasco Theatre produced by Frank Ross and Norman Krasna. The story follows a young Nazi prisoner who escapes and seeks sanctuary in an East Side Jewish apartment with a cast led by Eleanor Lynn Rex Williams Curt Conway and Dora Weissman. Howard Bey designed the sets.
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