Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Friends of the Benny-Allen feud will undoubtedly relish the opportunity of watching as well as hearing the pair's celebrated ruction". Others must be satisfied with occasional appearances by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), who plays Benny's insolent valet, and the Merry Macs, a quartet of swingsters. As an added attraction, Miss Martin revives Cole Porter's My Heart Belongs to Daddy...
...networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both the battlers was FCC, oft cited as a possible arbitrator for the feud. Said a spokesman for the Commission : "We look at it more or less this way : It's just a quarrel between two business men over dividing up the swag...
...income from Paramount Pictures, which will pay him an estimated $200,000 for making a couple of cinemas. Last week, under Paramount auspices, Benny & Co. were shipped to Manhattan for the opening of Love Thy Neighbor, in which Benny and his fellow zany Fred Allen continue the weary mock feud that Allen cooked up four years...
...promotion of Love Thy Neighbor. Allen is now a rival of Eddie Cantor, who is handled by the same agency that handles Benny. If Benny should team up with Allen on a show, it would obviously do Cantor no good. Consequently the agency would dearly love to squelch the feud it once promoted...
...pity that the ASCAP-radio feud will probably prevent any of the tunes from staging comebacks. If it weren't for the strike that the networks are planning to impose on all Society-owned songs starting next week, practically any one of the tunes might become a hit for the second time in its life. The strike will be a blessing in one way; we will not be fed a diet of "America, I Love You," the 1916 edition of "God Bless America...