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Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...band, though many people do, but other acts on the program should make the concert definitely worth-while. There will be two of the boogie-woogie boys, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, who play boogie the way it should be played, Ella Fitzgerald, who needs no recommendation, and Una Mae Carlisle, who does...

Author: By Eugens Benyaz, | Title: SWING | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Hazel Scott was mentioned originally, but fortunately was not able to make it. This may not be much of a recommendation, but Una Mae beats her on every count...

Author: By Eugens Benyaz, | Title: SWING | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

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