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...Last week Chicago's Novena Notes joined in, announcing that in a poll of 10,000 of its readers (25% of them servicemen) they had voted Comic Hope the radio and film star who "most consistently violates" Christian principles. Runners-up: Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor. Least disapproved: Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen...
Heavenly Days (RKO-Radio) is that dangerous film from whose political propaganda the U.S. once proposed to protect its troops (TIME, Aug. 21). Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington...
Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll, goes to Washington, and is tossed out of the Senate when he tries to make a speech (see cut). Then the Army reversed its field and said it had not made up its mind yet. But it was firm on the rest of its bans. Army post exchanges...
Married. James Jordan, 21, son of radio Comics Fibber McGee & Mollie; and Carmelie Bergstrom, 19, cinemaspirant; in Hollywood...
...much like your husband. You both seem to take an almost equal interest in TIME and the news. You both vote gardening your favorite hobby-both say They Were Expendable is the book you most enjoyed last year-both report your favorite radio programs are Information, Please and Fibber McGee & Molly. But you play more bridge than he does, and you read a little more than he does, and your second and third choice books were Our Hearts Were Young and Gay and The Robe, while his were Berlin Diary and See Here, Private Hargrove...