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...armed forces as scenes for his weekly Sunday broadcasts, put them back in the studio for the duration. Although willing to do special camp shows, fretful Jack Benny, after several attempts, had concluded that he couldn't entertain soldiers and the home folks from the same script. His advertising agency agreed, but its announcement of the disassociation raised a few eyebrows. No slacker, Jack Benny this week is right back on the Army...
...A.V.G. flyers were doing deed's that a movie director would reject, in a script, as too fantastic. For every one of their own planes lost, they destroyed at least 20 Japs. Their total bag neared 400. It was beginning to be not enough. With the Japs sending endless replacements, and U.S. replacements not yet in sight, A.V.G. was rapidly becoming a group of grounded heroes...
...Mexico Way managed to be primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...
Directed by Paul Anderson, who has taken charge of Pi Eta dramatic productions for the past 12 years, with the script by David J. Conroy 2L, and lyrics by Richard G. Dorr '36, who is now an Ensign in the Naval Intelligence Service, "Blondes for Defense," will be first performed publicly before 15,000 men at the Army training camp...
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...