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...influence of Boss Petrillo's ban was limited to the popular field, where the biggest producer, Decca, had already signed with the union. Capitalizing on its capitulation, Decca last week put out a bang-up album of all the songs from the Broadway smash Oklahoma!, sung by the original cast. Other records of the month...
...think sentiment like that would turn your stomach. But blimey, it's marvelous." Beamed the Daily Mail: "Riotously amusing." Even the thunderous Times felt that it offered "valuable lessons to the English music hall." Overnight Irving Berlin's This Is The Army was a London smash...
Agnes de Mille, pert, energetic niece of Hollywood Producer Cecil B. De Mille, who has brilliantly mixed classical ballet patterns with the horsy folk-dancing of the Wild West. Her most fetching job is perhaps the dancing in the Broadway musical smash, Oklahoma...
...song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
...flyers in Britain related grim eyewitness accounts of the latest Nazi "secret weapon," the plane-fired rocket. During Oct. 14th's Fortress smash at the Schweinfurt ball-bearing works, Nazi fighters, armed with the new projectiles, soared to the attack in "layers" of 60 planes each. Said Colonel Budd J. Peaslee, returned co-pilot of one of the Forts: "I saw plenty of rockets. I thought that none of us was going to get back...