The program for the March 10, 1942, Navy Relief Show, held at Madison Square Garden, NYC, and organized by Walter Winchell. The show was attended by twenty-one thousand people and included the famous first appearance of the "Floradora Sextette," with Boris Karloff, Eddie Cantor, Clifton Webb, Danny Kaye, Ed Wynn and Vincent Price performing in drag dressed as women and Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Eve Arden, Leonora Corbett, Peggy Wood, and Sophie Tucker costumed as men. Myrna Loy performed a mock strip tease, auctioning off pieces of her wardrobe as she disrobed. Also on the bill was Dick Powell, Loretta Young, Jimmy Durante, Bette Davis, Joe E. Lewis, Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Dinah Shore, the Rockettes, Bert Lahr, John Garfield, the Ink Spots, and many more. The show raised $10 million in bonds and inspired the Hollywood Victory Caravan, a bond raising nationwide tour by Hollywood stars. Includes texts by Walter Lippmann, Nathaniel Benchley, Robert Benchley, Ludwig Bemelmans, George Jessel, Anita Loos, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw, Robert E. Sherwood, and others; cartoons sprinkled throughout by Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Sidney Hoff, James Thurber, William Stieg, and others; introductions by Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy and Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews. Cover illustration by McClelland Barclay. Also includes photographs of the navy in action, lists of performers, organizers, participants, etc., and many advertisements by companies and individuals. The donation envelope is still tipped-in. Staple-bound; 92 pages; color cover and b&w illustrations throughout; 9 x 12 inches. Very Good paperback with a small chip to one edge of the front, a short tear and small chip at the crown, and a name in pencil to the front; interior is clean and bright. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX.

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Navy Relief Show Program, Madison Square Garden, March 10, 1942

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Navy Relief Society, New York

Publication Date

1942

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Paperback

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1st Edition

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