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Music and variety filll four-hour all-star show
Music and variety filll four-hour all-star show

Music and variety filll four-hour all-star show

Date7/30/1947
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Original Toronto Star caption: Music and variety filll four-hour all-star show. Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster will contribute some of their more madcap moments to the big show which climaxes The Star Fresh Air Fund's campaign to aid thousands of less-fortunate Toronto children. The pair are included in a headline cast studded with such names as Mary Boland, stage and screen comedienne, and Frank Bring 'Em Back Alive Buck. Joint masters of ceremonies are that inimitable trio, Gregory Clark. Denton Massey and Walter Bowles. The show is set for Wednesday, Aug. 6, in Eaton auditorium, from 8 p.m. to midnight. You're sure of four hours of fast-moving entertainment, Seats are on sale at $1.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0088487F
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