Foreign News: Mangeans & Rubles

Over 100 U. S. vaudeville performers have been booked by Gomez, the Soviet State entertainment trust, to cavort, tapdance, tumble and blow rubber razzberries in Russia this summer. Last week the U. S. State Department called attention to the plight in Moscow of "The Mangean Four Troupe," a hardy U. S. team who have barnstormed around Europe for some two years under the management of shrewd, brassy Hazel Mangean.

"We thought our contract called for the equivalent in rubles of $3,900 a month for acting in Russia." snapping-eyed Miss Mangean told Moscow correspondents....

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