People, Jun. 6, 1938

"Names make news," Last week these names made this news:

The South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass, announced that famed Novelist Sinclair Lewis would make his debut as a professional actor there this summer, playing for a week in July the role of Doremus Jessup in the dramatization of his book, It Can't Happen Here.

At a swing concert in Randall's Island Stadium, 23,400 New York City jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders...

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