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The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.In an effort to have his passport returned to him, popular singer Paul Robeson visits The State Department in Washington DC, USA, and asks to see Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He is offered the return of his passport, but only if he will sign statement that he will not make any speeches while abroad. Robeson refuses, maintaining that his freedom of speech is not negotiable, that it is his inalienable right, as an American citizen, to travel freely and speak as he wishes.
The Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich, goes on
general release to cinemas in the UK. The film features an original
Cole Porter song, The
Laziest Gal In Town, which is performed by Dietrich.