Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen

by Maggie Davis
Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen

by Maggie Davis

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Overview

Lives and loves are intertwined in a novel that follows three women from the theaters and dance halls of New York City during World War II.

New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men—a gunner from a B‑17 bomber who is a national hero, a magazine editor uprooted from civilian life and attached to the Allied High Command, and the violence‑stalked captain of a Royal Merchant Navy freighter—find their destinies linked with three volunteer hostesses from New York’s famous Stage Door Canteen. Genevieve Rose is a beautiful Broadway star in an experimental Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that seems headed for disaster. Elise Ginsberg is an indomitable young refugee from Hitler’s terror. And Bernadine Flaherty is an ambitious, talented teenage dancer from Brooklyn hoping for her big show-business break. Against Manhattan’s wartime glamour, GIs fresh from combat in North Africa and the Pacific find themselves dancing with the likes of the Stage Door Canteen’s Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Food, whiskey, and clothes are rationed, and spies are where one least expects to find them. Life is lived for the moment, love is passionate and often random, and those with a chance at happiness make a grab for it. For beyond the frenetic blackout, the entire world is fighting and dying.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781497626607
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Maggie Davis, who also writes under the pen names of Katherine Deauxville and Maggie Daniels, is the author of over twenty-five published novels, including A Christmas Romance (as Maggie Daniels) and the bestselling romances Blood Red RosesDaggers of GoldThe Amethyst CrownThe Crystal Heart, and Eyes of Love, all written as Katherine Deauxville. Ms. Davis is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal‑Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubicam in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the department of psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two‑time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia ReviewCosmopolitanLadies’ Home JournalGood HousekeepingHoliday, and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who’s Who 2000. Ms. Davis’s Civil War novel The Far Side of Home was rereleased and published in 1992. Her romantic comedy Enraptured, set in the Regency Era, was published in June of 1999, and the following September, Leisure/Dorchester Books published her historical romance "The Sun God" in the Leisure romance anthology Masquerade. Her novella All or Nothing at All is included in the August 2000 anthology Strangers in the Night. Further information for Maggie Davis can be found at www.maggiedavis.com.

Maggie Davis, who also writes under the pen names of Katherine Deauxville and Maggie Daniels, is the author of over twenty-five published novels, including A Christmas Romance (as Maggie Daniels) and the bestselling romances Blood Red RosesDaggers of GoldThe Amethyst CrownThe Crystal Heart, and Eyes of Love, all written as Katherine Deauxville. Ms. Davis is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal‑Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubicam in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the department of psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two‑time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia ReviewCosmopolitanLadies’ Home JournalGood HousekeepingHoliday, and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who’s Who 2000.


Ms. Davis’s Civil War novel The Far Side of Home was rereleased and published in 1992. Her romantic comedy Enraptured, set in the Regency Era, was published in June of 1999, and the following September, Leisure/Dorchester Books published her historical romance "The Sun God" in the Leisure romance anthology Masquerade. Her novella All or Nothing at All is included in the August 2000 anthology Strangers in the Night. Further information for Maggie Davis can be found at www.maggiedavis.com.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One

The crowd coming up the stairs, from the black and gritty tubes of the subway and onto Times Square, blinked in surprise. A few stopped short. In the eerie dimness, everything on Broadway was there, and yet not there. This was not new, certainly not unknown, but it was still a surprise.

"Jeez," one of the sailors murmured, impressed.

Before their eyes Times Square and New York's theater district, the Horn and Hardart's Automat, the giant illuminated Camel cigarette sign that blew six-feet high smoke rings, the RKO, Paramount and other movie palaces that ordinarily lit the night with miles of neon tubing and thousands of light bulbs--even the band of the latest news that ran around the top of the New York Times building--was dark. Skyscrapers had suddenly become looming shadows. At ground level Times Square was shuttered tightly to muffle any stray spark of light. Even the streetlights had blinders in the form of metal hoods, and the top half of the headlights of taxis and buses were painted black.

At first, New York City had had no total blackout like the West Coast, which now, a year later, still feared a Japanese invasion. Or London, where after three years of war the inhabitants still groped through the pitch dark, except when there was light from fires set by German bombs. Eventually, though, there had been concern over New York's ?sky glow," which, it was realized, could be seen for miles out to sea. When Manhattan's skyscrapers were lit, enemy submarines could target Allied ships silhouetted against them, and launch their torpedoes. There were plenty of submarines out there: newspapers and the radio networks reported that Hitler's wolfpacks lurked as fearfully close as Lower New York Bay and extended as far south as Atlantic City.

The East Coast of the United States, the War Department decided, would initiate a ?brown-out." A dimming, rather than a complete dousing of the lights. On the island of Manhattan there were suddenly darkened office towers, a lightless theater district. Macy's and Bloomingdale's went black. Blackout curtains appeared at every window. Civilian Defense air raid wardens, looking for leaks, patrolled the night. There was a war on.

New York City did its part.

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