Quip Tales and Public Notices From a Texas Page
A roundup of satirical items and reader submissions touches on Winchell gossip about Chaplin, Ava Gardner, and Howard Hughes, plus oddities like a Bull Hotel in New York and a Texas reader’s political talk. Editorial letters critique New Deal ideas with cow metaphors and local misread street names prompt corrections.
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Winchell
Chaplin
Margaret Hayes
Merle Oberon
New York
Howard Hughes
Millionaire
Ava Gardner
Mickey Rooney
Ritz Brothers
Myrna Loy
William Powell
Gene Krupa
OPA
Elinor Troy
Hollywood
Tommy Manville
Hollywood Chatter Highlights Coburn Rise and Studio Ideals
JIMMY FIDLER covers Hollywood notes on Charles Coburn’s breakout after forty years of steady work and studio attitudes toward age and character actors. The column surveys actors like Ann Miller and Rita Hayworth, plus industry quirks, shortages, and wartime studio plans and opinions.
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Charles Coburn
Coburn
Kings Row
H. M. Pulham, Esq
the Devil
Miss Jones
Hollywood
Tack Wants Housekeeper For Working Couple
A letter seeks a dependable person, possibly a soldier's wife or mother, to do light housework in exchange for room, board, and wages. Applicant should be clean and trustworthy. Call 5751 305 East Thirteenth Ave.
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East Thirteenth Ave
Story of Belgian Evacuees Described by Belgian Doctor
A Belgian evacuee, Dr Francois Dony of Brussels University, recounts the May 1940 night Brussels was bombed and Belgiums mass escape before German occupation. She traces the exodus from Brussels to Dunirk Paris unoccupied France Lisbon and visa pursuit in America amid Axis confusion. Mae West and Ted Lewis anecdotes appear, concluding with a nostalgic 1913 song reference.
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Belgium
Francois Dony
Brusselss University
Brussells
Dr. Dony
Germany
Dunkirk
Dony
Derioe
United States
Belgian refugee Dr Dony tours American campuses
The Belgian educator Dr Dony, once English instructor at Brussels University, traveled the U.S. lecturing to explain Belgium’s post war aims. She described Nazi atrocities, forced labor of six million Belgians, and family separations. She visited Oklahoma and Texas Tech, hoping to see Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon.
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U. S
Belgium
University of Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Amarillo
Palo Duro Canyon
United States
Hi Duro Canyon
Ama- Oo
Nazis Abandon Plans For Total Mobilization
Berlin dispatches report the German government revoked part of its total mobilization decree which had shut thousands of retail shops across the country. The move follows economic upheaval as the Ministry of Economics modifies the order and states no further shop closures will occur.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Ministry of Economics
Traffic safety drive nets tickets for licenses and violations
Police issued 25 tickets during a campaign to curb accidents. Twenty one tickets were written during vehicle inspections for defective lights, with ten specifically for lights. Four motorists received tickets for license violations and seven for parking after midnight in the business district.
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West
New York City
Deacona
Poke Street
Polk Street
M. C. Roberts
Texico
Roberts
Roosevelt
Mr. Roberts
Nawlom
Dirling
Burl Mayo Moon
A. J. Moon
Johnson Street
O. F. Crabl
Plainview
FE. Moon
Gilroy
Calif
Jimmie Fidler
England
Nina de Luna
Larry Barretto
George Burchett
George
Ramon Novarro
Clark Gable
Freud
Columbia
Marie Dressler
Will Rogers
May Robson
Guy Kibbee
Lionel Barrymore
Ann Miller
Ann
Miss Miller
Coast Guard
Oxford Dictionary
Virginia
Massachusetts
Mike Naymick
Cleveland Indians
Pacific Coast
Washington, D. C
Potomac River
Florida
Harry Cohn
Cohn
Colin
Rosalind Russell
Penny Singleton
Blondie Bumstead
Anita Colby
Mae West
Arthur’ Lake
Fece
Rita Hayworth
Warren William
Admiral Horthy
Cage AT Zales
Axis
United Nations
Tropicana
Mae
Ted Lewis
Chinatown
Moonlight Bay
Brussels
Pearl Harbor
Akron
Miriam Dieh
Donald Parker
Firestone
WLB
Washington
War Labor Board
Nature
Doan
Uncle Sam
The
Flpsi National Bank
Deposit Insurance Corporation
Oldest Bank
the Panhandle
Bas
F Pat
Pelstatt Brewin
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