Good Neighbor closes after one Broadway performance
The Broadway play Good Neighbor financed and directed by Sinclair Lewis folded after its opening night, setting a new low run with just one performance and costing about $26,000 according to Motion Picture Daily. Sam Byrd produced the show with Jack Levin as author. The Distant City previously held the season low with two performances.
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Motion Picture Daily
Lewis
Sam Byrd
Jack Levin
Washington Off the Record: Sumner Welles Profile
A feature on Sumner Welles, U S Under Secretary of State, detailing his height, dog Toby, long hours, diet, travel, tastes in music, and language about his diplomatic ideals. It notes his vacation, suits, past as Groton tackle, misidentified Englishman image, and quotes on reader demographics from John W Barndollar.
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Lucrece Hudgins
Washington
U. S
Sumner Welles
Welles
Toby
Mr. Welles
Mozart
Oxon Hill
Maryland
United States
China
Hitler’s war strategy contradicts its own aims
Paul Mallon argues Hitler fights Russia while Europe rebels under occupation. He says Nazi coercion backfires as conquered peoples resist, sabotaging operations and destroying Germany’s ability to win through force alone. The only path to control is voluntary cooperation, which Hitler cannot create.
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Washington
Hitler
Russia
France
Greece
Brenner Pass
Rumania
Norway
Ukraine
Byrd
Ickes
AEF
Africa
Europe
Napoleon
Pictured Young Actress and Short Forest-Ox Clues
A crossword style puzzle row lists clues across and down with numbers and hints. Entries include a young actress, a small forest-ox, words for genuine exclamation and more, mapping to Across and Down directions and common abbreviations.
Movie investigation dead as senators mocked in satire
Washington, Henry McLemore notes that the failed inquiry into Hollywood is mocked as publicity stunt. He lists absurd "vital facts" from the inquiry, including Darryl Zanuck, Mary Pickford, and Wendell Willkie, and questions the use of taxpayer money. The piece ends with a call to accountability and a Taps tribute.
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Henry McLemore
Washington
Hollywood Pictures
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Clark
Tobey
Senate
Senator Clark
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hollywood
Darryl Zanuck
Harry Warner
Senator Tobey
Mary Pickford
Senator Brooks
Illinois
Shirley Temple
Wendell Willkie
Jimmie Fidler
Main and
Oak
Bugler
Taps
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
France Faces Leadership Crisis as Vichy Regime Tightens Control
The piece reports on Pierre Pucheu's claim that concentration camps will rise in unoccupied France and public order will be enforced even if many are arrested. It analyzes Petain’s position, fears about a Darlan succession, and royalist hopes for a constitutional monarchy tied to anti-German collaboration.
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Pertinax Washington
Pierre Puecheu
Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Admiral Darlan
Germany
Verdun
Hitler
Airpower praise for wooden twin engined craft
Major A S Williams extols Langley Aircraft Corp Port Washington for a 2300 pound all wood twin engined plane with plastic impregnated laminates. He credits Caleb Bragg and Martin Jensen, notes no government money, and urges centralization of air defense authority amid wartime propeller and material innovation trends.
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AS Williams
Langley Aircraft Corporation
Port Washington
Long Island
Caleb Bragg
America
Martin Jensen
United States
Remarkable American Boys Under Thirty Featured in Letter
A Dale Carnegie IT column outlines young Americans achieving feats before age 30. Inventors Edwin H Land and Glenn L Martin are highlighted, along with Philo Farnsworth, Edwin Armstrong, Walt Disney, John Robert Gregg, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Charles Evans Hughes, noting their early accomplishments and ages.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Harvard
Santa Ana
California
Glenn L. Martin
Ricby
Utah
Mar
Philo Farnsworth
Edwin H. Armstrong
Walt Disney
John Robert Gregg
Eddie Rickenbacker
Supreme Court
Charlies Evans Hughes
Phyllis Turner a Trailblazer in Canadian Civil Service
Profile of Phyllis Gregory Turner, top paid woman in Canada’s civil service as chief research economist to the Dominion Tariff Board. She also advised the Wartime Prices and Trade Board on oil policy and rose from Nova Scotia roots to London and Berlin study before returning to lead the board’s research.
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Phyllis Gregory Turner
Dominion Tariff Board
Prices and Trade Board
Turner
Tariff Board
George Sedgewick
The
Nova Scotia
Rossland
B. C
University of British Columbia
Susan B. Anthony
Bryn Mawr College
London School of Economics
Germany
London
Dominion
Alfred I. Du Pont The Delaware clans dramatic maker of gunpowder
Marquis James portrays Alfred I. Du Pont as both savior and rebel shaping the Du Pont empire. The Delaware industrialist, a patron of social causes, inventor and music lover, built a vast fortune while clashing with relatives over control. He funded ventures, including an air conditioning idea, and left a legacy of charity and strong personal influence despite reduced power in later years.
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Marquis James
Andrew Jackson
Sam Houston
Bobbs, Merrill
Delaware
James
du Pont
Alfred du Pont
Coleman
Pierre
Alfred
du Pont Wilmington
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