Dance director Jack Donahue’s wartime cross‑continent tale
Juxtaposes a Hollywood dance maestro who taught Shirley Temple and many others with a European life in Oslo and London night clubs. The narrative threads a wartime escape to the USA, a British rescue mission, and broader gossip about figures like Douglas Leigh and Wendell Willkie, amid cultural vignettes and media satire from the era.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Alice Faye
Europe
Ziegfeld
Norway
Sweden
Old Country
London
Oslo
USA
Moncey
Buddy DeSylva
Jack Donahue
Panema Hattie
Futta Rolfe
Mark Hellinger Sees Movietown After Years
Mark Hellinger visits Broadway after nearly three years in Movietown and argues that nothing has changed except his girlish figure. Chaplin’s view on his marriage is noted as indifferent and he avoids publicity to protect his film. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo reviews spark Trib criticism as a music writer calls it a musical bore.
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Mark Hellinger
Broadway
Chaplin
Ballet Russe de
China
Rangoon
Burma
Lashio
Kunming
Britain
Japan
Germany
Italy
Indo-China
France
Blue Danube
Hitler
Russia
Balkans
Rumania
Michael
Danube
Romania
Black Sea
Turkey
Dardanelles
Asia Minor
Suez
Greece
Jugoslavia
Bulgaria
Weekly News Analysis Delivers Defense Focus and Global Tensions
Edward C. Wayne analyzes peacetime draft impact and national lottery as defense tools, Germany adjusts air war tactics, and Far East tensions rise.Editorial note clarifies opinions are the writer's and not the newspaper's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lottery
Germany
Far East
War spending and production push in 1940 defense drive
The article details the second phase of the national defense program focusing on procurement and rapid production. It notes tool shortages, orders swamping tool makers, and plans to convert auto plants into tank and aircraft factories. It covers Allied air warfare, diplomacy shifts, and a broad view of defense-related industry, power projects, and security concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Defense
Defense Commission
Wiliam
Knudsen
Commission
Roosevelt
United States
Wall Street
Far East
Manila
Rufo Romero
West Point
Fourteenth Engineers
Fort McKinley
Manila Bay
Meantille
U. S
Langley
Olangapo
Washington
Burton K. Wheeljer
Senate Interstate Commerce
National Defense Commission
Department of Justice
Wheeler
Joys of Childhood Toy Preview Reflects Defense Focus
Nick Tasselo six years old models the miniature army scene at a New York toy show. Critics note many new toys for Christmas mirror national defense program prep and feature guns tanks and toy soldiers.
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U.S. Army
Nick
New York
Mooney Daughter Engaged After War Service in England
Marsha Jane Mooney, 24, daughter of a GM vice president, went to England last spring to drive an ambulance despite parental protests. She is now engaged to Lieut. John K. McGlynn, hospitalised after shooting down 22 Nazi planes.
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Marsha Jane Mooney
General Motors Corporation
England
James V. Mooney
John K. McGlynn
Public figure clashes and defense updates in Washington column
A Washington column reviews Clare Boothe and Dorothy Thompson stoking war hysteria debates, Elliott Roosevelt's draft resignation, and Echols' pushback. It notes Price chiseling probes into defense contracts, and Knox announcing reinforced U S forces for the Philippines plus groundwork on a Newfoundland base.
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Miss Boothe
Miss Thompson
Shiner
Rourder
Dorothy
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Douglas Leigh
Wilson
46Th Street
White
Royal Air Force
Captain Udet
Genmany
FDR
White House
Wendell Willkie
Jammy Roosevelt
Willkie
Fimimy
Jimmy
Mac Kellin Johnson
Colin Keith-Johnson
America
Paris
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Holland
Belgium
Rome
Betty Hutton
New Crossley
Hendrik van Loon
G. Washington
Huckleberry Capone
Nomnally Johnson
Edward C. Wayne
Ews
Gniem
Selective Service Board
St. Lawrence
Henry L. Siamson
Stimson
Newton D. Baker
Alsace-Lorraine
Nice
Tunis
Laval
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Witler
Har
R.A
Canada
St. Lawrence River
Niagara River
Montreal
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Winston Churchill
Air Marshal
Goering
U.S
New Jersey
Dies
Texas
House
Friedhelm Draeger
National Socialist Party
Draeger
German Tourist Information Bureau
Transocean Press
Walker
Defense
National Parks
Hugh S
Johnson
Hugh Johnson
Jays
Beaty Waustun
D.C
Clare Boothe
Dorothy Thompson
Elliott
Elliott Roosevelt
Eliott
Echols
War Department
Air Corps
Frank Knox
Army
Philippine Islands
Newfoundland
Listinclisn
Burgoyne
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Jansen
M. W. Montague
Sir P. Sidney
Apatentor
WRU
Vale
Dean
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