Virginia Vale Innys Simms Made Honorary of Purple Heart Order
Virginia Vale Innys Simms star of John ny Presents is named an honorary member of the Order of the Purple Heart for 1945 after touring veterans hospitals in New Mexico and Texas and performing 88 shows for wounded servicemen. She also helped a sailor propose to his girl, relaying the yes. The piece notes upcoming RKO film The Spanish Main features 20 ace stunt men as pirates in thrilling sea action for the servicemen.
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Inny Simms
Johnny
Ginny
New Mexico
Texas
RKO
Soup Ideas For Hearty Winter Dinners And Broth Richness
A guide to substantial soups and smart lighter options. Lentil, navy bean, yellow split pea, clam chowder, vegetable chowder, chicken meringue and liver ball soups are detailed with ingredients and steps. The piece ends by offering a meat roasting chart via Miss Lynn Chambers from the Western Newspaper Union.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Ill
Soups for Meals and Salad as Main Dish
Advice from Lynn Says on using leftover water from vegetables to stock soups. Add extra vegetables for flavor and milk to boost richness. Serve large salads with soup as the main course for a nutritious meal. Soups may be garnished with croutons whipped cream egg white grated cheese paprika and parsley.
Lynn Chambers' Point Saving Menu
Lynn Chambers presents a compact menu featuring Vegetable Chowder Buttered Rye Toast Jellied Grapefruit Salad Fudge Pudding and a Beverage Recipe. A concise dinner plan showcases simple, economical dishes designed to stretch meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Chambers
Harold Lloyd to star in film after radio success
Harold Lloyd has turned in a swell job as director host of NBC Comedy Theater on Sunday nights and Preston Sturges has signed him for a picture. Lloyd will continue in the shy bespectacled role that made him famous.
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Harold Lloyd
NBC
Preston Sturges
Lloyd
Overseas GIs View The Princess and the Pirate
Luke Cosgrove’s birthday cake celebration marks a Christmas screening for 82 GIs across battle areas who saw Sam Goldwyn’s Bob Hope star vehicle The Princess and the Pirate. The choice reflects Hope’s wartime popularity through personal theater appearances.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Bob Hope
Overseas
Motion Picture Service
Army Pictorial Service
Hope
Nancy Porter poised for Paramount musical lead
Nancy Porter, after strong showing in Isle of Tabu, earns executives' notice for a possible starring role in a South Seas musical. Marlene Dietrich met Sam Jacobs during a France camp show. Jacobs is Danny Thomas's younger brother who toured overseas with Dietrich's troupe last spring. Dietrich wrote Danny a V mail letter with the news.
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Dorothy Lamour
Nancy Porter
Isle of Tabu
Nancy
Marlene Dietrich
France
Sam Jacobs
Sam
Danny Thomas
Dietrich
Marlene
Danny
Jennifer Jones Stars in Love Letters and More Film Roles
Jennifer Jones headlines a packed screen career with co star Joseph Cotten in Love Letters at Paramount. She will follow with Duel in the Sun with Gregory Peck and Cluny Brown at Fox, an Ernst Lubitsch production.
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Jennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Paramount
Gregory Peck
Cluny Brown
Fox
Ernst Lubitsch
Walter Greaza Narrates Navy Training Film at Yard
Walter Greaza actor and inspector in Crime Doctor appeared at the Philadelphia navy yard to narrate a navy training film. He underwent the same FBI and navy intelligence background checks that he subjects criminals to on the air.
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Walter Greaza
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy
FBI
Secret Service chief joins war bonds promo on air this week
Frank J. Wilson, head of the U S secret service, appears on Mystery Theater to promote war bonds with eight operatives. Paul Douglas serves as Ed Wynn's Happy Island announcer and also works as Fox Movietone News sports editor. Marie McDonald restores her titian hair and lands a five year five picture deal with International Pictures featuring her in its Sonja Home film It's a Pleasure.
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Frank J. Wilson
U. S. Secret Service
Paul Douglas
Ed Wynn
Fox Movietone News
Marie McDonald
International Pictures
Washington planners push plan for 60 million jobs hope
The National Planning association promotes a 10 billion dollar World Trade budget to raise imports and attract foreign investments. The plan, praised by major media, stems from a group of engineers economists and business leaders who formed the NPA in 1934 to move planning from backward looking studies to decisive policy.
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National Planning Association
America
Congress
Washington
New York Times
New York Herald Tribune
Business Week
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Old City Club
New York
England
London
Wall Street
Industry, Finance
Bank of England
Donald Nelson
Board of Trustees
The
NPA
William Batt
War Production Board
Stacy May
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
21St Street
Washington, D. C
Brief Quotes and Wry Observations From Bankhage
A collection of short, humorous lines and musings on Christmas wishes, social habits, and everyday foibles. The voices touch on gifts, cigarettes, nail biting, oversleeping, inauguration nerves, rugged individualism, and the phrase turning in a victory bond as a costly loss of a goose.
Gay and Unusual Crochet Doll Dress Dishcloth Pattern
A 10 inch crochet dishcloth in red and white uses pattern No. 5809 described as a small dancer's frock with shoulder straps. It promotes as a gay and unusual gift and requests 16 cents, name, address, and pattern number for the complete instructions.
Adding Ancestors and the Diminishing Ancestor Count
The article explains that ancestral numbers do not double each generation due to intermarriage. After three or four generations the actual count falls short of the possible total, with ten generations yielding about 300 to 400 distinct ancestors instead of 1,024.
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Virginia Vale
South Pacific
Ginny Simms
Lynn
Luke Cosgrove
Ministry of Fear
Ray Milland
Marjorie Reynolds
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Bankhage
Bobby
Netee
Alam
Wells
Sewing Circle
South Wells St
TeenaLee
Gideon
Randma
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