Back Door to Tokyo and Other Motion Picture Notes
Virginia Vale reviews March of Time feature Back Door to Tokyo showing Stilwell’s Burma road drive and the hump. It highlights Merrill’s Marauders and Chennault with Victor Jurgens photo scoop. mentions Gregory Peck rising as a new male star and Ginger Rogers’ interest, plus Metro and Warner Bros. developments and castings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RKO
Gregory Peck
Clark Gable
Ozzie Nelson
Harriet Hilliard
AL Swonya
Paramount
Glamour Manor
Cliff Arquette
Victor Borge
Bing Crosby
Ministry of Fear
Ray Milland
Private Purkey in Rome and the Balcony at Venezia
Private Purkey recalls Rome sights from Mussolini’s balcony to the Colosseum and Forum with humor and habit of sawdust stories. He notes Benito Benito Benito and a scent of Benito, critiques postwar headlines, and jokes about Italian capture, Horatio’s bridge poem, and war news from Normandy to Stalin.
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Rome
King Emmanuel
Venezia
Italy
Horatio
France
Yi Ours
Osgar Purkey
Pfc. A
D-day
Normandy Beachhead
Snipers Rage Through Normandy as Pyle Reports Front Life
Ernie Pyle recounts the Normandy front where German snipers hide in hedges and ruins, killing soldiers as they move and forcing careful bivouac shifts. He describes villagers, a German prisoner couple, and townsfolk reacting with relief and goodwill amid the war's brutal small fights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bery
France
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Pyle Compares Wars Through Saint Sauveur Le Vicomte Ruins
The narrator notes Saint Sauveur le Vicomte is heavily wrecked with gutted buildings and rubble, likening it to Verdun in World War II context. A veteran says the two wars resemble each other, with bombs and holes larger in the current conflict. Main roads are damaged, hindering traffic and mobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saint Sauveur le Vicomte
San -ah-Vure
Verdun
Folding Shopping Bag Crochet Pattern Ad
Vintage advertisement notes a folding shopping bag pattern Nr 5746 with instructions to mail 16 cents and contact details for obtaining crochet directions. It also promotes a Cherry Basket Apron Pattern Nr 5739 with sizes and color design ideas as a kitchen shower gift.
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Fortable
Ginger Rogers
Metro
Carey Wilson
I. A. R. Wylie
Oakland
Greg McClure
Johnl. Sullivan
John L
Warner Bros
Connecticut
Barbara Stanwyck
Dennis Morgan
Sandra Lee
Susan Lee Taylor
Xavier Cugat
MBS
Hollywood
the Waldorf
Garry Moore
Elvira Smoop
Arbutus
Schmilldwidder Funk
Alan Young
NBC
EWT
Ronald Graham
Washington
Veneriz
Mussolini
Bom
Superman
Benito
Colosseum
Yankee Stadium
Roman Forum
Julius Caesar
Brutus
Mark Anthony
Dr. Anthony
Radio
Romulus
Remus
Elmer Twitchell
Orson Welles
Elmer
Orson
von Runstedt
Rommel
Montgomery
Stalin
Normandy
Ee Cee the
Hickenlooper
Ernie Pyle
Bizerte
Cassino
Barneville
Pyle
Sewing Circle Needlework
South Wells St
Chicago
Vparns Mo
Morolne
Willys
Pea
He Dixie
Mt E . Lee
GC. M. Coe
Ime
Phone
Pine ST
ST. Louis
Soretone
Sonik
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