Hollywood Gossip Cleanups Garbo Shaw St Joan Rumor
INS reports Greta Garbo is likely to star in George Bernard Shaw’s St Joan with Gabriel Pascal producing in England for MGM. Also: Bob Alda tests for George Gershwin role at Warner Brothers. Errol Flynn and Julie Bishop dine out. Joan Fontaine and Brian Aherne at Hollywood Canteen. Betty Grable’s hospital recovery pace. David Silva to visit Juanita Starke. Congressman Bill Rogers Jr. arrives in town.
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Theater Schedule Highlights Tonight’s Viewings
The Gazette lists tonight’s film timings across theaters including Paramount with The Moon Is Down and short subjects. Iowa features Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and The Gorilla Man. State shows Random Harvest and shorts. Palace screens Iceland and Omaha Trail. Rialto presents Counter Espionage and Gentleman at Heart. Times features Spy Ship and Lady Gangster. Strand shows Johnny Eager and Blondie Goes Latin. Marion runs Life Begins at Eight-thirty and Street of Chance.
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2400 Coal Miners Strike in Kentucky
In Harlan Kentucky 2400 miners at five mines continued their strike over employer deductions for alleged coal impurities. The strike stalls production in southeastern Kentucky as miners seek to end the practice affecting each carload payment.
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U. S. Sub Hangs Up Record Bay Bag
Lieutenant Commander Dudley W Morton and the submarine Wahoo set a patrol record by sinking eight ships and damaging one in enemy waters within a week. The tally brings Wahoo total to 13 ships sunk across two patrols totaling 69 000 tons.
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New Guinea
Students Aid Manchester Rationing Board Volunteering
Twenty honor students from Manchester high school will assist the local rationing board office five days each week as volunteers under an OPA ruling approved by public and parochial schools. Eight helpers will staff each weekday with two missing school days, while credit is given for the activity and students must maintain academic work.
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Director of Cancer Control Will Speak at YMCA
Dr Edmund Zimmerer, Des Moines, director of cancer control for the state board of health, will lecture Friday at 7 30 p.m at the Y W C A. A motion picture will be shown. The program is sponsored by the Red Cross home nursing committee with Mrs R K Stoddard as chair. Women in home nursing classes and graduates are invited.
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Wartime birth records boost Pasadena Vital Statistics
Pasadena's Vital Statistics Division recovered from red ink thanks to higher wartime birth certificate activity. In the last year the unit collected 4618 dollars for birth certificates and total revenue rose to 5877 75 dollars. Over ten years Pasadena saw 78 births established through the superior court due to missing initial records.
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Broadway in the Winchell column on vaudeville and stars
Walter Winchell notes OVIETOWN offers cash bundles to William Saroyan to secure manuscripts while Broadway shifts away from vaudeville to new forms. He observes stars flocking to the city for shows and vacations, swing bands drawing crowds, USO spending, and producers facing a theater shortage as promising shows multiply.
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Broadway Musings and Show Biz Echoes of the Era
A collage of blurbs on theater life and nightlife with digressions about Parisian Nazis targeting stage and screen, Zorina’s Met ballet, Missimo Chiang’s theater trips, and the noisy movie audience. It touches on actors, critics, publicity, and wartime social changes. Then stray notes on gin rummy, crowd noise, and Dorothy Lamour’s Stork debut.
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Willie Willis Reflects on Attention After Arm Injury
The quote recalls Willie Willis explaining that after his arm injury people stopped paying attention once it became familiar. He compares the experience to his grandfather’s hardships and notes the shift in concern as time passed.
Tired of Seeing Her Rejected by Billingsberg
A dialogue shows Mr Billingsberg refusing an offer to employ a woman at no salary claiming people are tired of seeing her. this remark echoes a memory from eight years prior.
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Ager
Wallace Pumps Handcar After Engine Stalled
Guayaquil Ecuador AP Henry A Wallace vice president with Agriculture interest takes an unscheduled workout riding a handcar to Cali Colombia visit. En route to San Miguel hacienda the gasoline rail car stalled forcing Wallace and his party to pump 2.5 miles through jungle.
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Secret Service
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Promotes Digestion Relief
An old fashioned ad touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy for poor digestion. It claims the liver should produce two pints of bile daily and promises relief from gas constipation and a sour feeling. The copy urges readers to buy a package at 10¢ or 25¢ and take as directed.
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Maynard College to Host Dean MacGregor Maynard Speaker
Cornell college dean J B MacGregor Maynard will give the commencement address with theme Guide Lines. The baccalaureate sermon Danger Lights in Education will be delivered by Rev H F Hein on April 25. The class of 32 includes Irene Ackerman Bette Allenstein Lillian Bartz Dean Brownell Onalee Coleman Ray Dallenbach and many others. Seniors highest averages go to Arlene Schlegel 3 96 Margaret Surfus 3 39 and Virginia Oakes 3 00.
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J. B. MacGregor
Cornell College
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Bette Allenstein
Lillian Bartz
Dean Brownell
Onalee Coleman
Ray Dallenbach
Delbert Dean
Gale Donat
Lloyd Wolfgram
Arlene Schlegel
Margaret Surfus
Virginia Oakes
Boston University plan opens accounting co op for seniors
The College of Business Administration at Boston University will allow honor seniors majoring in accounting to enter local firms during their final year as part of the regular curriculum. This move aims to ease the critical shortage of accountants in many business firms.
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