OWI Filming on U.S. Campus Depicts Iowa Life
The Office of War Information cameras document Iowa campus life for a 30 minute film titled Freedom to Learn. Production by Sheldon Dick and LeRoy Robbins covers University of Iowa classes, activities, and allied institutions with shoots at Iowa State College and other state sites.
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Gazette
Owa City
Iowa
Office of War Information
University of Iowa
Corpus
Bureau of Motion Pictures
OWI
Sheldon Dick
LeRoy Robbins
Iowa State College
Ames
Mary Forslund
Sioux Falls
S. D
Mary
Wendell Otey
S.U.I
Iowa City
Walter Sacks
MacBride Hall
Paramount Continued From Page Four Reviews Dream Sketches
The film stars Ray Milland as an advertising manager in Ginger’s magazine with Warner Baxter and Jon Hall in key roles. Mischa Auer appears in a farce part as a fashion photographer. The story follows a woman’s dreams to break repressions aided by a Fredosnaiyat figure and features three color dream sequences and the song Suddenly It Spring. Mitchel Lejsen directed and produced the picture.
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Fredosnaiyat
Ray Milland
Ginger
Warner Baxter
Jon Hall
Mischa Auer
Milland
Ginger’s Magazine
Baxter
Hall
Auer
Mitchel Lejsen
Lanchaster stars in The Lady of the Monster at local theater
The program features Elsa Lanchaster Gordon liver Lenore Aubert in a mystery drama about ending the war by killing Hitler titled The Lady of the Monster. Vera Tuba Ralston Eric von Stroheim Richard Arlen head the cast in a south shore mansion setting with other players including Nash Blackmer Vinson. A second feature The Curse of the Cat People stars Simone Kent Smith Jane Randolph Ann Carter.
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Elsa Lanchaster
Gordon Liver
Lenore Aubert
Hitler
Miss Lanchester
Berlin
Fea
Vera Tuba Ralston
Eric von Stroheim
Richard
Arlen
Southst
Ry Nash
Sidney Blackmer
Jen Vinson
Simone
Kent Smith
Jane Ranh
Iittle
Ann Carter
Last Bus to Camp and Wartime Humour
A set of humorous wartime verses and quips from service newspapers recounts grim relief and comic relief aboard a crowded bus back to camp Fort Devens Fort Sill Port Belvoir Fort Niagara Patterson Field Camp Edwards and other posts. The pieces lampoon barbers, guard duties, draft boards and aboard ship life through light verse and mock dialogue.
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Calcutta
R. B
Walsh Fort Devens Digest
Ten Men Enlisted By Navy Recruiters
Cedar Rapids navy recruiting station reports enlistments of ten men on Saturday. Two join the regular navy and eight enter the naval reserve. Names include Helmer E. Peterson and Robert Rick among others, with addresses in Cedar Rapids and nearby towns.
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Navy
Naval Reserve
Cedar Rapids
Helmer E. Peterson
Fourteenth Avenue
Robert R.rick
Thirty-third Street
Robert
A Avenue
Charlies F. Faber
Eleventh Street
Tack ¥. Mills
Tenth Street
Duane
HK. Sarena Ety
Seventeenth Street
Bert.l. Stewart
Springville
Hal Js Cross
Riverside
Walter J. Peinharst
Grande Avenue
Kenneth K. Coon
Eighth Avenue
Doctor Finds Baxter's Legs Er Piquant
Hollywood gossip notes Anne Baxter visits psychiatrist Dr William A Dashiell to discuss portraying a mentally ill seductress in Guest in the House. They discuss nerve fear breathing and heart trouble as therapy for acting the part. Baxter plans to seduce and impress a lover on screen while the doctor considers observing a pivotal scene.
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Hollywood
Anne Baxter
MacPherson
Miss Baxter
United Artists
Evelyn
William A. Dashiell
Beverly Hills
Dashiell
Dr. Dashiell
Bellaire Returns to Cedar Rapids for Japs Talk
Tokyo correspondent for United Press and former seven month Japanese prisoner Robert Bellaire will speak at the Paramount Theater Cedar Rapids on Thursday evening May 4. This will be his second Cedar Rapids appearance sponsored by the Paramount and WMT with reserved seating available at the box office.
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Robert Bellaire
Tokyo
United Press
Pearl Harbor
Paramount Theater
Bellaire
Cedar, Rapids
Executives Club
United States
WMT
Paramount Box
Radio Iowa Singer to Be Contestant On Hour of Charm
Iowa singer Miss Marjorie Christiansen of Ringsted competes as a leading hopeful in NBC and WHO hour long charm program 12 finalists chosen from 9836 nationwide applicants with a 13 week contract on the Hour. She is a Drake university graduate and instructor in Des Moines.
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Iowa
NBC
WHO
Miss Christiansen
Drake University
Des Moines
Drake Conservatory
Phil Spitalny
Charm
Marjorie Christiansen
Ringsted
Will
Radio Schedule Highlights From April 1944
Compiled listing shows CHS WMT WGN WMAQ WEDM etc with numerous programs across the day. Includes Morning Exel Quiz Kids and Afternoon News plus music blocks, church services, dramas, and special programs anchored by WMT and WGN.
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WMT
WGN E. Stona
WMAQ
WGN
CBS
Star & Story
WNT
Pietsch
Hxel Village Choir
Andy Russell
Cathedral
Hollywood
Basin Street
Nazarenes Rxnel
J. Ficier
Foster
Legion
WMT Jowr
War Board
EXEL
WGN Spelins
Y . Bee
Exel Lutheran Us
Yue
West
Jim
Sim
John Thomas
Church of A
WMT Philharmo
WGN Giseo el
WGN Horizons
Kael al Pearce
WHO Farm News
Mornership
Frollos
Tor Viet
Ealth Webber
KXEL
Bondellowa
WMT Music
Lindiam
Allen Roth
F. Yoelker
Lora Lawson
Walt Pai Foyle Sen
Libby
WMT Melodiers
Pam
Rotindyne
Grant
Jack Berch
H.R. Gross
Nowa
Bhelle
Farin
Finchuille
Nora
Neeshan
Poe
Renter
On Broadway with Walter Winchell and Critics
A crowded column recaps critics and entertainers as wartime issues loom. Walter Winchell targets co-defendants in a Washington trial and mocks Gen. MacArthur boosters while praising Lillian Hellman and Lana Turner. Milestones and media plots touch Holly wood quips, magazine bonds, and anti isolationist franking abuse.
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Qmythe
Washington
Canadian
Smythe
Canada
Germany
Gen. MacArthur
Lillian Hellman
Lana Turner
Tomorrow the World arrives at Iowa stage May 15
The Chicago cast brings James Gow and Arnaud d Usseau’s Tomorrow the World to the Iowa theater Monday night May 15 after runs in New York and Chicago. Paul McGrath Edith Atwater star with child leads Dickie Tyler Joan Shepard in a tale of a German refugee as a kindly uncle contemplates turning him over to police. Tickets and mail orders are on sale at the Iowa box office.
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Lulu Mae Hubbard
Edith Atwater
Paul McGrath
James Gow-Arnaud d’Usseau
Love Theater
Barrymore Theater
New York
Selwyn
Chicago
James Gow
Arnaud d’ Usseau
Iowa Theater
Theron Bamberger
Dickie Tyler
Joan Shepard
McGrath
Miss Atwater
Gertrude Lawrence
Elisabeth Neumann
Wayne Nunn
Harlan Stone
Ed=ward
Donald Tappa
Elliott Nug
South Side News CSA Drill Team Meets for Anniversary Events
The 28 member CSA women's drill team participates in the 90th anniversary program of P J Safarik CSA lodge in Iowa City this afternoon and will initiate over 50 members at Vining on Sunday May 21 into Karel Jones and Corn Belt lodges. Czech Reading Society meets Wednesday evening at the library with a social hour to follow. Sdruzeni Ceskych Spolku meets Thursday evening at ZCBJ lodge rooms with a Coe College speaker on postwar problems. CSA Drill Team meets 7 30 pm Tuesday in the hall with Mrs Anna Cooley and Frances Hbota as hostesses.
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C.S.A
P. J. Safarik C. S. A
Iowa City
Vining
Karel Jones
Corn Belt
Czech Reading Society
Sdruseni Ceskych Spolku
Sdruzeni Céskych Spolku
Z. C.B.J
Coé College Speakers Bureau
CSA
Anna Cooley
Frances Hbota
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Edgar Allen Poe
Mr. J. A. Crowley
Aberdeen
Patterson Field
Quotes Magazine
Pentagon
Drum Fort
Niagara
Mahatma Gandhi
Howards
Draft Board
Port Belvoir
Spicknall
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Kotleire
Radio
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Joseph H. Ball
Minnesota
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Library of Congress
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University of Chicago
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New York Philharmonic Symphony
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Lorna Byron
Kositelanetz
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Morton Bowe
Anna Kaskas
Metropolitan Opera Os
Victor Borge
Bing Crossby
Mary Small
Blue
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Nora Martin
Guy Kibbee
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Adrian Rollins
Herbert Marshall
Silver Theater
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Jack Benny
Vancouver
Jack Cornett
Lord Halifax
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Dewitt Clinton Ramsey
Bureau of Naval Aeronautics
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Screen and Radio
Tommy Dorsey
Celeste Holm
Oklahoma
Larry Adler
Keith Baldwin
Virginia Bruce
Walter Pidgeon
Clyde Beatty
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bonita Granville
Carter and Bowie
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Oscar Levant
Fred Allen
Shirley Mitchell
Bob Crosby
Les Tremayne
Orquesta Tipica Mexicana
Mutual
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WMT Am
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Mary Ameil
Ann
Pueeimdser
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Kate Smith
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Jane Foster
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Helen ‘Tren
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WMT Port
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WGN Music Mart
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John Charles Thomas
N. Y. Symphony
Riley
al Pearce
NBC Symphony
WILO
Green Valley Eree
Aeenee Kae
Pees Axel
William Shlirer
WEN
Dorothy Thompson
Basin Street Toe
Hour of
Charm Who
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Walter Winchell
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Stork
Owen Mellett
Lowell
Spike, Jones
Bluebird
Eee Jones
U. S
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R.A.F
London
Mussolini
Frank Gervasi
Collier's
Pierre Vanaasen
Ree Eee
Vivien Kellems
Argentina
Willkie
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Henry Hope
Winchell
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