Comedian Fred Brady to Guest on Charlie Ruggles Show
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports Fred Brady a radio gag man turned actor will guest star with Charlie Ruggles at 7 p.m. Friday on CBS and WMT Cass Daley also in the cast. Shows include Capt Ruth Straub honored on Freedom of Opportunity at 7 30 p.m. and Service to the Front salute. Various acts follow on CBS NBC and Mutual.
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Jred Brady
Charlie Ruggles
CBS
WMT
Cass Daley
Carlos Ramirez
Ruth Straub
Army Nurse's Corps
Legion of Merit
Freedom of Opportunity
Mutual
WGN
Quartermaster Corps
H. A. Barnes
Mildred Bailey
Jack and
Dame
Peter Lorre
Lucille Manners
Meet Your Navy
KXEL
Arene
Moore-Durante Oe
Radio Schedule Highlights From August 32 1944
A dense listing of stations KXEL WMT WHO WGN and others outlines hourly programs for a Saturday schedule in 1944. It catalogues news, music, dramas and features across multiple times, naming programs and hosts such as Jim Baker and Lucille Ma’ners.
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WHO
WMT
WGN
KXEL
Zelda Tamwie
Dreler
WGN Reveille
Shelley
WMT Melodiers
Grant Gross
Owen Cowboys
Ava Johnson
WHO Better Farms
WGN Plano
Ander
Alus
L. Murray
Music Mart
WHO Music Room
Dan Kxel
Amn
Melody
Nancy Martin
R. Hughes
Ots
Sheridan
London
America
Casey
WGN Navy Board
EL Concert
Dixon
Curt Massey
Wismer
WMT World Today
Johnny Betts
Henderson
Sailor Daniel Buchanan Dead After Train Strike Near Tama
Navy officials probe the death of Daniel Buchanan seaman first class struck by a Milwaukee train three miles west of Tama. Seven sailors remain jailed in Polk county for questioning as others are released. Coroner W H Jones questions whether his body was on the tracks by walking, being hit, or thrown from a prior train.
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Des Moines
Navy
Daniel Buchanan
Tama
Polk County
W. H. Jones
Tama County
Buchanan
Clare Luce Attacks New Deal Bureaucrats in Nomination Speech
Greenwich Connecticut reporter notes Rep. Clare Boothe Luce using colorful phrasing to condemn New Deal bureaucrats during her acceptance of the Republican renomination. She praises delegates with applause and labels Roosevelt as a super duper cultured political boss and claims 50,000 American Communists have gone underground into the Democratic party.
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Greenwich
Germans Shoot Own Officers to Enable Surrender
German troops began shooting their own officers today to enable surrender as American troops closed on St Malo. Commanded by Col. von Aurach, the fortress held out in the harbor while fighters stormed the port and liberated the city after a four day siege.
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ST. Malo
France
von Auroch
Stalingrad
Berlin
Todt Organization
T. C. Roberts
West Hartford
Conn
Capt. Roberts
White
Victoria Hotel
Herbert H. Hauge
Des Moines
Cherbourg
J. M. Alexander
Garth Road
Scarsdale
N. Y
Hollywood News: Hersholt Joins Lesser and More
Geraldine Fitzgerald shines as Edith Galt in a Wilde era style note. Jean Hersholt to join Sol Lesser as partner while remaining in Dr. Christian. Lesser’s slate includes Three’s A Family Zan Tarzan Civilian Clothes and Crazy to Dance. Natwick to play Mrs Minnett in The Enchanted Cottage. Oscar Homolka a new father nine pounds. Conselman Sr prisoner of war. Bennett in town to finish Paris Underground. Darnell heads to Mexico City for a new project.
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Tollywood
INS
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Edith Galt
Woodrow Wilson
Jack Warner
Darryl Zanuck
Jean Hersholt
Sol Lesser
Lesser
Jean
Dr. Christian
Bobby
Socks
Nildred Natwick
Clifton Webb
Mrs Minnett
Aas Hoes
Hollywood
Oscar Homolltas
Bill Conselman Jr
Constance Bennett
Paris
New York
Linda Darnell
Mexico City
Heaviest Street Fighting North of St Malo
Allied troops report the heaviest street fighting seen as they clear German positions north of St Malo. French volunteers under a French army captain fight snipers amid dugouts, pillboxes, machine gun posts, and strongpoints. The St Malo garrison is estimated at about 10 000 men.
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St. Malo
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Capt. Roberts
Avranches
Harry Downard
San Diego
Calif
Friday Theater Schedule Highlights and Film List
The Gazette lists Friday showtimes from Paramount, Iowa, State, Palace, Rialto and Marion venues. Notable titles include Going My Way, The Hour Before the Dawn, Louisiana Hayride, Ladies Courageous, Her Primitive Man, Princess O Rourke, Tunisian Victory, Land Beyond the Law, Sailor's Holiday, The North Star, George Washington Slept Here, Four Jills in a Jeep and Shrine of Victory with multiple daily screenings and short subjects.
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Gazette
Paramount
Iowa
Louisiana
North Star
George Washington
Marion
Shrine of Victory
Veronica's Sweet Slinky Villain in Iowa Dawn Feature
A Paramount melodrama based on Somerset Maugham narrates Veronica Lake as a scheming survivor amid wartime England. Franchot Tone leads as a conscientious objector turned teacher, with John Sutton as an unhappy RAF brother and Henry Stephenson as a retired brass hat. The film traces Lake’s marriage to Tone to avoid evacuation and signal a camouflaged airfield, ending with Tone learning he can kill if needed.
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Somerset Maugham
Veronica Lake
Iowa
Deanna Durbin
der Fuehrer
Veronica
Franchot Tone
England
Hitler
John Sutton
R.A.F
Henry Stephenson
Sutton
Switzerland
Tone
Luftwaffe
Bernhardt
Maugham
Dora Bruckmann
David Leland
Judy Canova Appearance Noted in Second Feature
Gene Farmer comments on Judy Canova’s second feature, noting audience expectations depend on view of Canova. The remark frames the film program tone without asserting value.
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Judy Canova
Gene Farmer
Wars Miss Young Featured in Film At State Theater
At the State Theater Universal offers Ladies Courageous with Loretta Young Geraldine Fitzgerald and Diana Barrymore focusing on the women of the Wafs. The plot follows their bid for army recognition and overseas ferrying duties with a romance angle and a comeback of Loretta Young as the war commanding officer.
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Miss Young
State Theater
Universal
Wafs
Wasps
Loretta Young
Women’s Auxiliary
Army
Loretta
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Pacific
Miss Fitzgerald
Hollywood Flapper Cast Shines In A Capricious Skit
The piece lists a lively cast including Diana Bar rymore as Waf, Lois Collier as Jill, and Loretta's husband played by Phil lip Terry. Co feature is Her Primitive Man. Notable names include Robert Paige Louise Allbritton Robert Benchley Edward Horton and Helen Broderick. The article teases a chaotic yet entertaining outcome.
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Diana Barrymore
Lois Collier
Jill
Phillip Terry
Loretta
Hollywood
Robert Paige
Louise Allbritton
Robert Benchley
Edward Everett Horton
Helen Broderick
Paige Portrayed as Man Eating Native Figure
A fragment mentions Paige running about and being cast as a man eating native from an unidentified place, attributed to Na dine Subotnik.
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Paige
Heaven Knows Where
Nadine Subotnik
Russian Amnesty Offered to Poles
Radio Moscow announced in a Friday broadcast that the Soviet Union was granting amnesty to Polish citizens sentenced for crimes committed on Soviet soil. The move signals a potential thaw in wartime hostilities and could affect a number of Polish residents serving sentences in Soviet camps.
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London
Radio Moscow
Sovet Union
Polis
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Heatter
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Exel
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Pao
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Mindanao
Caroline
Range
Ladies Courageous
O’rourke
Rialto
Complex Shoes
First Avenue NE
Paramount Picture
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Town Theater
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Louise Allbrit
Yip Ewe
Ger AP Ald Fitzger
Anne Diana
J. Bigs
Time Magazine
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Life’ Magazine
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Snookum Russell
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Percy Kilbride
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Rial
Dick Foran
Arthur Lake
Jane Lawrence
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