Roosevelt calls for doubling Panama defense forces
President Roosevelt said the canal requires a long range plan to double the planes and guns defending Panama. He spoke aboard the Tuscaloosa after inspecting canal defenses and starting homeward travel, outlining a wider defensive scope into Central America and to Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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Army-Navy Joint Board
Benny Goodman Band Dropped From Paramount Booking
Benny Goodman and his orchestra will not appear at the Paramount on March 5. Recurrence of Mr Goodman's illness forces cancellation of the engagement. Hal Sheridan, Paramount manager, will announce substitutions later.
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Duse Signed Roles Not Her Name on Works
The famed actress Eleonora Duse reportedly never signed her own name to her works but used the character names she portrayed in each role. This practice highlighted her modesty and strong connection to the characters she embodied on stage and screen.
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Eleonora Duse
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Rhett and Oscar News From Hollywood
Rhett keeps pursuing the idea of Rhett giving up the movies though his wife has embraced her career and even his own interest appears. Victor Fleming misses the Academy banquet due to flu while Clark Gable also declines attendance and will be out of town. Regina Crewe arrives to become Key stone Lincoln features writer, planning three pieces weekly alongside her personal service bureau. Moss Hart writes a new play solo from a Kurt Weill story about the romantic failure of women. Bill Herbert moves to Miami to handle publicity for Max Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels. Rosalind Russell is courted by Warner Brothers for Jimmy Stewart’s Three On A Honeymoon. Ramon Novarro calls in. he will fly March 2 from Baltimore to Rome to shoot three pictures for Lumen films.
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Keystone
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Kurt Weill
Bill Herbert
David Selznick Company
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Rosalind Russell
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Loretta Youngs Selective Career Shapes 1940 Plans
Loretta Young turned down a 300000 a year offer from 20th Century Fox and will choose roles in The Doctor Takes A Wife at Columbia The City with Gloria Jean and The Life of John Charles Fremont at Walter Wanger. John Wayne confirms Fremont pairing with Loretta as his wife Jessie Fremont. Loretta, daughter of Senator Benton, helps steer Fremonts political path.
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Hollywood Snapshots From A Random Day
Reports from New York and Los Angeles reveal a flurry of premieres parties and star sightings. Elsa Maxwell entertained Eve Curie and Rouben Mamoulian while Rosalind Russell bid farewell after the Grapes of Wrath premiere. Wayne gossips mix with mentions of Beaux Geste, Conspiracy, and On Borrowed Time as stars attend various showings and tables at Ciro's and Slapsy Maxie's.
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Vigil in the Night at Iowa theater stars Lombard
Carole Lombard leads the drama Vigil in the Night from A J Cronin with Brian Aherne and Ann Shirley. The film opens Thursday at the Iowa theater and follows a compassionate hospital angel torn between duty and family. The co feature The Marines Fly High stars Richard Dix Chester Morris and Lucille Ball, pairing adventure with romance.
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Lucille Ball
A. J. Cronin
Carole Lombard
Brian Aherne
Ann Shirley
Iowa Theater
Angel of Mercy
Theaters Feature Congo Maisie The Big Guy and More
Paramount presents Congo Maisie with Ann Sothern and John Carrol and The Big Guy starring Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper. Iowa stage George White's Scandals with Willie Howard Eugene Howard Ann Miller Ella Logan Ben Blue Collette Lyons. State Gone With The Wind features Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
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Ann Miller
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Ben Blue
Collette Lyons
Clark Gable
Vivien Leigh
Marriage and Mabel Show Forces of Personality
Mary Manners analyzes how Mabel’s independence exposes Frank’s expectations in marriage. The column notes that clinging partners may give way to shared decision making and mutual adaptation. A reader asks how to win back a rejected suitor, but the answer suggests unlikely reconciliation due to lost opportunity and his move on to another partner.
Better look for someone else and profit from experience
A succinct line notes shifting plans as the speaker advises seeking a different person and using the incident as a learning opportunity to gain profit. The tone suggests practical cynicism and emphasis on personal gain from past mistakes.
Dear Miss Manners Advice Column Warning
A reader laments her husband leaving for another woman and seeks warning to other girls. The response consoles her, rejects the bleak verdict, and urges that many marriages are fine and life can be happy and useful with effort.
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Painter or paperchanger wanted in classifica tion 11
Classified advertisement seeks a painter or paperchanger. Positions appear under classifica tion 11 in the Want Ad section with employment details and contact instructions.
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