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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1942
Page
5
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Louella Parsons reports Gen William Mitchell’s court martial and posthumous Senate honor shaping a new film directed by Howard Hawks. Hogan’s Los Angeles Open win sparks MGM screen tests and a possible Beckworth contract. Ulrich tested as Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls. gossip rounds out with brief Hollywood notes and odd fact about camels.
Review lauds the film How Green Was My Valley at the Paramount with Walter Pidgeon Maureen O Hara Roddy McDowall Donald Crisp Sara Allgood praising Ford directed production from Twentieth Century Fox. The Welsh mining family tale is praised for emotional depth and strong performances.
Carl Koehn recalls a verdant valley and a united family, finding joy in shared work and play as time erodes memory.
Senate Chairman Walter F. George proposes a deferred deduction plan allowing taxpayers to set aside 10 percent of income to buy government bonds. Bonds redeemable in five annual installments after the war would face a 15 percent capital gains tax on principal, with interest taxed as income.
The Gazette lists today’s film times across venues. Paramount presents How Green Was My Valley and short subjects. Iowa shows All Through the Night and Sing for Your Supper. State features Swamp Water and Sing Another Chorus. Palace screens Kisses for Breakfast and Dance Hall. Rialto offers Gangs of Sonora and Harmon of Michigan plus Hullabaloo. Strand runs Son of the Navy and Hullabaloo. Marion stages Naval Academy and Pirates on Horseback.
An eight foot shaft marks the grave of Mary Shaw Leader in Hanover Pa to honor the girl reporter who first printed Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. She walked 15 miles to hear the speech and printed its full text in the Hanover Weekly Spectator.
London reports a strong RAF bomber force attacked Hamburg and Emden on Thursday night starting large fires at both ports. It was a second consecutive night raid on Hamburg and Emden with other targets in northwestern Germany and airfields in the Low Countries also hit. Six British planes were listed as missing.
Walter Winchell notes Joe Louis and Mike Jacobs presenting the Louis Baer war fund check for 89092.01 while Admiral Andrews observes. Gert Lawrence, Jessel, Luce, Levant and Neysa McMein feature in a NY Navy Show preview at the Astor and Garden, with local theater folks pitching in. A Madison Square Garden incident highlights William Dwyer, once wealthy, now freelance in Florida.
On January 15 1942 R J Blaine was appointed administrator of the Clara F Blaine estate in Linn County Iowa. All debts should be paid to the administrator and all claims must be presented to the Linn County Clerk’s office through W R Watsabauch attorneys.
Polished gags drive the stage show Separate Rooms featuring Alan Dinehart and Lyle Talbot with Virginia Smith. Presented Thursday evening, the production leans on Dinehart’s fast delivery and comic technique as he blackmails for a suitable marriage arrangement in a tale of family dynamics.
The review praises Dinehart and Talbot for strong stage presence while noting a tepid audience. Virginia Smith underperforms as Talbot’s wife compared with the original, and Lionel Ince delivers memorable butler lines.
William L Brann nicknames Challedon Pete and owner Pictor Punky. A fruit from Latin America with a consistency and taste like a hardboiled egg grows on the canister tree.
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