Radio Hall of Fame Show Attracts Star-Studded Hour
Radio Simms Ginny Simms Dick Powell Gilbert and Lamb join Lt Col John Burns on a 5 pm tribute hour on Blue and KXEL saluting Meredith Willson and featuring Paul Whiteman. NBC WMAQ broadcasts include The Eternal Light and America United with Truman Green Johnston Patton.
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Iowa
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Gil Lamb
Billy Gilbert
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Radio Schedule for January 28 1945 AcrossStations
Hour by hour logs show WMT WMAQ WHO KXEL and others airing sermons music news and dramas Sunday January 28 1945 with programs from morning through night including Bible hours melodious segments national and local acts and religious talks.
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Christian Ir. Excel
Pictseb
Kate Smith
Dock Henry
EXEL
Pearson
Lfries
WGN
Veteran theater man heads Pirates company in Iowa
Richard H. Burnside, longtime Hip podrome producer in New York, leads the R. H. Burnside Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company presenting The Pirates of Penzance on the Iowa stage Tuesday evening. Cast includes Kathleen Roche Ralph Riggs Catherine Judah James Gerard Bertram Peacock Robert Pitkin Robert Eckles and Mari Valdez. Tickets on sale at the Town box office with mail orders accepted.
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Hippodrome
New York
R. H. Burnside
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
Iowa
Burnside
Savoy Theater
London
Kathleen Roche
Ralph Riggs
Catherine Judah
James Gerard
Bertram Peacock
Robert Pitkin
Robert Eckles
Mari Valdez
Nostalgia Grips Hollywood Reporter as War Shift Looms
Robbin Coons recalls sixteen years in Hollywood from 1928 amid talkies to TV era speculation. He lists stars and moments from Joan Crawford to Clark Gable, Judy Garland to John Wayne, Carole Lombard to Mae West, and notes changing media with radio and television edging into the film industry.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
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Warner Brothers
New York
Mickey Rooney
Errol Flynn
Bette Davis
Betty Grable
Paulette Goddard
Lucille Ball
Virginia Mayo
Lynn Bari
Joe E. Brown
Long Beach
Legion of Decency
Mae West
Chaplin
Dodge City
Virginia City
San Francisco
Fort Worth
Dallas
Ay Francis
Carole Lombard
George Arliss
Leslie Howard
Bill Gargan
Marie Dressler
May Robson
Marion Davies
Estelle Taylor
Clara Bow
Rex Bell
Nevada
Doughty
John Ford
Gary Cooper
Will Rogers
Stu Erwin
Rogers
Bob Hope
Bing
Claire Trevor
George Fitzmaurice
Constance Bennett
Gloria Swanson
Henri de la Falaise
Thelma Todd
State Theatre presents Tokyo film detailing Doolittle raid romance
The State shows a film centered on Ted and Ellen Lawson leading to the Tokyo bombing. Spencer Tracy stars as Lt. Gen. James Doolittle, with Van Johnson as Lawson, Robert Walker as Thatcher and Phyllis Thaxter as Ellen Lawson.
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van Johnson
Thatcher
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