Keaton in San Diego I Love You pokes fun at ocean dream
Old Master Keaton plays a frustrated San Diego bus driver who never sees the sea until he leaves his route and smiles. Filmmakers Fescier and Pagano discuss the spoof’s meta humor and a proposed big finish with all branches of the military. Hard-edged studio clash and Keaton’s offhand wit drive the behind the scenes tone of Universal’s production.
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San Diego
Calif
Michael Fescier
Ernest Pagano
Pagano
Universal
Metro
Keaton
Jon Hall
Louise Albritton
Edward Everett Horton
Eric Blore
Reginald Leborg
Hal Mohr
Nuteteen
McKenneys
Washington, D. C
Public Service Poem Sneers at Romance and War Duty
Excerpts from service men publications parody a moral lecture on sex and duty. A soldier retells double dates and USO neglect, then notes seven years bucking abroad as a PFC before a staff assignment and a joke about ratings freezing. The Armored News adds a wry scene of recruits marching and cheering locals who are staying.
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PFC
Mass
Sage Advice From the Army Comic Strips and Sayings
A collage of martial humor and snippets from the Army News features gags on opportunity, passes, licenses, and eavesdropping. Jokes center on a sergeant’s advice to keep jumping at opportunities, army misadventures, and playful banter among soldiers and civilians.
Radio Hall of Fame to All-Music Summer Form
The Hall of Fame show shifts to a summer all music format adding vocalists while keeping the Paul Whiteman orchestra. The 5 to 6 p.m. program airs on Blue and KXEL with featured performers and guest broadcasts across NBC CBS and local stations.
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Jpthe Hall OF Fame
Paul Whiteman
Blue
KXEL
Jack and
the Dame
Fred Allen
Eveyn Knight
Bob Johnson
Radio Programs Hour by Hour Reflect Local Broadcast Schedule
The page lists hourly radio segments and station names including WHO WMT KXEL WGN and EXEL with times from morning to evening. It names programs such as This Is Life Prophecy and music interludes along Basin Street and Lake events with multiple stations arranging the day’s schedule.
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WGN
WMAQ
WBBM
John Charles Thomas
Symphony
WMT
Life of Riley
Army Hour
al Pearce
Faith-Steber
World of Song
KXEL
MBC Symphony
Green Valley
Mary Small
William Shirer
Ball of Fame
Silver Theater
Gildersleeve
Jack Benny
We the People
Teees
Walter Pidgeon
Walter Winchell
Walter Hampden
Basin Street
Ewer
Fred Allen
Ewe
Bob Crosby
Young soprano Beil debuts in The Kissing Bandit
Hollywood stage notes Marion Bell a youthful soprano and MGM protégé of Robert Z Leonard will play the singing lead in The Kissing Bandit produced by Joe Pasternak. Beil, a St Louis native, was 14 when Leonard and his wife heard her sing and planned her career. She trained in Rome from 1937 until the war and has lived in Los Angeles since.
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Hollywood
Marion Bell
MGM
Robert Z. Leonard
The
Kissing Bandit
Joe Pasternak
Miss Beil
St. Louis
Leonard
Rome
Los Angeles
More Honors Come To Port Paulette
Hollywood star Paulette Goddard becomes sponsor of a navy fighting outfit and has a bomber named Paulette. Sgt Joseph Norton, a Flying Fortress crew member, wrote the star that their bomber will be christened Paulette. Officers of the fighter director center in the South Pacific request a photograph or a visit from Paulette.
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Hollywood
Paulette Goddard
Joseph L. Norton
Flying Fortress
Paulette
Fighter Director Center
South Pacific
P. S
Youth Musicals Deliver Mixed Charm in Angela Is Twenty Two
A review of Angela Is Twenty-Two based on the Sinclair Lewis Fay Wray play with Angela 18, stars Donald OConnor and Susanna Foster. OConnor stands out while the plot pivots on romance and a major’s disengagement before a happy closer. Co-feature Yellow Canary stars Richard Greene and Anna Neagle in intrigue and adventure.
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Hollywood
Donald O'Connor
O’connor
Donald
Sinclair Lewis- Fay Wray
Angela
Major
O'Connor
Angie
Susanna Foster
Patric Knowles
Richard Greene
Anna Neagle
Jinx Falkenburg Picked as Pentagon Pinup Girl
Hollywood reports Jinx Falkenburg of Columbia's Cover Girl and tennis champion selected by the Pentagon. Maj. William P. Saunders of the Army Signal Corps conveyed the honor from the war department nerve center.
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Hollywood
Pentagon
War Department
Jinx Falkenburg
Columbia
Lamour Honored With Road Names in South Pacific
Dorothy Lamour, amid Road to Utopia duties with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, receives a letter from Seabee Tommy Nicholy. He, from New Orleans, helped arrange Lamour highway on Guadalcanal and Lamour avenues in New Britain New Guinea and Kavieng.
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Dorothy Lamour
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
New Guinea
Kavieng
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