Broadway gossip and wartime society notes
Walter Winchell era column items about Rosa leen Simpson and a Versailles connection. Clark Gable not in war films. Lt Bruce Cabot cleared of rumors. private romances of Nancy Dodge and Mary Brown. John P Marquand as Book of the Month magistrate prop. assorted society chatter including Doris Freeson and Col Willy Coates, royalties, and theater business tidbits.
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John Jacob Astor
Rosa
Leen Simpson
Versailles
Clark Gable
Bruce Cabot
New York
Nancy Lee Dodge
Armando
Lark
Mary L. Brown
American Airlines
Littee
Georgia Davis
Lois Andrews
Robert Spofford
Frankie Carle
London
Doris Freeson
Willy Coates
U. S. Mint
Chums
Cigar-Stand Gal Marjorie Massow Becomes Stock Player
Marjorie Massow, a cigar-stand regular at the 20th Commissary, has joined the stock company. Tim Durant, Chaplin's close friend, is producing a film for Katherine.
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Marjorie Massow
Tim Durant
Chaplin
Katherine
New Brentwood Home Cost and MGM Film Preview
A reader notes a Brentwood California home costing 40000 and mentions MGM film Two Girls and a Sailor praised as best musical in years. The Lake Placid club travels to the Army around October first and a kinswoman was summoned to Mr Justice Hughes bedside at four AM. The political note says the GOP faces a decision on continuing low pay.
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Brentwood
Calif My
Lake Placid
Army
MGM
Justice Hughes
60Th Street
G.O.P
No Evening Showings At Iowa Theater This Thursday
War bond premiere prompts no evening screenings of the regular bill at the Iowa theater Thursday. Marine Raiders will be shown at 1 15 and 4 10 with Gil der sleeve s Ghost not listed for the evening slot.
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Iowa
Iowa Theater
Cedar Rapids Theater Premier Free War Bond Offer
The Besglerene Ghost will open at the Bond premiere with free tickets issued with any war bond purchase. Frank Sinatra’s Step Lively will be shown, plus a stage show. Wednesday schedule lists film times for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Marion venues, with titles including The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Lassie Come Home.
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Besglerene
Cedar Rapids
Frank Sinatra
Gazette
Paramount
The
Angels Sing
Iowa
Marine Raiders
Gildersleeve
Puerto Rico Employment on Relief Projects in 1944
In January 1944, twenty two thousand one hundred sixty nine persons were employed on work relief projects in Puerto Rico.
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Peresons
Puerto Rico
Women of the WACs Forge a War Time Role
A wartime portrait highlights how the Women’s Army Corps serve in critical hospital work, lip reading, Braille, laboratories, pharmacy, psychiatric aid, ambulance duties, tower control, invasion maps, and giant switchboards. They labor day and night to speed liberation and peace, a new page in American history being written by these women.
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Women’s Army Corps
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Ann Sothern
Margaret Sullavan
Bataan
Joan Blondell
Marsha Hunt
Nelson Eddy
Charles Coburn
Constance Dowling
Walter Winchell
Man About Town
Teddy
George Sclater
Reno
Jean Mack Kelvie
Lorraine Manville
Rolls-Royce
Mark Hellinger
Brisbane
New Guinea
Marjorie Pemberton
Powers Fire Factory
Sherman Fairchild
Pat
Hurley
Demmys
Lucky Millinders
White House
F.D.R
Viv Kellems
Washington
Finland
America
Stork Club
Donald Mixsell
R. J. Strassburger
Pennsylvania
Social Register
Mickey Rooney
Mechanized Cavalry
Fort Riley
Kansas
OPA
Phil Silvers
Jo-Carroll Dennison
Gypsy Rose Lee
Hays Office
Manhattan
Zorina
J. K
Kriendler
Stork
TH John
Herseys
D Runyon
Rowland Field
Myrna Loy
Ben Hecht
Fritz Kortner
Agnes O’neill
Oona
H’wood
Celeste Holm
Okla
Zanuck Factory
John Wilson
Hey
Curt Riess
San Luis Rey
Ella Raines
Heather Angel
Dorothy Morris
J. Ee
Sullavan
Blondell
Charles
Rial
Donald Barry
Henry Hull
Rosemary Lane
Patrick Knowles
All
Myself
Evelyn Ankers
3 Stooges
Sing — Cartoon Mat
DARIO
Jimmy Lydon
Charles Smith
Henry Aldrich
Casanova
Joe_E. Brown
June_ Havoc
Or and Rae Pe Ban
Pat O'Brien
Robt
Ryan Ruth Woussey
Gildersleeve's
Harold Peary
Warner
Sydney Breenstreet Lachery
Scott Peter R. Faye Emerson
Victor Frangen
John Carradine
Bela Lugosi
Frieda Inescourt “Return OF the Vampire
Siam
Don Amecke
Frances Dee En
Paige Grace McDonald
Kuller
WANT
Ectrades
Enon Cout
Wilde Twins
Bonita Granville
Bonita
Andy Hardy
Hardy Family
Mr. Smith
Rialto
Marion
Tonite
Ades
Lulu
Iowa Theatre
George Murphy
Gloria DeHaven
Step Lively
Bob Welty
Lassie
Kay Kyler
Joan Davis
March OF
Wacs
Fighting Me
U.S. Army
Adjutant General
U.S. Army Recruiting and Induction Section
Munitions Building
D.C
Erry
Jim
Salerno
Wace
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