Paris Tennessee stories of soldiers wives and backstage plots
Hollywood notes describe the film Paris Tennessee focusing on officers wives and camp intrigue with Ida Lupino as the lead bickering femme there is also mention of The Song of Bernadette cast and Mona Maris background while additional tidbits cover Gypsy Rose Lee health rumors Alice Faye Phil Harris home sale Spencer Tracy Arizona trip Joan Bruce and other postwar cinema notices.
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Paris
Tennessee
Ida Lupino
Bette Davis
Ida
Napshots
Hollywood
Gypsy Rose Lee
Alice Faye
Phil Harris
Valley
Phil
Jack Benny
Benny
Spencer Tracy
Arizona
Joe
Joan Bruce
San Francisco
French Guerrillas Still Defying Axis
Swiss dispatches place a 6000 strong group of French patriots near Lake Geneva defying Axis backed Vichy troops while some units yield to forced labor in the Haute Savoie. Guerrillas live on mountain meat and milk as Vichy patrols seal villages and relief drops vanish.
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London
Haute Savoie
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Vichy
Chicago teen charged with blackmail
Federal authorities hold 18 year old Michael Cluhak on a charge of attempting to extort $10,000 from William S Barranco, president of Liberty Trucking Company, after a Monday night investigation.
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Chicago
INS
Michael Cluhak
William S Barranco
Liberty Trucking Company
UAW seeks housing or plant relocation for Willow Run workers
The UAW told the Senate Truman Committee that without housing for 54 000 plus workers at Willow Run Ford plant near Detroit, part of the operation must move to areas with housing. George F Addes said 89 000 workers seems impossible given current housing plans and urged federal agencies to push decentralization to ease war production.
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Detroit
UAW
United States Senate
Truman Committee
Willow Run
George F Addes
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Army Air Forces
Addes
Poet of the people remembers soldiers in war time
Edger A Guest writes of young volunteers from a neighborhood who sang and danced at homes before going to Africa to fight. He recalls bright eyed youths who died on a raft and notes how the streets are silent now. Families write to soldiers as telephone calls fade.
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Africa
EGAL
Logic Court
Pete Nuts
Ray Driscoll
London
Dallas
Jim Farley
Gov Bricker
Willkie
Joe Martin
Pleads Innocent in Film Extortion Case
Louis Kaufman, one of nine men indicted in a Chicago underworld plot to extort $2,500,000 from four motion picture companies and 42,000 union members, pled innocent in New York on Monday.
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New York
Louis Kaufman
Chicago
Charles King Stars On Iowa Stage in Billy Rose's Revue
Charles King stars in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Revue on an Iowa stage for a three day run. King rose to fame in The Broadway Melody and performed in vaudeville musical comedies and Rodgers and Hart works. Other acts include Aunt Jemima Showboat vocalist Walter Wahl mime artist Great Yacopis acrobats Panzy the Horse Sherman and Harry Meehan.
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Billy Rose
Iowa
Charles King
King
George M Cohan
Vincent Youmans
Rodgers and Hart
Aunt Jemima
Walter Dave Wahl
Yacopis
Panzy the Horse Shave Sherman
Mimic
Harry Meehan
Local Theater Schedule and Butter Price Joke
The Gazette lists daily Paramount Palace Rialto Strand and other theater showtimes with several films and times. The piece ends with a Washington note about Price Administrator Prentyss M Brown facing a butter sale freeze, and his wife joking about a dab of butter and a yam.
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Gazette
Paramount
Washington
Prentyss M Brown
Broadway gossip and political whispers in chaotic column
A wild mix of showbiz chatter from Walter Winchell style notes with names like Lois Andrews, Peggy Lee, Myrna Loy, Imogene Carpenter, and Bobby Wilson. Rumors swirl about divorces, tours, and inside stock shots of U boats, plus a quip about Harold Ickes heating oil and GOP politics.
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Donald Nelsons
Las Vegas
Lois Andrews
Jessel
Rachmaninoff
Beverly Hills
Peggy Lee Canary
Benny Goodman
Toolers
Mrs . Barbour
Boao
Hoo
George Moffats
William Morris Booking Agency
Iona Massey
Fred deCordova
Imogene Carpenter
The
Follies
Bobby Wilson
Woody Guthrie
Hertzes
Myrna Loy
Happy Creawds
United Nations
Moscow
Simone Simons
Capitol Theater
Medicos
Lucy Monroe
Wall Street
Davis Denies Large OWL Deferments
OWL director Elmer Davis said the agency never sought broad deferments for military service and only 46 OWL workers were deferred for occupational needs. He stressed deferrals are six months minimum for essential technicians and linguists serving overseas.
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Washington
Elmer Davis
Davis
Danceland to Host Spivak Orchestra Thursday Evening
Danceland ballroom will feature Spivak Orchestra Thursday evening led by Chaire Spivak. The lineup includes sixteen players formerly with the Glenn Miller band and other noted names like Garry Stevens and June Hutton. A second act from the Casino and Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, Ray Hutton’s Stardusters, is also highlighted.
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Chaire Spivak
Plass
Glenn Miller
Miller
Spreak
Casino
Pennsylvania
New York
Garry Stevens
The
Stardusters
Curt Purnell
Glen Galson
Hanis Walder
June Hutton
Ster
Ray Hutton
Nelson Riachle
Church Unit Warns Of Spreading Hate
A United States church group, the Churches of Christ in America, issued a statement warning that hatred is spreading widely. It urged action to prevent hatred from becoming the dominant force guiding United Nations policy, or mankind cannot achieve lasting peace.
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New York
Federal Counealet
Churches of Chast
America
United Nations
Evi
Philip Morris
Ship Output Sets Record in February
The War Production Board reported that the February output of naval vessels rose 21 percent from any prior month, setting an all time record. The January and February totals fell short of December’s output, according to WPB data released Monday.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
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