Broadway Gossip and Show Biz Notes from 1940s Press
Walter Winchell on Broadway features a potential A Place in the Sun title for Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Kay Thompson’s Where Are You Now That I Need You leading disk jockey play. West 44th Street theatre scene buzzes with Lunt Fontanne Pinza Martin and io City Music Hall piece. Prices rise as Backers of Death of a Salesman push ahead. the industry notes include O Reilly Notre Dame price hike, Parisian humor books, and a French actor photo book by Halsman. The column touches on politics, vaudeville, and a Miami radio announcer clip, ending with a note on Childs restaurants serving 26 million.
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Theodore Dreiser
Hollywood
Kay Thompson
West 45Th Street
Broadway
West 44Th
Lunt & Fontanne
Pinza & Martin
Io City Music Hall
Times Square
Radio Daily
Rinehart
F. Wallace
O'Reilly
Notre Dame
Britain
United States
Ida Lupino
New York Film Buzz and Society Notes from The Press
In town filming The Killer That Stalked New York and a Penn Station cameo hint. Sarah Vaughan tops at the Paramount earning 3500 weekly. royalties and court talks mix with socialite steel case gossip and park avenue doormen hailing cabs.
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New York
Penn Station
Aymond Moley
Newsweek
New Jersey
Sarah Vaughan
Paramount
Sarah
Ike
Park Avenue
Bette Davis Announces First Post-Divorce Film
Screen star Bette Davis revealed the title of her next movie after filing and dropping a divorce suit. The Story of a Divorce is set to be her first project returning to the screen.
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Hollywood
Bette Davis
William Grant Sherry
Boy Scouts Banned in Canton by Communist Regime
Chinese authorities in Canton ban the Boy Scout movement labeling it as serving fascism and imperialism. The report comes from Communist controlled Canton via the UP dispatch.
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Hong Kong
Boy Scout Movement
Canton
Cost of Living Edges Down in October
Government data show October as the year’s low for the cost of living with an index of 168.5, 3 percent below a year earlier and 71 percent above prewar levels. Food costs fell 1.8 percent led by a 3.5 percent drop in meat and related items while fuel and electricity rose 1 percent and rents edged higher. Industrial production rose 66 percent above 1935-39 averages despite strikes, with 1948 benchmarks noted.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal Reserve Board
Bureau
FTC Cracks Down on Ipana Toothpaste Ads
The Federal Trade Commission ordered Bristol-Myers Company to stop claiming Ipana toothpaste delivers dramatic dental benefits. The action, announced Tuesday in Washington, targets claims about superior cleaning and whitening and requires new ad wording.
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FTC
Ipana
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Bristol-Myers Company
New York
Ipana Ad Controversy Highlights Dental Claims
The report notes a censorship of phrases like pink toothbrush and escalations in Ipana advertising. It bans claims that Ipana is a dentist favorite and that Americans should chew bones and coarse foods. It also states Grand Coulee Dam in Washington as a monumental project.
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Grand Coulee Dam
Washington
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Idol
Fernandel
Philippe Halsman
Simon and Schuster
B. Baruch
John L. Lewis
America
Berle
Kirsten
the Palace
Walter Svenla
Miami
WQAM
Treasury Department
FBI
U. S
Neely
Childs
Athur Loew, Jr
MGM
Press and Standard of
Walterboro
S.C
Smoak
Monty Montgomery
N.Y
London
Blueblood
Greenback
Astor
Paul Lavalie
NBC
TV Mondays
Ralph Font
China Doll
David Winsder
Maurice Evans
Morris
Borden's New
Borden Dealer
Doan
Spiegel
Auto Supplies
Bette
BOY Scouts
Coats
LY Kiqkee
Philcos
Smulekoff
Philco
Revolutionary Fm-Am Radio
Wkco
Phileco
Second Avenue
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