Hollywood News Lieut Col Donald Crisp Retires To Wartime Duty
Hollywood veteran Lieut Col Donald Crisp, raised to lieutenant colonel, retires from pictures for the duration while serving between London and Washington. He recently finished Lassie Come Home and plays Mark Twain’s friend in Warners work. Henry Travers replaces him as mayor in The Moon Is Down, and Priscilla Lane reportedly will not return to the screen. John How pursues naval prep as Rags Ragland signs off, with more industry updates scattered.
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Natalie Draper and Mickey Rooney Light Up Palladium Stage
Natalie Draper joins a dancing twosome at the Palladium while Mickey Rooney stags it, taking over the drums and having a lively bit of fun for the audience.
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Cedar Rapids Elks To Interview 130 Naval Cadet Prospects
Richard C. Jones, Cedar Rapids Elks defense chairman, says at least 130 men aged 18 to 27 are expected for interviews October 6 at the Elks lodge. Navy line and medical officers will conduct preliminary exams and tests, with no enlistment obligation for information seekers.
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Daily Theaters Schedule Highlights and Time Slots
The Gazette lists daily showtimes for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times and Marion venues. Feature Time includes Desperate Journey Across the Pacific Mister V A Haunting We Will Go Moonlight Masquerade Born to Sing The Shanghai Gesture etc with multiple daily shows starting at early afternoon through late night.
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Morris in Iceland Arrives as U S Minister to Iceland
Leland Morris arrived in Reykjavik as the new American minister to Iceland. He was accompanied by Thor Thors Iceland's minister to Washington.
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Broadway gossip and rumors ripple through Walter Winchell page
Walter Winchell reveals playful Hollywood chatter on stars like Fontaine and Aherne, Dewey polling, Stalingrad musings, plus light society notes. Merle Oberon visits wounded in Britain and jokes about Nazi kills unfold in a rapid collage of personalities and headlines.
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Hollywood Gossip and Army Gags Put on Stage
A string of showbiz and military notes folds through a gossip column. Burgess Meredith’s fake colonel taunt and a future platoon joke. Red Cross nurse purses searched at a White House gathering. stars like Greer Garson and Eric von Stroheim linked to army duties. broadcast bid tallies for a Louis Conn fight. Leila Ernst denying link to Eddie Nugent.
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Block Seeks 3A Enlistment Amid Forgiveness of Farnel
In 3A class Jesse Block pushes for enlistment while Major Lynn Farnel, who took public blame for the Nazi-arrow mishap, has been officially forgiven.
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Mister V Film Review Opens With Melodrama
The State theater presents Mister V starring Leslie Howard as Horatio Smith a mild English archaeology professor who infiltrates Nazi camps in a fanciful underground tale. Critics praise Howard for taut polish though note the plot sacrifices realism for entertainment.
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Aristocrat of Spies and Slow Nazis in A Haunting We Will Go
A film review notes Prof Smith outwitting Gestapo in a plot with Leslie Howard and Francis Sullivan. Mary Morris offers competent grace while Howard anchors the suspense as the lead, with Laurel and Hardy providing familiar comic contrast in a later scene.
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War Bonds as Thrifty Saving for America
A concise call to save through War Bonds. It urges readers to buy ten percent of each paycheck, framing saving as patriotic support for the nation.
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