Broadway gossip and war era show business updates
A collage of show business notes from Broadway and Hollywood recounts advisers pressing Walter Winchell to speak, straffers at Time-Life taking side jobs, Song of Norway ads omitting Milton Lazarus, a film producer facing tax swindle charges, and various stars and productions amid wartime shifts. Includes Piper, Berlin, Rita Hayworth, Col. Romulo, and attendance forecasts as servicemen enter and wage-earner dynamics shift.
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Norway
Milton Lazarus
Chiang Kai-shek
Columbia
Rita Hayworth
al Jolson
Frank Carroll
Hitler
Argentina
Carlos Romulo
MacArthur
Air Program
Japan
Galveston News backs Dewey amid Texas ballot ruling
The Galveston News, Texas oldest paper, declares support for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. It cites the Texas supreme court ruling excluding anti Roosevelt electors from the November ballot and says anti New Deal Democrats have no reasonable choice but to vote for Dewey.
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Galveston
Texas
Galveston News
Thomas E. Dewey
The
News
Texas Supreme Court
Lone Star
Dewey
Partisans Release Mikhailovich Son
A Yugoslav radio report says Partisan forces released Draja Mihailovich's son after findings he was not a war criminal. He had been seized last week and reportedly wished to fight Hitler and now serves in a Serbian brigade.
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New York
INS
Free Yugoslav Radio
Tito
Draja Mikhailovich
Mikhailovich
Hitler
Youth Week Observed At Nazarene Church
The Church of the Nazarene on Fourteenth Avenue at K Street SW observes youth week with nightly services at 7 45 led by The Rev Mr and Mrs Wesley Crist. Special music by the young people is planned for Thursday and Friday nights.
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Church of the Nazarene
Fourteenth Avenue
K Street
Wesley Crist
How Civilian Production Prospects Now Stack Up
Washington report surveys postwar civilian goods outlook. WPB officials expect delayed but rising production in radios vacuum cleaners washing machines and refrigerators within months after V E day. Automobiles and large furniture parts face longer timelines amid tight lumber and parts shortages.
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WPB
J. A. Krug
America
Washington
No clear events in civilian outlook amid war warnings
The text reflects a general civilian view that in recent weeks and months government leaders emphasize uncertainty, warning citizens not to expect certainty as the nation remains at war. It notes officials repeatedly state the situation is insecure and unpredictable.
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Ae Castle
N. Brandwynne
the Waldorf
Cleveland
Brandwynne
Waldorf
Sammy
Walsh
Eral
Essen
Rotary in Europe Moves to Reorganize Wartime Clubs
Richard H. Wells president of Rotary International arrived from New York to begin a preliminary reorganization of 484 European clubs dissolved by the war. Philip Lovejoy international secretary accompanied him on the trip to London.
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Rotary IN
Europe
London
Richard H. Wells
Rotary International
New York
Philip Lovejoy
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Germany
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