Domestic Vessel in Shipshape Weathering the Storm
Mary Caseman and family illustrate frugal living to escape debt during hard times. The essay urges households to cut expenses, pay off bills gradually, consider moving or scaling back, and unite for financial resilience. It urges children to learn self sacrifice and families to discard excess to endure looming higher costs and shortages.
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New York
Daddy
Jim
Mary Caseman
Philadelphia
Casemans
John Caseman
Mary
Troubles Ahead? Kathleen Norris Urges Preparedness
In a wary tone the author warns war risks and rising living costs threaten households. Norris offers examples of others weathering tough times and urges careful planning to secure futures and ease anxiety.
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Kathleen Norris
Cast and superstition swirl around Garbo film
The article notes the cast gathering on the Friday the thirteenth for the Garbo film with Melvyn Douglas praising Friday as lucky, Ruth Gordon confessing fear of ladders and black cats, Roland Young bringing a china penguin to ward off the jinx, and Garbo arriving on time while Janet Blair joins as the younger sister to Joan Blondell in Three Girls About Town.
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Melvyn Douglas
Ruth Gordon
Roland Young
Miss Garbo
Janet Blair
Hal Kemp
Columbia
Joan Blondell
David Niven Made Major and Defends English Coast
David Niven returned to England to serve and has been made a major. He leads a defense squadron stationed on the English coast opposite France. In a letter he reports that 20 invading Nazi bombing planes were shot down over his sector last night.
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David Niven
England
Bing Crosby
English
France
New England Eight Million Yankees Invasion-Proof Film
The March of Time releases a regional film on how six northeastern states build invasion defense. It is first in a series and will be followed by segments on the Midwest Texas and other regions.
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March of Time
New England
Midwest
Texas
Blondie Star Penny Singleton Debuts In Cowboy Joe
Penny Singleton, famous as Blondie on screen and radio, begins her first film musical Cowboy Joe with Glenn Ford opposite her. A Broadway singer dancer turned film star, Singleton is best known for her nine Blondie comedies in Hollywood.
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Penny Singleton
Blondie
Glenn Ford
Hollywood
Himmler Office Reproduced in Warner Bros Film Underground
The office of Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler is depicted in Warner Bros film Underground with a highly authentic set. Earlier, Kurt Schmidt, once close to Himmler, secretly photographed the office and smuggled the pictures out before escaping two years ago.
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Heinrich Himmler
Warner Bros
Himmler
Kurt Schmidt
Underground
Memory to Sing New Number in Paramount Film
The Memory will again perform on screen singing You Cant Bresh Me Of Louisiana Purchase in a Paramount production. He has lately been noted as one of the funniest on the series and his Catchin the Draft segment remains popular though it reuses older jokes. Eddie Bracken also contributes several laugh lines and label gags.
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Louisiana Purchase
Paramount
Eddie Bracken
The Khevzars of the forbidden to have children during the first three years
A fragment notes a rule about the Khevzars restricting they must abstain from childbearing in the initial three years of marriage. The text is incomplete and offers limited context about origin or enforcement.
Device to Stop Speeders by Hook Mechanism
Denver R. King of Seattle proposes a traffic device to catch red light runners. The plan uses a pavement hook that rises when lights switch red to snag passing cars without pulling out chassis parts. King says the hook will lie flat under green and pop up to stop violators.
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Denver R. King
Seattle
King
Hap Hazard Radio Series Cast Set for Summer Replacement
The Hap Hazard summer radio replacement for Fibber McGee and Molly has its regulars fixed with minor weekly cast additions. Star is Ransom Sherman with Edna O'Dell singing and Billy Mills’ orchestra. Blondie on CBS leads in popularity per the Crosley report.
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Hap Hazard
Ransom Sherman
Edna O’dell
Billy Mills
Blondie
CBS
Crosley
Studio Notes on Casts and Vacations in 1941
Ona Munson works in Wild Geese Ceiling at Fox and takes radio vacation as Big Town ends for summer. Ruth Hussey and Robert Young star in Married Bachelors, a comedy about a young couple dodging the sheriff. Jane Wyatt leads opposite Dennis O Keefe in Week End for Three. Shirley Temple returns in The Shadow of the Thin Man.
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Ona Munson
20Th Century-Fox
Edward G. Robinson
Santa Barbara
Ruth Hussey
Robert Young
Jane Wyatt
Dennis O'Keefe
RKO
Shirley Tem
Evein
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