Union Pacific and Girl Crazy Headline Week at Princess
Barbara Stanwyck stars in Union Pacific with Joel McCrea as her love interest in Cecil B. De Mille’s epic of the first transcontinental railroad. The film features a cast including Robert Preston and Brian Donlevy with Akim Tamiroff as a Mexican railroad cop adding to the Western drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
Union Pacific
Cecil B. DeMille
America
Miss Stanwyck
New England
Park Avenue
Mollie Monahan
Mollie
Jeff Butler
McCrea
Washington
Jeff
Dick Allen
Robert Preston
U. P
DeMille
Brian Donlevy
McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
Fiesta
Princess Theatre
Maple Sugar Tree Reaches Peak Productivity at 80
A maple sugar tree attains its height of productivity at eighty years old, marking a notable milestone in its lifecyle and sugaring output.
Porters Star in Paramount Comedy at Grand Theatre
The Porters bring a riotous Paramount musical comedy to the Grand Theatre Sunday and Monday. True to Life stars Mary Martin Franchot Tone Dick Powell and Victor Moore as two radio writers whose boss disapproves of their work. Powell seeks inspiration meets Martin and the Porter family helps him air the show. The film features a three way romance and songs by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer including There She Was and Mister Pollyanna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Theatre
Paramount
Mary Martin
Franchot ‘Tone
Dick Powell
Victor Moore
Porter
Toney
Powell
Long Island
Hoagy Carmichael
Johnny Mercer
Filip
Pollyanna
No Railways Cross Mountains Between India and Burma
A concise note states that no railways or highways traverse the mountain barrier separating India from Burma, highlighting barriers to land transport between the regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Burma
Tornado at the Roxy Stars Morris Kelly In Wind-Soaked Drama
The Paramount film Tornado opens at the Roxy with Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly. The mining town tale follows a miner who rises high to win the love of Kelly's social climber, risking friends and wife as a whirlwind climax ensues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Roxy Theatre
Chester Morris
Nancy Kelly
Bill Henry
Joe Sawyer
Morris
Hollywood
New York
Nancy
Cadet Training Path Starts For Local Recruits At Keesler Field
Two former Decatur area residents reported to the Army Air Forces Training Command Station at Keesler Field for medical and psychological testing and classification. After processing they await college or university training for five months, with some eligible for direct pre flight cadet training. Names include Pvt James Hill Garrett and Pvt Edward Wheeldon Strother. A Columbus era population comparison is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Army Air Forces Training Command
Keesler Field
James Hill Garrett
Edmond P. Garrett
Belle Mina
Edward Wheeldon Strother
C.W. Strother
Grant St
Ground strafing earns praise for U S Mustang group
Lt. Col. Claiborne H. Kinnard Jr. leads the Bulldog squadron at a U S Mustang base in England. He notes their ground strafing kills exceed 100, with eleven enemy planes down on the ground and four on a recent mission. The pilot admires his men’s resilience as they strike targets despite bombing and extreme cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Bealmear
England
Claiborne’ H. Kinnard Jr
The
Franklin, Tenn
Southmont Drive
Montgomery
Ala
Kinnard
Eighth Air Force
Col
Help Wanted by Old Established Firm in Decatur
An old established business seeks two salesladies to work in stock checking and marking, plus cleaning stock. Permanent positions for right parties. Write P O Box 1054 Decatur Alabama, include age, salary expectations, and references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O
Decatur
Ala
Men On Her Mind: Mary Beth Hughes Chooses Singers Dream
Mary Beth Hughes plays a singer torn between marriage and career in Men On Her Mind. Three suitors Alan Edwards Edward Norris and Ted North tempt with wealth status and love. The film follows her struggle to pursue vocal ambitions despite obstacles and temptations at the Roxy Theatre showing Tuesday and Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Beth Hughes
Alan Edwards
Edward Norris
Ted North
Lily Durrell
Roxy Theatre
U.S. Exports Rise in 1943 First Nine Months
Lend lease and wartime needs boosted American exports to 9.197 billion dollars for January through September 1943, up from 5.575 billion in the same period a year earlier. The gain reflects intensified wartime aid and commercial activity amid global conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Bice Awaits Assignment at Miami Redistribution Station
Technical Sergeant William Bice, bomber mechanic from Decatur, returned from duty outside the continental U S, is processing at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No 2 in Miami Beach. He will receive a recommended new assignment after medical and classification reviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Bice
Decatur
Continental
United States
Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
AAF
Bice
Southwest Pacific
W. D. Bice
Thelma Bernice Bice
Judy Rooney in Best Yet Gershwin Musical at Princess
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a lively MGM musical featuring the Gershwin score and Tommy Dorsey orchestration. The film follows Rooney as a carefree heir who enters Cody College and wins over Judy as the dean's granddaughter while saving the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gershwin
Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
Tommy Dorsey
Princess Theatre
Mickey
Judy
Wes
Cody College
Arizona
Army plan calls for 65000 student nurses in six months
Approximately 65,000 student nurses must be recruited within the next six months to meet minimum requirements of the armed forces.
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Union Pacific’ and
Girl Crazy
Gwen Williams
Roxy Theatre People
Road TO Fame
Roxy
OHV
the “King OF Taps
Sam
Robert Benchley
Ona Massen
Donald McBrive
Ad Guvin
Big Boy
Williams
ARMY
Edderant Norris Alent Stexn
Ty Wallace Fox
Hal McEntire
Ceerry
Ea Mandy ‘Morris
Kelly
Bil
Henry
Gwen Kenyon
Paramount Picture
Cocky Bantam
He-Man
New York City
Canada
Columbus
Capitol
Lloyd Corrigan and
Dorothy Lovett
Flicka
Roddy McDowall
Preston Foster
FU Manchu
Henry Brandon
William Royle
Texas
William Holden
Glenn Ford
Overland Mail
Git Stratton
Robt
E. Strickland
Rags” Ragland
June Allyson
Wandy Walker
Guy Kibbee
Rooney
Garland
Pigy
Fred F. Finkleheffe
Guy Selten
Jack McGowan
Muse
Ire Gershwin
Norman Taubog
Arthur Freed
Ma Dorsey
Hartselle, Alabama
Mary. Martin
Franchot Tone
Claudette Colbert
Paulette Goddard
Veronica Lake
Ruth Terry
Robert Livingston
Wally Vernon
Jack LA Rue
Royal Entertainment
Roy Rogers and
Smiley Burnette
Bob Nolan
Sons OF the Pioneers
Edgar Kennedy
Campia
Beth
U.S
War Services
Rooney, Judy
BEST
Arizona Desert
Rodeo
Nanancy Walker
Gil Stratton
Robert Strickland
Frances Rafferty
Ragland Lend
Norman Taurog
Arthur. Ghschor
Elithe Gaiety
Song
Pettey’s Cleaners
Robert Prestentyane Overman
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