Movie Notes and Talent Moves Across Studios in Briefs
Paramount bought two panels from Hearst Collection used as sets in The Hitler Gang. Alfred Hugenberg’s mansion interiors serve as Nazi industrial wealth in the film. Ginny Simms, now Your Honor, jokes with NBC’s Johnny Pre mis cast. Warner Bros. to release The Adventures of Mark Twain in 200 theaters with Frederic March and Alexis Smith. South American Front-1944 debuts March of Time to reveal Argentine and Brazil war resources. Rudy Vallee’s radio show pivots to Haley. Johnson demonstrates new army lip microphone. Republic TV teases Secrets of Scotland Yard with Edgar Barrier. Joan Bennett stars opposite Edward G Robinson in Once Off Guard. Dick Powell leads Farewell My Lovely at RKO. Jim Jordan Jr. gains acting work at RKO after signing as contract player. Robert Livingstone, famed western star, shifts to serious drama with Good night Sweetheart. wears woman’s coiffure in scenes.
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Production on ya Brown Halted After Gary Cooper Injury
Reports say Gary Cooper was injured in a bicycle fall causing a temporary production halt. RKO borrowed Ella Raines from Universal for the lead with John Wayne in Tall in the Saddle. Frank Novak of Hook ’n Ladzm Follies urged others to tidy files as servicemen in hospitals request sheet music.
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Romania in Turbulent Balkans Gains and Losses Across Wars
Romania has shifted territory in the 1914 18 and 1939 41 wars, expanding then retreating gains. By 1940 it ceded Bessarabia, Northern Bucovina and Transylvania while retaining core mountain defenses. The nation, an Axis ally, supplied oil and minerals though suffered heavy casualties and population shifts.
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Makeup tips for spring season by Gabrielle
After your spring checkup for skin review your makeup accessories. Put away heavy winter lipstick shades and prepare anew with a bright red for summer prints. For blue eyes try dark blue mascara to flatter lashes. For dark eyes consider purple tones to enhance features.
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Russian Victims Reported as Nazis Sweep Russia
London dispatch says the Extraordinary State Commission reports 2,000,000 Russians killed since the German invasion. Prisoners of war are included among those killed and poisoned in murder vans.
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Thoughtful Hospital Gifts For a Friend in Care
Advice on comforting a hospitalized friend with practical gifts such as a fluffy bed jacket satin quilted booties and a bedside writing desk. Also suggests organizing a discreet fund to help cover medical bills and notes that financial help is often valued over costly flowers.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Cadet Center Aims to Build War Effort and Home Life
San Antonio aviation cadets and students study aviation, business basics, and home planning at the Cadet Service Club library. Mrs. Alice F. Lovelace notes fiction leads, with The Robe and Northwest Passage popular, and Ernie Pyle works cited. The library holds 6,620 books, 62 magazine titles, 34 newspapers, and a War File. A War Exhibit is in miniature, and staffers maintain wall charts to track wartime progress.
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Gay Gadgets Fashion Tips Page Crack
A playful fashion feature offers DIY ideas for school skirts and matching gadgets. Tips include bloomers to pair with short skirts, sewn hearts on belts, initials appliqued on sweaters, and novelty wear such as fish flies on beanies, comic character discs, and walnut turtle gadgets.
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Lapel Lunacies Attract Attention in New Fashion Era
A quirky trend draws eyes with bold pins and unusual motifs. Designers push playful accessories into daily wear as shoppers seek expressive statements on clothing.
Star Lovers Move From Old Favorites To New Dance Partner
The speaker shifts fond regard from classic stars to Don O Connor as the preferred dance partner, expressing a playful longing to cut a rug with him over earlier favorites. The verse nods to Roger, Gable, Eddy, Rooney, Rogers, Astaire, and O Connor in a lively nostalgic cadence.
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Seven Million British Women Engaged in War Work
London. Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin announced that 22,000,000 Britons are in fulltime war work or armed forces, over 7,000,000 of whom are women. He spoke at a Tadworth rest home for women workers funded by American donations, noting 525000 contributed in 1943 for British rest homes.
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A General Quiz From A to Z Inquiring Minds Test
Questions cover meanings materiel and amen. Direction a rower faces up northwest stream. Tschaikowsky trained beyond music. Auto lowest gear and twin types. Prester John identity. Origin of Maine goes Union saying tied to a presidential election.
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Nineteenth Century Terms Quiz Answers
A list covering topics from army gear to geography, law, and identity types. Includes Northwest, reverse, three equal siblings, a medieval Christian monarch, and events or phrases dating to 1840.
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