Star Johnny Edwards kinship and Coast guest spots noted
Virginia Vale Oan Edwards scores solo rise to fame without her uncle Gus Edwards. She plans Coast appearances with him as guest, while Judy Ann mother Joan wishes more time with youngster but remains tied to The Hit Parade for years. Director Mitchell Leisen again uses personal props as Masquerade in Mexico features Dorothy Lamour with his travel luggage.
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Oan Edwards
Gus Edwards
Joan
Judy Ann
Mitchell Leisen
Mexico
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy
Mr. Leisen
Alexis Smith Opens Porter Biopic After The Two Mrs Carrolls
Alexis Smith finished The Two Mrs Carrolls at Warner Bros. on a Saturday and moved to Night and Day a Porter biopic about Cole Porter, where she appears as Mrs. Porter on the studio lot.
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Alexis Smith
Mrs. Carrolls
Warner Bros
Cole Porter
Porter
Jacqueline White Lands First Big Screen Role Opposite Peck
After three years with Metro grooming Jacqueline White for stardom she moves from one film to a major assignment in The Yearling opposite Gregory Peck. This marks her first substantial screen role following Song of Russia.
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Metro
Jacqueline White
Russia
Gregory Peck
Queen for a Day adaptation and two Wilkie Collins films
Ed Golden buys film rights to Queen for a Day and United Artists will release the picture. The show features a studio audience queen granted wishes and guest appearances by movie stars. Warner Bros. adapts Wilkie Collins mysteries Woman in White and The Moonstone for the screen, praised as better than many modern detective tales.
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Mutual
Ed Golden
United Artists
Warner Bros. Studio
Wilkie Collins
Rise Stevens Gets Summer Radio Show As Info Please Replacement
Rise Stevens starts a summer radio program replacing Information Please with a rotating musical director from a major film company each week, presenting a novel format for the season.
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Rise Stevens
Lulu McConnell Defies Doctors For Broadcast Return
Weeks after a hospital trip Lulu McConnell star of It Pays to Be Ignorant defied orders. She dressed and went to the studio for the broadcast saying she would be dead if she could not perform.
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Lulu McConnell
Tom Howard
Hollywood Rent Sign Draws Crowd for The Gay Nineties Scene
Weary apartment seekers cheered as a single line “Apartment for Rent” sign hung outside a Monadogram studio building. Gale Storm planned to inspect the sign for The Gay Nineties scene but crowding delayed filming for about thirty minutes until an assistant director calmed the street.
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Hollywood
Monogram Studio
Gale Storm
Odds and Ends Reflect TV and Air Show Rumors
Notes on Jane Withers potentially hosting a fall youth air show and Alice Faye possibly leaving films for an air show with Phil Harris. Hi Brown, a prolific radio figure from Inner Sanctum, led over 15,000 broadcasts with 35 shows in one year. Ray Bulger’s show replaces Jimmy Durante with a star-studded summer lineup. Canova’s husband went overseas as their baby turned five weeks old.
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Jane Withers
Alice Faye
Phil Harris
Hi Brown
Producto
Inner Sanctum
Ray Bulger
Jimmy Durante Seraanes
Fello
Wes
Canova
Citizens honored with wartime society degrees for thrift and service
Thaddeus Wenkel Wilmer K Powsley Jarvis Abercrombie Amos R Whelk Felix M Popps Zeke honor choices praised for not seeking extra rations false boasting or harassment. They receive fictional degrees and small gifts reflecting virtue during the war era.
Ike the General Baseball Legend in Kansas League Remembrance
Elmer Twitchell recalls General Eisenhower’s Kansas State league days under the name Wilson. He praises Ike as a versatile player who pitched fast and changeup, played shortstop, and made key plays against Kraut batters, including a bases loaded out against Hitler.
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Wilson
General Eisenhower
Elmer Twitchell
Ike
Hitler
Mussolini Pullman in Allied hands prompts a bold plan
The article notes Mussolini’s imperial Pullman, once used for high level meetings, is now in Allied Rome control. It proposes repurposing the vehicle for public use by the G.Ls to hold exclusive craps games, illustrating wartime improvisation and partisan views on postwar function.
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Jones
Felix M
Mussolini
Brenner
Rome
G.ls
County Family Chronicle of Amos Croy in Missouri
Amos Croy settles on a Missouri farm marries and raises Homer who later enjoys church, dinner, and steer weight guessing. The family attends the Omaha Exposition where Homer sees a horseless carriage, hula dancers, and the first motion picture. Renzo the hired hand leaves then returns to buy a farm joining the landed gentry. his wife becomes a local leader.
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Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha Exposition
Renzo
From Farm to University a Midwest Youth's Awakening
Homer chronicles leaving the farm for university life at Missouri with his parents Pa and Ma cheering and worrying. He recalls fear of new surroundings, earning money, joining journalism work, and an offer to study in St. Louis with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Croy Farm
Drake University
Grinnell College
William Jewell College
Park College
University of Missouri
University of Kansas
University of Iowa
Our
Harvard
Renzo Davis
Wabash
Kansas City Star
St. Joseph
The
Critic
the Circle
Gray Goose
the Bohemian
the Quill
Bellman
Minneapolis
Walter Williams
University
George S. Johns
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Orrick Johns
St. Louis
Contests and Comebacks Shape Postwar Sports Boom
The public favors competitive races over static dominance in baseball and other sports as wartime veterans return. Muscled by army and navy programs, fans will see more contenders and fewer star-only outcomes, with players like Hank Greenberg and Joe Louis symbolizing a broader postwar athletic surge.
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Dickey
Gordon
Chandler
Walker
Cooper
Joe DiMaggio
Tex Hughson
Bob Feller
Yankees
Cardinals
Johnstown
Whirlaway
United States
Army
Navy
Carl Hubbell
Dave Ferriss
al Benton
Hubbell
Greasy Neale
Steve Owen
Commissioner Chandler
Hank Greenberg
Tiger Hawk
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Greenberg
These Useful Chests Are Easy to Make
Simple block front chest with straight cuts ideal for bathrooms kitchens or closets. Encourages pairing for unit clashes and suggests desk or dressing table uses. Pattern 282 provides large cutting diagrams and step by step directions with a materials list. Send 15 cents with name and address.
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Foel
Chest of Drawers
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Popps
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Elmer
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