Staged Screensradio Highlights Wartime Film Stars
Western Newspaper Union surveys note actors like Clark Gable Richard Quine and Robert Taylor joining military service after film roles. Rita Hayworth struggles with a dog incident and gas rationing while De Mille and Sturges prep wartime productions. Radio favorites Vox Pop and Take It or Leave It top audiences as Cinderella Swings It and The More the Merrier spark film plans.
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Metro
Clark Gable
Richard Quine
Gal
Richard Ney
Hadley
Robert Taylor
Naval Air Force
Actor Carl Esmond shifts from Citizen rite to Nazi major role
The piece notes Viennese actor Carl Esmond preparing for United States citizenship but ending up as a Nazi major in Attack by Night at Columbia. It also mentions women in defense industries flooding NBC with requests for Mary Margaret McBride's show format shifting to night airings. Sam Hearn of Jack Benny touring company played 32 army camps this season, performing two or three times at sixteen locations.
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Carl Esmond
United States
Columbia
NBC
Mary Margaret McBride
Sam “Schlepperman” Hearn
Jack ‘Benny
Stodeschi
Tom Man Attan
Lupe Velez
USO Lounges Aid Transit Troops Through Chicago
Chicago hosts six of 98 USO Troops In Transit lounges aiding sailors soldiers and marines passing through. Volunteers provide mail writing help directions lodging and social contact, with lounges open 8 am to 11 pm year round and staffed by 650 Chicago hostesses and thousands nationwide.
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Pearl Harbor
USO
Texas
Massachusetts
WAACS
WAVES
Travelers Aid
Chicago
Home recreation ideas to lift wartime spirits
During travel limits caused by war, families can enjoy simple, inexpensive games at home to relieve tension and refresh for the days ahead. Suggestions include tossing cards into a hat, Spin the Bottle, Musical Chairs, party menus, celebratory meals, progressive dinners, neighbor gatherings, and keeping a scrapbook of games for moments of fun.
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Johnnie
April Smiles and Laughter Party Guide for Families
A National Recreation Association feature by Miss Abbie Condit promotes an informal home party focused on humor and self expression. It suggests inviting guests with playful cards, goofy decorations, funny signs, and humorous activities from grinning contests to indoor relay games and a shared buffet style refreshment setup.
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Abbie Condit
National Recreation Association
Sponge shortages push up prices and force substitutes
Demand for marine sponges outstrips supply as divers struggle to reach distant beds. Rubber sponges cannot be made, rayon sponges are filling the gap, and prices rise for the scarce natural product used in industry and armed services.
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Armed Services
Coast Guard
Marine
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle
A playful feature advises on smooth legs and flawless cosmetic stockings with careful blending to avoid streaks and runs. The piece promotes a quick technique for neat, even coverage.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Air power shifts to firepower as armorers sought for planes
Brig Gen Claire Chennault urges more armorers to arm and outfit Flying Tigers with heavy guns and bombs. The shift argues for prioritizing firepower over pure engineering, citing the Bell Airacobra, Republic P-47, and B 25 as examples and calling for thousands of armorers to service guns, bombs, and control gear.
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Claire Chennault
Flying Tiger A.V.G
Chennault
America
Lowry Field
Airacobra
New Republic
General Doolittle
Red Cross Services to Fighting Men Shine in War Effort
The Red Cross reports its global reach aiding one million service members since 1942 through field directors, blood plasma, overseas clubs, and dressings. War Fund goals exceed half toward expanding military services as Red Cross Month is marked by President Roosevelt. Private John B. Jellema thanks the organization for a ditty bag aiding Tulagi island duties.
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Washington
Red Cross
South Sea
Hans Christian Adamson
U. S. Army Air Corps
Walter Reed
North Africa
Guadalcanal
Alaska
Adamson
Norman H. Davis
Roosevelt
Red Cross Home Service
John B. Jellema
Burlington
Iowa
Tulagi Island
Torpedo Boats Guard Panama Canal in Vast Patrol
Fast torpedo boats of the Fifteenth Naval District churn the waters to protect the Panama Canal. They act as dynamite to Axis submarines and carry enough to sink a fleet of submarines, a phrase Roosevelt used to call them rattlesnakes of the deep.
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Fifteenth Naval District
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
Nehf dynasty and wartime leadership highlighted in brief
A feature notes Art Nehf and family achieving three World Series wins across generations, and Art Junior’s three scoreless outings amid wartime danger. It also profiles Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold directing Army engineers, plus Herbert Morrison rising to town and country planning roles in Britain with steady, decisive leadership.
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Eugene Reybold
Army Corps of Engineers
Coast Artillery School
Fort Monroe
Mississippi
Old Man River
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Vox Pop
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America IN Action
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