Radio and Screen Notes Highlight 1940s Celebrities and Shows
A collage of entertainment gossip covers radio's WLS Dance Show origins and its 10th anniversary on the network. It notes Hal Horan, Lombardo, Dorsey, Cugat, Crosby, and Jones joining for future programs. Also mentions Laraine Day, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Curtis Rudolf's early theater path and radio ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas
Hollywood
Laraine Ray
Mr. Lucky
Dunne
Katharine Hepburn
Ayia Sidney
Grant Pictures
Joan
Con
Bennett
Bereen
Leftovers Turned Into Delicious Dinner In A Roll
A pantry friendly feature shows how to repurpose scraps into a complete meal. Ground lamb with carrots and onion is rolled inside biscuit dough and baked, with tomato or barbecue sauce. Also includes honey strawberry shortcake and fried meatless options for rationed meals.
Gay Gadgets Nail Polish Glamour Tips
A playful 1940s style feature explains fashion tricks using nail polish and inexpensive items. Readers are urged to create multi color nails, V shaped thumbs up, and decorative brush tricks. It suggests repurposing bottles and accessories for perfume, flowers, rings, and jewelry to convey glamour and style.
Dry-suds cleaning for upholstery and rugs
A slow but effective method uses a soap jelly made from mild soap and water. Beat the jelly with an egg beater, apply with a damp sponge in small areas, then wipe and overlap until finished. The article will stay damp rather than wet and dry in about an hour. Ledger Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Women fill over half a million army civilian posts in war effort
More than 500 000 civilian women now work in clerical administrative industrial and mechanical jobs for the army making up about 38 percent of war department personnel. Women perform 400 skills from food consultant to messenger and receive training on the job and in schools with the aid of the US Office of Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
War Department
Quartermaster General
Pentagon
United States Office of Education
Corps of Engineers
Signal Corps
Ordnance Department
Quartermaster Corps
New England
Chemical Warfare Service
Rock Island Arsenal
Illinois
Sacramento Air Depot
McClellan Field
Calif
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Maryland
Western Newspaper Union
Tricks for Teens: playful pocket string display
Sew two patch pockets on a sweater or blouse and use doll size clothespins to connect a string from pocket to pocket. Fill with miniature clothes to attract attention as a conversation starter and showcase creativity.
Vacation Talkers and War Disengagement Reflections
A light wartime vignette contrasts a blissful summer on the porch with grim war news. The couple celebrates a year without typical vacation hassles while noting Africa and Sicily losses, ad chatter, and hints of patriotic duty. Mild satire underscores exhausted American sentiment.
Bus Dobbin Returns Home Like a Familiar Wagon
Mare Island Navy Yard bus operator Mrs. C. M. Nelson planned to christen the vehicle Dobbin. The bus stalled on the route to Walnut Creek, she telephoned for help then discovered the bus had vanished and was found waiting with the engine running in Walnut Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vallejo
Calif
Dobbin
C. M. Nelson
Mare Island Navy Yard
Walnut Creek
This Man a Night Worker In U S Aircraft Plant
Frank Alten born in Vienna portrays Nazi officers in Hollywood by day then works as a graveyard armament worker at a large Burbank California aircraft plant by night. He is photographed in a make believe Nazi captain uniform performing a goose step and salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Alten
Count Frans. Altenburger
Vienna
Austria
Hollywood
Burbank
Calif
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chile
Sahara
Columbia
Braceett
Joe
South Pacific
Ctor
Art
Kody
WLS
Principe
Guy Lombardo
Royal Flans
Alhave
Tommy Dorsey
Harry 3
Xavier Cugat
Bob Crosby
Monroe
Spike Jones
East
Ellery Queen
Rmers
Jay Jostyn
For
Camp Ellis
Lewiston
Yere
Ing
Anita
Sro
Jack Carson
CBS
Hi Brown
Nero Wolfe
Brown
Curtis Rudolf
Ction
Cleveland
Itly
Metro
Donortis
Garfield
Walter Slezak
O’hara
Richallace
Uch
Hal O'Halloran
Associated Newspapers
WIN Features
Jools
O. K
Phyllis Belmont
Wac
Waves
England
Margaret Cocklin
Susanville
Eleanor Culp Byrom
Bernice Mickel Solomon
U. S. Naval Training Station
New York
Gabrielle
Berlin
Fuehrer
Hitler
Africa
Sicily
Eddie Rickenbacker
Germany
Naples
Elmer Twitchell
Old Dobbin
Telefact
NAVY
U. S
E.W
ROLLS
Se Crthest Photo Service
Fargo North Dakota
Peyeme Tauables
Mitchell
Bones
Welsh Mineral Company
13Th St
Billings
Mont
Charley Gordon
Shreveport
Louisiana
Interstate Housing
Eureka
Guernsey
Heifers
Fred Chandler
Hawaii
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Doans
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