Women leaders urge new economic order after war
Dr Minnie Maffett, president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, calls for equal pay and women’s authority in a postwar world. Her Los Angeles meeting outlines a drive for leadership, social effort, and readiness for a cultural showdown.
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York
Minnie L. Maffett
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Inalsta
Maffett
Dallas
Texas
College of Medicine
Baylor University
Department of Health, Education
Southern Methodist University
University of Texas
Federation
Domestic Vessel in Shipshape for War Time Solvency
A columnist urges families to cut debt and trim expenses to endure wartime hardships. It cites rising costs, the value of shared effort, and practical examples from a Philadelphia family, including debt reduction plans and home schooling, to foster unity and resilience.
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Jim
Mother
Mary
Caseman
Philadelphia
Weathering trouble ahead with practical planning guidance
Kathleen Norris warns of rising living costs and growing war impact. She cites real examples of how others weathered hardship to encourage prudent preparation for the future and comfort readers facing uncertain economic times.
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Kathleen Norris
Denver man patents device to hook speeding motorists
R King of Seattle proposes a speed control device designed to hook drivers who run red lights. He claims the mechanism would catch violators like a bass on a plug and would involve street officers enforcing the plan.
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Denver
R. King
Seattle
King
Garbo Film Start Amid Superstitions and News From Hollywood
The Garbo film production began on Friday the thirteenth with cast chatter on superstitions. Melvyn Douglas calls Friday lucky, Ruth Gordon embraces ladders and black cats, and Roland Young plans a china penguin to dodge the jinx. Janet Blair rises in Three Girls About Town, while David Niven serves as a major in England and reports 20 Nazi bombers down. The March of Time premieres New England’s Eight Million Yankees to show invasion-proofing in the six northeastern states with future regional releases planned.
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Melvyn Douglas
Ruth Gordon
Roland Young
Miss Garbo
David Niven
England
Bing Crosby
English
France
March of Time
New England
Midwest
Texas
Blondie Star Penny Singleton in Cowboy Joe film
Penny Singleton works on her first musical film Cowboy Joe with Glenn Ford opposite. She rose as a Broadway singer dancer before Hollywood success from nine Blondie comedies. The piece also notes Warner Bros Underground reproduces Himmler’s office with smuggled photos.
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Penny Singleton
Blondie
Glenn Ford
Hollywood
Heinrich Himmler
Warner Bros
Himmler
Kurt Schmidt
Khevzars of Caucasus Observe Three Day Sabbath
Collier's reports the Khevzars, a Caucasus people in Russia, keep a three day Sabbath Friday through Sunday. Their only liquor is beer brewed and served by the church at religious festivals, and women are forbidden to bear children during the first three years of marriage.
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Mary
Casemans
Caucasus
Russia
Collier’s
Bob Hope stars in Louisiana Purchase production
Bob Hope, famed for Thanks for the Memory, will sing You Cant Brush Me Off in Paramounts Louisiana Purchase. Lately he has been among the funniest on screen with Caught in the Draft, and Eddie Bracken also earns laughs in the new film.
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Bob Hope
Louisiana Purchase
Paramount
Eddie Bracken
Hap Hazard radio summer replacement cast set
Most regular roles for the Hap Hazard summer replacement show for Fibber McGee and Molly are filled with minor additions. Star lineup includes Ransom Sherman with Edna O Dell singing and Billy Mills orchestra. Blondie on CBS tops half hour shows in Crosley report.
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Hap Hazard
Ransom
Sherman
Edna O’dell
Billy Mills
CBS
Crosley
Actress Ona Munson Shifts Gigs and Plans Santa Barbara Rest
Ona Munson finished work on Wild Geese Calling at 20th Century Fox and took a radio vacation when Edward G Robinsons Big Toton ended for the summer. Ruth Hussey and Robert Young will star in Married Bachelors a comedy about a young married couple always two steps ahead of the sheriff Jane Wyatt plays the female lead opposite. ORecle in Week End also mentioned.
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Ona Munson
20Th Century-Fox
Edward G. Robinson
Santa Barbara
Ruth Hussey
Robert Young
Jane
Wyatt
Ear Orecle
RKO
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John Ruskin
University of California
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Paris
Teheran
B. C
Lenton
Bell Syndicate
By Kathleen Norris
New York
Daddy
Virginia Vale
Janet Blair
Hal Kemp
Columbia
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Greta Garbo
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Minneapolis
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Weyer
POL
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King Edward
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