Engagement Struggles Shadow Covington Dinner Plans
Kathleen and Shirley clash over Shirley Maguire Newsom and Jaird Newsom. The Maguire family prepares for a dinner hosted by Mrs. Belle Newsom while tensions rise with Connie Mays and the threatened engagement. Laura Maguire paddles through class and kin ties as Tom and Mary Etta arrive.
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Covington
Laura Maguire
Tom
Mary
Etta
Tomi
Laura
Shirley Laura
Shirley
Fraying hopes shadow Shirley and Jaird in a wavering romance
Shirley and Jaird face growing barriers as years of frustration dull their spirits. Kathleen prods them toward decisive revolt while Mrs Newsom’s shifting stance threatens any chance of a home together. Shirley watches the tree lined street from the Maguire house, thinking of a future denied by family pressure.
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Kathleen
Shirley
Jaird Newsom
Jaird
Blake Newsom
Newsums
Mother Newsom
Connie Mays
Shirley Maguire
Connie
Reid
Hagar
Ishmael
Mar
Crisis in the Atlantic film highlights Arctic to South Atlantic defense
The film shows camera crews voyaging from Canada to England aboard a tanker, with Greenland footage marking a first arrival. It portrays sea lane efforts to move war materials and food to Britain and U S Canadian defense ties across bases from Arctic to South Atlantic. Brian Donlevy stars in The Great Man's Lady as a professional gambler who cheats, despite his dislike of card games.
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Arch OF Time
Canada
England
Greenland
Atlantic
Britain
Arctic
South Atlantic
Brian Donlevy
Paramount
Donlevy
Davis Surfaces In The Little Foxes And More
Film notes discuss Bette Davis in The Little Foxes and Anna Neagle’s underwater dance in Sunny. Mentions Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Bob Hope’s grandfather helping with fires, and Agnes Moorehead in Citizen Kane. Also notes Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor’s West Indies cruise as Mr. and Mrs. Brugh.
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Anna Neagle
Sunny
England
New Orleans
Ray Bolger
John Carroll
Miss Neagle
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
West Indies
Mrs
A. S. Brugh
Studio news and star rumors from wartime film era
Warner Brothers drafted college students to fill gun roles for Dive Bomber and The Flight Patrol due to a draft shortage. Roy Rogers stars in Republics Robin Hood serial. Robert Cummings to be Deanna Durbin’s leading man in Almost an Angel. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy begin fifth year of their coffee program with uncertain script prospects. The Pause That Refreshes renewed for summer network run.
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Warner Brothers
Robin Hood
Republic
Roy Rogers
Robert Cummings
Deanna Durbin
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
New Way to a Youthful Figure Diet Plan Promises Results
A stout woman loses up to 24 pounds in three months by limiting daily calories to about 1200 while continuing to eat as much as ever. The ad offers a 42 menu 32 page booklet plus an enlarged calorie chart and tips to gain. Send orders to Reader Home Service 635 Sixth Ave New York City.
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Reader Home Service
Sixth Ave
New York City
Varied Wishes Express Romantic Longing in Verse
The fragment cites Richter describing desires for humankind to possess one neck, one heart, and one pair of sobbing tear glands, with pride as two bent knees, conveying a poetic meditation on unity and emotion.
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Richter
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Hullo
Mrs. Maguire
Chapter
Virginia
Western Newspaper Union
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Little Foxes
RKO
Miss Davis
Bob Hope
Bob
Paulette Goddard
Ghost Breakers
Agnes Moorehead
Orson Welles
Welles
Kelloge Company
Vauven
Emerson
Sunkist
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California Fruit Growers Exchange
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