War era cinema notes in wartime roundup column
The piece surveys film and newsreel offerings from The Magic Lanterns and related reels, praising grim battle realism and wartime messages. It mentions Wale Island, Across the Pacific, Berlin Correspondent, and The World at War, noting actors like Bogart and Astor, plus Goebbels and Nazi propaganda critiques. It also references Rex Stout, Frank King, Elsie McCormick, and Pie’s editorial on Coughlin.
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Wale Island
Brian Donlevy
Robert Preston
MacDonald Carey
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Sidney Greenstreet
Berlin
Goebbels
U. S
Frank Kingdon
Free World
Congress
Elsie McCormick
Boston
Mercury
Pie
Coughlin
Clark Gable praised for The Hard Way in army and press
The piece notes praise for Clark Gable's film The Hard Way while reporting mixed letters from women calling it improper. It explains Army policy at Miami Beach OCS that inductees are made corporals briefly, then addressed as Mr Gable until graduation as 2nd Lt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Gable
Clark
Miami Beach
Army
Corporal Gable
Gable
Senator in Egypt By Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr profiles wartime experiences in Libya with American tanks and British allies. He warns that victory depends on total national effort, cautioning against overreliance on superior weaponry and stressing the Axis threat and need for coordinated production and resolve. He discusses M3 and M4 tanks, German tactics, and the desert fighting balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Sail on Rum Virtually All Navies Allow Rationed Drink
Virtually every navy in the world supplies sailors with a daily ration of rum wine or other alcohol except the United States Navy which abolished the practice in 1862. American sailors may have as many as a dozen cups of coffee daily but their average is not more than six.
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United States Navy
Fit for a King India’s Government House described by Collier's
Collier's portrays Government House in New Delhi as the finest palace in India. The two-story residence cost 15,009,000 dollars, required 15 years to build, and houses 1340 rooms, 14 elevators, 227 columns, 35 loggias, and 37 fountains.
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India
Government House
New Delhi
Collier's
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Rudy Vallee
Ernie Haas
James True
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Americas Magazine
America
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Libya
Libyan
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Senate Military Affairs Committee
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Nellie Busby
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Eastman
William Saroyan
The
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Bay War Bonds
Yankee
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Elmer Twitchell
Lely
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Tllegg
Etiny
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Silvermine
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Mussolini
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