Academy Award Still Most Sought After Cinema Honor
Rosalin d Shaffer reports Oscar curiosity remains high as the Academy awards its annual honors in a streamlined ceremony on March 2. Nominations tallied from seven thousand voters. final results depend on ten thousand industry members. Story notes past winners, rivalries, and contenders including Garson, Jones, Gable, and Cooper, with attention to the enduring prestige of the statuette.
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Rosalind Shaffer Ywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Hollywood
Arest
John
Jack Gilbert
Conrad Veidt
Joan Crawford
Greta Garbo
Marlene Dietrich
Wallace Beery
Ronald Colman
Loretta Young
Acad
Douglas Fairbanks
U. S
Awa
Mickey Mouse
Waltney
Charley
Bergen
Shirley Ti
Ean Deni
Mickey Rovoney
David Mark Griffith
Mack Sennett
Claudette Colbert
Clark Gable
Jennifer
Only Three Have More Than One Academy Prize
Hollywood notes that only Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, and Spencer Tracy have won more than one Academy Award. The list of multiple winners includes 1928 Janet Gaynor and Emil Jannings, 1930 Norma Shearer and George Arliss, 1931 Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore, 1932 Helen Hayes and Frederic March, 1933 Katharine Hepburn and Claudette Colbert, with 1935 Bette Davis for Danger.
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Hollywood
Luise Rainer
Bette Davis
Spencer Tracy
Janet Gaynor
Emil Jannings
M Pickford
Cornette
Warner Baxter
Inlet
Arizona
Norma Shearer
George Arliss
Jack
Marie Dressler
Theaters This Week Showings Include Destination Tokyo and Tarzan
Listings preview cinema with Cary Grant and John Garfield in Destination Tokyo and Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan's Desert Story plus Technicolor shorts. Other titles include Always a Bridesmaid, Harris in Spring, Hands Across the Border, and Desert Song. Feature reels run across multiple theaters with varied cartoons and news segments.
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Tokyo
Cary Grant
John Garfield
Johnny Weissmuller
Nancy Kelly
Broadhurst
Andrew Sisters
Patric Knowles
Harris
Phil Harris
Tom Conway
Kim Hunter
Joe Kirkwood
News of the Day
Film stars honored in annual Oscar winners list
A partial roll of 1936 to 1942 Academy Award winners is cited, naming Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Joan Fontaine, Greer Garson and others for best actress and best actor nominations or wins, with titles including The Great Ziegfeld, Jezebel, Mrs Miniver, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Sergeant York.
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Ous
Victor McLagren
The
Informer
Luise Rainer
Ziegfeld
Paul Muni
Pasteur
Spencer Tracy
Bette Davis
Jezebel
and Tracy
Vivien Leigh
Robert Donat
Ginger Rogers
Kitty Ang Bland
Stewart
Ship Rescue Details Atkinson Heroic Save at Sea
The report recalls Tucker crediting Atkinson with keeping a comrade above water until rescuers arrived. Wayman, a seaman from Joltry Oklahoma, sustained a broken arm manning and firing the forward gun as torpedoes hit the cargo ship. Carrier of Columbia Missouri kept a beacon lit to send SOS. Wehrman of San Pedro California swam amid wreckage aiding wounded as planes approached.
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Associated Press
Peter A .Carrier
West Ash
Columbia
Gallagher
William Wehrman
Colinita
San Pedro
Calif
Big Stage Show at Paramount Promises Triple Entertainment
Count Berni Vici presents Spices of 1944 at the Paramount Theatre for four shows described as a three for one extravaganza. The bill features Olson & Johnson acts red hot with Johnny Frisco Andre and Frances Leonora Erb Terry Turner the Ray Sisters Jian Carelle and Bronya among others. Music comes from Count Berni Vici and his Men of Swing with a top lineup of entertainers and a Red Cross appeal noted in the closing line.
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Count Berni Vici
Paramount Theatre
Red Skelton
Ann, Miller
Wally Brown
Judy Canova
Ion
Olson & J ‘S
Johnny
Rubber Face
Frisco
Andre
Frances
Leonora Erb
Olson & Johnson
Jerry Niles
Mimic
Irving Berlin
Terry Turner
Ray Sisters
Jian Carelle
Powers
Destination Tokyo Opens At Center For 4 Day Engagement
The film Destination Tokyo starring Cary Grant and John Garfield opens at the Comer rhea for four days. It portrays U S Navy undersea warfare and the courage of men in dangerous ocean service with a tight set built like a conning tower. Dudley Walker Morton, a sub captain who returned from patrol, is noted for sinking Japanese ships and earning the Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross with two stars, and a Presidential Citation.
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John Garfield
Cary Grant
Tokyo
United States
Copperfin
Center Theater
Japan
United States Navy
Ocean Service
Mr. Grant
Copparfin
Navy
Ana Dudley Walker Morton
General MacArthur
Tarzan Desert Mystery at Center Theater
Center Theater schedules Tarzan's Desert Mystery a romance and adventure film set in the Sahara. Johnny Weissmuller stars as Tarzan with Johnny Sheffield as Boy and Nancy Kelly in a key role as a ally against Nazi forces amid desert intrigue and peril.
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Connie Bryce
Nancy Kelly
Tarzan
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Sheffield
Center Theatre
Sahara Desert
Center Theate
Cheta
Hhim
Otto Kruger
Oneph Laws
R, Wyer
Lloyd Corrigan
Oe Een
Plan To Fight Coal Shortages
Interior Secretary Ickes announced an extensive system to combat domestic coal shortages next winter. The Solid Fuels Administration will form regional and local unpaid coal dealer groups to help build up coal and coke stocks in spring and summer and mobilize distribution in cold weather to prevent distress shortages from misallocation.
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Washington
Ickes
Solid Fuels Administration
SFA
British Labour Leader Urges End to House Of Commons Truce
Lady Violet Bonham Carter, newly elected Liberal Party president, called for ending the political truce in Britain to free public opinion. Speaking in Plymouth, she described the Commons as an outdated body out of touch and argued for enfranchising dissenting youth and shaking up government nominees.
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London
Great Britain
Violet Bonham-Carter
Liberal Party
House of Commons
Violet
Plymouth
Woman's Best Friend in Kansas City Purses Held
In Kansas City two WAC corporals confronted Genevieve Rodrigues of Honolulu and Mary Keeling of Marion Alabama as two dogs with purses in their mouths dropped pocketbooks containing 422 dollars. The pups ran away after the incident.
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Kansas City
WAC
Genevieve Rodregues
Honolulu
Mary Keiiing
Marion
Ala
Captain Goes Down With Ship In Caribbean
The Liberty ship Melville FE Stone was torpedoed in the Caribbean with 16 lives lost. Master C Lawrence J. Gallagher of Sacramento refused to pause abandon ship and was lost after a life line failed to reach him. A civilian passenger, John M. Atkinson, was commandeered during the incident.
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Washington
War Shipping Administration
Melville FE
Stone
Caribbean
Lastee
Lawrence J. Gallagher
Folsom Blvd
Sacramento
Calif
John M. Atkinson
Lions Meet Durham March Luncheon Conference Here
North Carolina Lions International members will gather for a luncheon conference in Durham on March 6. The program includes a noted speaker and discussions on service work and fundraising for the Red Cross.
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LIONS
Durham
North Carolina
Lions International
Satiate Erepeia
Diane Tea
Mie Meer
RED Cross
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Dane Clark
Roy Rogers
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Valerie Hobson
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William Gaxton
Dennis Morgan
Irene Manning
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