National Barn Dance In Film Bright on Hollywood Screens
The National Barn Dance features the radio cast including Arkie the Arkansas Woodchopper Lulu Bell Scotty the Dinning Sisters Pat Buttram and Joe Kelley. A mix of backwoods comedy and romance plays across Chicago as Rob Benchley considers bringing the hillbilly troupe to TV. Alan Ladd stars with Loretta Young in And Not Tomorrow a romance adapted from All This and Heaven Too.
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Hollywood
Hoosier
Arkie
Arkansas Woodchopper
Lulu Bell
Scotty
Dinning Sisters
Pat Buttram
Joe Kelle
Polk
America Jones
Rob Benchley
Jean Heather
Quigley
Mabel Paige
Benchley
Chicago
Hillbillies
Alan Ladd
Loretta Young
Ladd
Rachel Field
Heaven
Social Security Tax Freeze Stalls Congress Adjournment Nears
President Roosevelt signs a measure freezing social security taxes delaying an increase from one to two percent. The action clears the last major hurdle for the 78th Congress before final adjournment as Senate nominations and a few floor items remain.
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Washington
Roosevelt
State Department
Property Board
Senate
Edinburgh Youth Hostel Plan Expands Across Scotland
Edinburgh's Council of the Scottish Youth Hostel Association unveils a program to build 80 new hostels from Solway Firth to Pentland Firth, doubling capacity to 5,000 beds. One third of the 30,000 members could use hostels simultaneously, signaling strong postwar growth for the International Youth Hostel movement.
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Edinburgh
Council of the
Scottish Youth Hostel Association
Scotland
Solway Firth
Pentland Firth
Test Octane Gasoline for Air Force AAF Piston Engine
An aircraft engine capable of 400 mph but unable to fly will test 100 octane gasoline now used by the AAF. The experimental setup aims to study combustion and performance characteristics for future aviation fuel developments.
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AAF
Film Schedule Highlights This Week
This week features Step Lively with George Murphy Frank Sinatra Gloria DeHaven and Adolphe Menjou from today through Wednesday. The Canterville Ghost with Margaret OBrien Charles Laughton and Robert Young runs Thursday through Saturday. Midnight Bride By Mistake stars Alan Marshal Laraine Day and Marsha Hunt with Uncle Sam in March of Time. Also Criminal on Goma with Ann Sheridan the Dead End Kids and Claude Rains, Riders of the Santa Fe with Rod Cameron Fuzzy Knight and Eddie Dew, and Manpower with Edward G Robinson Marlene Dietrich and others run Thursday through Saturday.
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Goma Ann Sheridan
The
Dead End Kids
Claude Rains
Riders of the Santa Fe
Rod Cameron
Fuzzy Knight
Eddie Dew
Jennifer Holt
Edward G. Robinson
Marlene Dietrich
George Raft
Alan Hale
Frank McHugh
The Saint Meets the Tiger and Other Screenings
Wednesday and Thursday bring The Saint Meets the Tiger with Hugh Sinclair Jean Gillie Gore don McLean. Friday and Saturday show The Hour Before The Dawn with Veronica Lake Franchot Tone John Sutton and Binnie Barnes. National Barn Dance runs today through Wednesday featuring Jean Heather Robert Quigley and WLS stars. Thursday through next Wednesday And Now Tomorrow stars Alan Ladd Loretta Young and Susan Hayward.
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Son Eddy
Charles Coburn
Johnny “Scat” Davis
Otto Kruger
Hugh Sinclair
Jean Gillie
Goredon McLean
Veronica Lake
Franchot Tone
John Sutton
Binnie Barnes
Jean Heather
Robert Quigley
WLS
Alan Ladd
Loretta Young
Susan Hayward
Today only The Heavenly Body star cast lineup
Today only at the cinema the Heavenly Body features William Powell Hedy Lamarr James Craig and Fay Bainter in a marquee event. Also showing Monday and Tuesday Knickerbocker Holiday with Na as the featured performer.
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Heavenly Body
William Powell
Hedy LaMarr
James Craig
Fay Bainter
Charlie Chaplin to Testify Against Himself in Paternity Suit
Los Angeles reports Charlie Chaplin, age 55, will testify Monday in Joan Berry's paternity case. Jury selection slow, with attorneys planning to finish it, then call Dr. Russell Starr as witness one and Chaplin as witness two.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Berry
Russell Starr
Chaplin
Starr
Miss Berry
Carol Ann
Joseph Scott
California
Charles E. Millikan
Long
Movie Schedule Entry for Henry Aldrich and Casts
Today only Henry Aldrich's Little Secret with Jimmy Lyon Charles Smith Joan Mor timer plus Gunsmoke Mesa Tex O'Brien. Monday through Thursday Gunga Din Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Randolph Scott Douglas Fairbanks Jr Victor McLaglen. Friday through Sunday Dangerous Journey Denis Roosevelt Tours plus Thunder ing Gunslingers Buster Crabbe.
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Henry Aldrich
Jimmy Lydon
Charles Smith
Joan Mortimer
Tex O'Brien
Cary Grant
Joan Fontaine
Randolph Scott
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Victor McLaglen
Denis and
Roosevelt Tours
Buster Crabbe
Milk poisonous snakes for antitoxin production
Snakes capable of yielding venom are milked to obtain poison used in manufacturing antitoxins. The practice targets venom extraction for medical antidotes.
Chile Forest Code Proposal Promotes Replanting Rules
At a Santiago conservation conference, proponents urged that every person cutting one tree on state land must plant three. They called for replanting an area at least equal to the deforested land, arguing domestic timber would improve with replanted stock.
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Chile
Santiago
New 27-Hour Australia India Air Route Sets Sunrise Record
Melbourne aviators introduce the Order of the Double Sunrise for the Australia India air service. Flyers on the long route stay in the air long enough to see the sun rise twice per trip. The 27 hour flight carries only three passengers.
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Australia-India Air Service
Melbourne
Step Lively Rivoli Screen Show With Stars Of Favorites
Step Lively at the Rivoli pages today through Wednesday features a sextette of top film stars in a musical comedy inspired by a Broadway success. Frank Sinatra George Murphy and Adolphe Menjou headline a list that includes Gloria de Haven Walter Slezak and Eugene Pallette in a lively tale of a Broadway producer. Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne provided songs including Where Does Friendship End and Love Begin Come Out Come Out and As Long As There S Music among others. Also showing Thursday through Saturday is The Canterville Ghost starring Charles Laughton Margaret O Brien and Robert Young in a comedy based on Oscar Wilde with a wartime twist. Opening midnight Bride By Mistake stars Alan Marshal Laraine Day and Marsha Hunt.
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Frank Sinatra
George Murphy
Adolphe Menjou
Gloria de Haven
Walter Slezak
Eugene Pallette
Sammy Cahn
Jule Styne
Step Lively
Murphy
Miss de Haven
Sinatra
Charles Laughton
Little Margaret O’brien
Robert Young
Oscar Wilde
Canterville
Droz Receives Bronze Star for Meritorious Service
Private Alfred M. Droz Jr. of La Crosse Wisconsin received the Bronze Star with the 2nd Infantry Division in France for meritorious action. He reestablished and repaired battalion wire communications under intermittent artillery fire after enemies damaged equipment and cut lines. He continued work despite shells landing nearby until lines were restored.
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France
Alfred M. Droz
Avon Street
la Crosse
Wis
Pvt
Droz
Pvt. Broz
Oshkosh Man Sentenced To Die In Gas Chamber
Judge William McKnight sentenced Paul Maynard Skaug 23 of Oshkosh Wisconsin to die in Nevada’s lethal gas chamber within 60 to 90 days for the first degree murder of Mrs Beate Voss in Reno during an attempted robbery. Skaug showed little emotion and asked to leave after the sentence.
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Nev
William McKnight
Paul Maynard Skaug
Oshkosh
Wis
Nevada
Skaug
Beate Voss
Carson City
Pfc Oswald Wilson Killed in Action in France
Pfc Oswald Wilson son of Mr and Mrs S A Wilson of Spring Grove Minn was killed in action in France The Wilsons formerly lived in Mabel Minn
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Ila
Oswald Wilson
S. A. Wilson
Spring Grove
Minn
France
Wilsons
Mabel
Price tribunal order on lemon lots prompts decoder plea
Traders in Wellington seek an interpreter for tribunal orders after the latest directive ties maximum prices to the weight of lemon lots sold by wholesalers in non standard packaging. The order says price proportion equals the weight ratio to a three quarter-bushel case.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Air travel to rise after war with vast traffic gains
Postwar projections estimate 700 million passenger miles yearly ahead of 104 million prewar. Industry planners expect about 1500 aircraft will manage the anticipated surge in air travel.
Roof-Sitter Forces Delhi Bride Change of Plans
In Fyzabad, a groom-to-be climbed onto his family roof on his wedding day to resist an arranged match. He remained on the roof all day shouting threats until his parents canceled the marriage and let him pursue his preferred bride.
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India
Fyzabad
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