Tycoon preview and Hollywood notes from Lone Pine
A mixed film column covers Tycoon with Laraine Day and John Wayne set against an Andes railroad tunnel build drama. It notes wardrobe, cast quirks, and on location details near Lone Pine, with side items on Erecta Denny’s target planes and early film industry gossip about Louise Allbritton, Coleen Gray, and Shirley Temple's plans.
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Andes
Weill
Biz
John Wayne
Jeast Avnce
Laraine Day
Wayne
Cedric Maruwicko
Laraine
Pauline
Fernanda Alvarado
Weudith Anderson
James’ Qlea
Anthony Quinn
Lone Pine
Golden Gate Park blooms and San Francisco landmarks
A readable survey of Golden Gate Park’s transformation under John McLaren, detailing its plants, water supply, and attractions like the aquarium and arboretum. Also in this note the novel Nightfall sketches a wartime backstory of thieves and self defense, with a wary romance.
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Golden Gate Park
Dunea
John McLaren
Golden Gate
Katherine Wilson
Aquarium
Academy of Sciences
Tmuseums
Temple of Music
Arboretum
Botanical Garden
San Francisco
Fac
Hot Shots Holiday Fan Club Opens for Servicemen
Hoosier Hot Shots inspired fans abroad by entertaining troops during the war. More than 9000 servicemen signed cards inviting messages to relatives, and upon return home the group hired secretaries to mail the letters. The practice still continues with some contacts.
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Ollywood
The
Hot Shots
Columbia
Idaho
Theuynanida
Roops
Mualclana
Long Beach Best Sellers List Fiction and Nonfiction
The Long Beach best seller list features fiction titles Hill of the Hawk by Scott O'Dell Hope of Earth by Margaret Lee Runbeck East Side West Side by Marcia Davenport The Bishop's Mantle by A S Turnbull Froud Destiny by Lion Feuchtwanger In nonfiction Peace of Mind by Joshua Litchman My L A by Matt Weinstock Human Destiny by Lecomte du No vy Home Country by Erita Pyle Inside U S A by John Gunther.
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Hill OF the Hawk
Scott O'Dell
Margaret Lee Runbeck
East Side
West Side
Marcia Davenport
A. S. Turnbull
Froud Destiny
Lion Feuchtwanger
Joshua Loth Lichman
L. A
Matt Weinstock
Lecomte du Novy
Erita Pyle
John Gunther
Beechhurst Publishes John Name Origin Book
The Beechhurst Press unveils a juvenile series on common proper names detailing origin, background, and biographies of famous men sharing the name. The inaugural volume centers on John with authors Hallie Erminie Rives and Gabrielle Ellijott Forbush.
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Beechhurst Press
John
Hallie Erminie Rives
Gabrielle Ellijott Forbush
New Lid Gets Old Treatment
Hollywood humorist Leo Gorcey bought a new hat but his friends immediately abused it. They yanked it off slammed it on again and pulled it down around his ears, making the hat look older than the old one within a few hours. He vows to wear the new style for ten years.
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Hollywood
Leo Gorcey
Columbia Album Features Jane Russell in Lets Put Out the Lights
Jane Russell earns fame without voice as she is featured on Columbia album Let Put Out the Lights singing softly on numbers like Do it Again and Two Sleepy People. Decca issues three folk albums with Ives and Marais. Minneapolis Orchestra under Mitropoulos performs Rachmaninoff second symphony. Barry Fitzgerald sings When You and I Were Young Maggie in The Sainted Sisters with Veronica Lake.
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Jane Russell
Columbia
Bass! Rathbone
Fagin
Charles Dickens
Decca
Burl Ives
West
Joe Hayes
Pete Scorper
Woody Guthrie
Ives
Mathilda
Australia
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Sergei Rachmaninoff
RCA Victor
Paramount
Barry Fitzgerald
Maggie
Alga
Veronica Lake
Pianists vie for 1500 prize fund at North American contest
The North American Prize Committee announces a July competition in San Francisco offering 1000 to first place 300 to second 200 to third. Donor Mrs Eleanor Pflugfelder funds prizes with sponsor E Robert Schmitz School of Piano. Preliminaries in May Los Angeles. Open to all nationalities with memory required for pieces from a US Canada Mexico list and Louise Talma’s First Piano Sonata to memory.
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Eleanor Pflugfelder
Long Ialand
E. Robert Schmitz School of Piano
San Francisco
Tina Aualyys
United States
Canada
Mexico
Louise Talma
Los Angeles
PEN
Los Angeles County
Exposition Park
American Art Quartet
Qothera
Seldel String Quartet
California Piano Quartet
Lacrosse Trio
New Art String Quartet
Waldo Latin
Unconquered Lusty Novel
New York基 publisher Spuniestay and Co releases Nell F H Swanson's Unconquered a brisk borderland adventure set along Virginia and Pennsylvania during the Pontiac Conspiracy. The tale follows renegade Martin Garth and figures like Washington and Sir William Johnson as Captain Chris Holden battles to carry peace belts. Based on history the work blends fact with vivid action and vivid appetites.
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Eel Swanson
Tidewater Land
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Martin Garth
Washington
Sir William Johnson
Chris Holden
America
Clothes for Movie to Cost Only $75
Hollywood notes say outfits for a film will run about 75 dollars as industry chatter hints at buying advertising in features. Nancy Sinatra may miss being matron of honor. Kate Smith and Janet Gaynor plot moves. Phil Silvers lands a comic lead. Sullivans alumni fade from news while James Cardwell rises in Harpoon Alaska.
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Nancy Sinatra
New York
Kitty Kallen
Budd Granoff
Phil Silvers
Rodably
Hollywood
Phil
HEE Producers’ Association
Genuus
Kate Smith
Nat (King) Cate
Janet Gaynor
Edward Ryan
Jack Campbell
John Alvin
George Offerman Jr
James Cardwell
Sullivan
Alaska
Long Beach Art Gallery Seeks City Help and Plans
The Art Association led by Lorne D. Middough pursues a city backed gallery in a park site or building. A gallery with display space, a 200 seat hall, classrooms and storage is envisioned as part of the master Civic Center plan with tax deductible memberships funding the effort. Joan Crawford is set to sing in Warner Bros. Until Proven Guilty.
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Long Beach
Art Association
Lorne D. Middough
lJlke
Middough
Ute Elty
California
George S. Cielanc
F. A. Thayer
Leslie H. Smith
Kenneth Vose
Earl Beebe
Joan Crawford
Warner Bros
Whiting Songs to Be Published by Daughter
Margaret Whiting plans to publish 400 to 500 unpublished Dick Whiting songs through her company. The composer known for Louise Sleepy Time Gal and She's Funny That Way died of a heart attack, leaving a vast unused catalog. Whiting’s works include Japanese Sandman and If We Meet Again, which sold millions.
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Louise Allbritton
Charles Collingwood
Coleen Gray
Hutchinson, Minn
Rodney Amateaur
Galveston
Panama Canal
Dick Whiting
Tollywood
Margaret Whiting
Whiting
Tin Pan Alley
Los Angeles
Margaret
Barbara
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the Daniels
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Eginald
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Servnes
Blandings
Shirley Temple
John Agar
Agar
Henry Miller
Big Sur
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Paris
Miller
Coldenath
Atherins Winone Tie Caxton Printers, Ltd
Cardwall
David Coody
Newyork
Ward Jager
Weer
Ward Moore
Great Britain
Mr. Moore
Jurl Bionimsky
Oihere
Pittoraphica Library
Jurl Slonimsky
Moscow Ballet
Fanasiana
Soviet Russia
Balletomane
Ballets Russe
Howard Breslin
Whitrismy House
Tippecanoe
Tyler
Literary Guild
Stratton Mountain
Vermont
Thera
Juve
Bolind
Arner, Bros
Mary
Valley Studio
New Yorker
Magane
Ronald Reagan
Jane Wyman
Jack Carson
Wayne Morris
Edward Arnold
Hakinson
Miss Hakinson
Jerry Wald
Warners
Marlene Dietrich
Frederick Hollander
Hollander
Misa Dietrich
Marlene
Berlin
Jean Arthur
John Lund
Tchaikovsky
Ropes
Alana
Alan
Ladd
Whispering Smith
Janet Blair
Columbia: Pictures Actrets
Red Skelton
Gale Storm
Lovely Allied Artists
King Brothers
By Mary Lou Zehms
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Charles Muench
Jeanne d'Arc Au
Nell F H. Swanson
Spuniestay #& Co
State of the Union
Oatlaw
Lawrence Tierney
Rita Johnson
Marsha Hunt
Goldwyn
Joan
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