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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1942
Page
17
A new Paramount picture My Favorite Blonde stars Madeine Carroll showing at the Paramount Theater Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. The comedic plot follows a staged confrontation with lighthearted mischief and a playful note on romantic rivalries.
The Technicolor epic To the Shores Of Tripoli directed by Bruce Humberstone stars John Payne Maureen OHar a Randolph Scott with Nancy Kelly William Tracy Maxie Rosenbloom plus Henry Morgan Edmund MacDonald Russell Hicks and Minor Watson. Filmed largely at the San Diego marine base the picture is produced by Darryl F Zanuck with Lamar Trott script based on Steve Fishers story. The Capitol theater opens today and Monday with patriotic fit for all Americans.
Scientists propose that shifts in Earth's crust moved the North Pole over Greenland causing Ice Ages. The claim links crustal displacement to repeated global cooling events, though theories vary among researchers.
Big Bill Dieterle stages a climactic jam of seven top American jazz stars for the film Syncopation at Paramount. Benny Goodman Joe Venuti Charles Barnet Gene Krupa Alvino Rey Harry James Jack Jenny join Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville and Adolphe Menjou in a nationwide swing showcase filmed in New York as part of a broader portrait of American popular music from New Orleans to Chicago.
Cordite, a high explosive made from nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, is described as being used as chewing gum by girls employed in munitions factories.
A dense schedule lists daily film lineups with stars such as Charles Barnet Benny Goodman Harry James Jack Jenny Gene Krupa Adolphe Menjou Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville George Bancroft Connie Boswell Ted North Hall Johnson choir and more. Major titles include Syncopation My Favorite Blonde The Turtles of Tahiti Juke Girl They All Kissed the Bride To the Shores of Tripoli Canal Zone The Male Animal Smiley Stardust on the Sage Below the Deadline Son of Davy Crockett Geronimo Death of a Champion Room Town Our Wife Honeymoon in Bali Pacific Blackout Moon Over Burma Riders of the Badlands and more across Capitol Joy and Delta venues.
A truck rollover near Goss ten miles north of Columbia Mississippi killed 11 year old Lemon Wagley and injured seven others including his sister. The Wagley family from Goss reported the crash today as authorities investigated the incident.
London University leads England in annual income at 9.6 million dollars, ranking first among English colleges. Cambridge follows in second place and Oxford third in this wealth survey.
The story explains the New York police deadline created by Former Police Commissioner Devery restricting criminals to stay north of 14th Street, now backed by Browell law. Ewart Adamson’s screen thriller Below The Deadline dramatizes a robbery and a frame-up shown at the Jay theater with Cecilia Parker headlining.
John St Polis Kathryn Sheldon Rob er Frazer Charles Delaney Robert Homans Jack Gardner Al Thorpson Sidney Payne Phyllis Crane Charles McAvoy Harry Strang Harry Hearn Jack Shutta Frances Sayles listed among engaged participants in an unidentified gathering or game.
June 6 reports a flood of selling orders in the cotton futures session in New Orleans. Prices tumbled more than 2.50 a hale after the opening, signaling a sharp break in market activity during the short session.
Corporal Richard C Harrington of the U S Marines, denied passage to China in 1929, stowed away and reached as far as Hawaii before being detected. The incident highlights wartime travel restrictions and individual attempts to bypass them.
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