Sew and Sew club aids servicemen in war effort
Hollywood and radio figures join Penny Singleton to sew uniforms and perform wartime tasks for troops on leave. Joe Howard sells film rights to a past hit. Dick Haymes signs a seven year film contract after early radio and screen tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Penny Singleton
Blondie
The
Air
Screen
Penny
Joe Howard
Joe
CBS
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dick Haymes
20Th Century-Fox
Haymes
Tommy Dorsey
Screen Guild Players
Hooper and Crossley
Screen Actors Guild
Ella Mae Morse Dickered By Film Firms For Baby Movie Use
Ella Mae Morse bargains with two film companies while a third negotiates to use her four month old baby in a film. Feodor Chaliapin Jr. will portray a Russian soldier in United Artists The Girl From Leningrad. Neil Hamilton plans a comeback with a role as the husband in Since You Went Away. Thelma Schnee joins NBCs Snow Village in rural New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Mae Morse
Johnny Mercer
Ella Mae
Feodor Chaliapin
United Artists
Leningrad
Neil Hamilton
Thelma Schnee
New York
NBC
First Aid for the Ailing House and Home Repair Tips
A home owners guide covers stopping a condensation drip from a cold toilet tank by replacing the inlet washer or repairing the outlet. It advises on gas range burner adjustment, using an engineer’s test, and cautions against chemical drain cleaners. It also suggests yeast startup for septic tanks and lists sources for patriotic prints and basement playroom literature.
Mussolini Exit Ends Two Decades of Fascist Rule
Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy for 21 years, resigned on July 25 1943 handing power to King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Badoglio. The move ends Fascism as the regime collapses amid war defeats and growing Italian opposition.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Dictcr
Germany
Fascist Council
Mussolini
Marshal
Pietro Badoglio
Fasci Italiano di Combattimento
Predappio
Romagna
Socialist Party
Avanti
Fiume
Britain
France
Tional Assembly
Signor Facta
Rome
Civitavecchia
Facta
Badoglio
Il Duce
Mussolini Loses Grip as Italian War Effort Falls Short
The piece traces Mussolini’s imperial aims from Ethiopia to the Rome Berlin axis, Italy’s wartime campaigns in Africa and Sicily, and the shrinking support for Fascism as Allied advances and bombings erode domestic morale. It notes defections from Russian and North African fronts and public weariness with war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethiopia
Mussolini
League
Hitler
Italy
Germany
Neville Chamberlain
France
Roosevelt
Russia
North Africa
Africa Corps
Fascism
Sicily
Rome
Duce
Mussolini Accepts Hitler as Master After War Talks
A tired Mussolini, nearing sixty, met Hitler months ago in a war conference and now acknowledges the German as his master. Italy has been a vassal state for four years, and Mussolini may foresee his own downfall amid these anxious discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Hitler
der Fuehrer
Italy
Upgrading a combination living and bedroom unit
The sketch shows space efficient furniture with a bed storage box made of plywood padded with cotton batting and covered to match. Unpainted book cases would flank the ends and the bed lid would be painted to match. The note contrasts money not buying bright ideas and promotes Book 10 of homemaking booklets offering over thirty more projects.
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Senate
Rapa
Bonita Granville
Anne Shirley
Kent Smith
Rita Corday
Edward Dmytryk
Lou Crosby
Casey Robinson
RKO
Crosby
Betty Rhodes
OWL
Alaska
Ireland
Africa
Kate Smith
Cecil Brown
Count Ciano
Dino Grande
Marshal Badoglio
Roger B. Whitmen
Army-Navy
Post
New York City
Paul Revere
Popular Mechanic
Fifth Avenue
By Elliott J. Pine
League of Nations
Greece
North
Adolf Hitler
National Socialists
Nazis
Austria
Ruth Wyeth
Istumo
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Lorimer
Pee A Lee Esa
National Bureau of Standards
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