Hollywood couple return from war fronts as pattern for others
Director Leslie Fenton and actress Ann Dvorak, among the first Hollywood pairs back from active duty, share their postwar plans and memories. They married in 1931 after meeting on set, with Fenton directing later and Ann continuing acting.
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Hollywood
Leslie Fenton
Ann Dvorak
Fenton
England
English Channel
Scotland
St. Nazaire
King George
Buckingham Palace
M-G-M
Wallace Beery
Warner’s
San Fernando Valley
Britain
Mechanized Transport Corps
Ann
Lester Cowan
James Cagney
Edward G. Robinson
Underworld
Molly Louvain
Walter Pidgeon
Lew Ayres
Private Papers of Private Purkey and a War Time Reading List
A veteran writes Harriet about mock reading lists approved for GIs, noting magazines like Better Homes and Gardens and National Geographic among comics and weeklies, and joking about misplacements. The piece includes a satirical dialogue between Shimada and Tojo and a brief chronology ending with Fortress Europe through 1945.
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National Geographic
House and Garden
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1998 Dress Adapts to Many Sizes
An ad for Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1998 describes a matron style dress with a neck detail designed to elongate the figure. It offers summer pastel options in rayon or cotton and lists sizes 36 through 52 with size 38 short sleeves needing 3 4 yards of 39 inch fabric.
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Barbara Bell
Barbara Bell Pattern 1991 for 2 6 year olds
The pattern offers a brother and sister play set in cotton for ages 2 to 6. Barbara Bell Pattern No 1991 includes sizes 2 to 6 with a boys overalls blouse and a girls jumper plus yardage requirements for 36 inch material.
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Barbara Bell
Monument to Champion Swapper of This Age
The International Exchange in Granville Illinois honors trader Redshaw famed for rapid trades. Over 24 years he turned a dozen 25 cent fountain pens into a warehouse of furs gems paintings statuary and rugs. One unseen deal swapped a houseboat in India for a banana plantation in Central America then for Detroit real estate.
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International Exchange
Granville
Ill
Redshaw
Collier's
India
Central America
Detroit
Dressing Table Skirt Pattern 5757 Instructions
Sewing circle notice offers Dressing Table Skirt pattern 5757 with complete instructions and decorator finishing tips. Send 16 cents plus name address and pattern number 5757. war delays affect delivery for popular patterns.
Waffles with Cream Cheese Cherry Jam Dessert Tip
The passage notes waffles topped with cream cheese plus cherry or blueberry jam, with abundant cheese and jam and no butter. It also includes home care tips for milk recovery, drying pans, braising meat, removing grease from fabrics, whitening clothes with turpentine, and avoiding wet awnings to prevent mildew.
Rome’s Monument to Victor Emmanuel II Costs 5 Million
Rome’s grand monument to Victor Emmanuel II dominates a square block and rises like an 18 story building. Built of white marble it features sculpted groups reliefs and a massive equestrian statue. Costing 5 million dollars it took 26 years of work and dedication in 1911.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel II
Italy
Collier’s
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Ywood
Europe
London
Berlin
C. B. de Mille
Pancho Villa
Mexico
C. B
Villa
Ann Dvorak and
Harriet
Washington
Click
Captain Midnight
Dare Devil
Country Gentleman
Harper’s
Funny Animals
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Ladies Home Journal
Hitler
Oscar P. S
Wow Comics
Colliers
the American Medical Journal
Ten Story Western
Nifty
Harper’s Bazaar
Shimada
Tojo
White House
Pearl Harbor
Bretton Woods Monetary Conference
Fortress
Europe, Africa and
Asia
Africa and
America
Europe and
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Tony
Fred Palmer
Galenol
Dept. T
Atlanta
Eee Mung
al Good Housekeeping
Denne Tt
Fin
Veronica Lake
Paramount
Sewing Circle Needlework
McKesson & Robbins
Bridgeport, Conn
Mierint Dente
Sui
Snes
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