Rita Hayworth Gene Kelly May Spark New Dance Craze in Cover Girl
Hollywood notes that history may repeat as Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly shine in Cover Girl. The piece traces dance icons from Irene and Vernon Castle to Mae Murray Valentino and Ginger Rogers, noting Kelly’s breakthrough performance and the film's potential to ignite another nationwide dance fad.
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America
Vernon Castles
Rita Hayworth
Gene Kelly
Deb
Irene
Vernon Castle
Vernon
Hollywood
Mae Murray
Nell Brinkley
Bob Leonard
George Fitzmaurice
Mae
Dolores del Rio
Gene Raymond
Rio
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Jerome Kern
Roberta
Terpsichore
Toumanova
Russian Ballet
Zorina
Baronova
Ann Miller
Columbia
Kay Kyser
Joey
Rita
Gene
Porch Suppers Provide Simple Summer Feasts On The Porch
Homemakers plan porch suppers with bright cloths fruit bowls and candles to create a homey social atmosphere. Recipes include barbecued chicken veal skewers beet greens wilted greens mixed spring greens and a strawberry meringue pie with a meat pie option. Menu tips emphasize one platter meals and self service, with Lynn Chambers’ Veal on Skewers as a featured dish and a call to request her meat roasting chart.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Wacs as Better Wives Stir Debate Across Ranks
A wartime column quotes Lieut Col Walter Jaeger praising WAC wives while Private Oscar Purkey skeptical about military marriage. Arlene of the WACs weighs independence postwar, suggesting a husband may now feel overshadowed by a military partner. Other notes cover a jail case, an old gasoline energizer scam tale, Nazi weapon claims, and a freed druggist.
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Wacs
Walter Jaeger
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Army Industrial College
Arlene
Lynn Shays Spring Vegetable Tips
Lynn Shays offers kitchen tips for spring vegetables. Cut string beans with scissors to save time and fingers. Blanch carrots for 2 to 3 minutes to ease peeling. Leave two inches of beet stems to preserve color while boiling. Reuse old coffee percolators to steam asparagus for tender stalks. Warm water cleans spinach more effectively, removing sand from leaves.
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Rudolph Valentino
Rex Ingram
Joan Crawford
Coconut Grove
Mark Twain
Julia Marlowe
E. H. Sothern
Walt Disney
Disney
Oscar Purkey
WAC
G.I
Boston
San Francisco
Bob Hyman
New Haven
New England
Hitler
Lynn Shays
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
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Fred Mers
Druggista
Galenol
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Atlanta
Fred Palmer
St. Ne
St. Joseph
Kellogg’s
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Royal
Stanso
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