Hollywood extras find work as war plant laborers
A high proportion of film extras are now taking factory jobs to aid the war effort. At Columbia a banquet scene for The Power of the Press featured 150 dressed-up extras, many studying about submarine sinking between takes. The article highlights actors Pat O'Brien Irene Dunne Raymond Massey Esther Williams and others in current productions.
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Hollywood
Columbia
Lee Tracy
Gloria Gibson
Guy Kibbee
Otto Kruger
Pat O’brien
Wisconsin
New York
Patterns from Sewing Circle for a child jerkin outfit
Small edition pattern No. 8239 offers a jerkin with side buttons a contrasting blouse and a simple skirt for sizes 2 to 6 years. The pattern requires mixed yardage from 35 or 39 inch fabrics and 54 inch material for the skirt and blouse.
Subconscious Training Helps Sleepwalker Avoid Dangers
A somnambulist trained his subconscious with a tub of cold water beside the bed to wake during sleepwalking. The method initially worked but then his subconscious forced him to exit on the opposite side of the bed, seen in Collier's report.
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Collier’s
Sewing Pattern Request From Panam Pattern Dept
A Panam Pattern Dept at 211 West Wacker Drive Chicago offers sewing patterns. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired with the Pattern No and Address.
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Panam
West Wacker Dr
Chicago
Chinese Rights Clash in New York Business Rentals
Collier's reports immigrants in New York City claim a basic property right to lease storefronts and other business buildings. They refuse to rent to other Chinese until purchasing this right, often demanding thousands of dollars which owners seldom recover by renting to Chinese tenants.
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New York City
Collier’s
Handy Household Hints From Everyday Life
Practical tips cover sanding tools, butter substitutes, and custard flavoring with bay leaves. Store garden soil with compost for winter potting, slice rolled or standing roasts thinly, and flour fruits and nuts evenly in cakes. Enhance vegetables with oil, avoid soaking uncooked veg, seal leaky chimneys, and paint rooms with careful prep and brush care. Maintain plant moisture with porous pots and keep temperatures near 68 degrees.
Quick World History Quiz Answers
The con cerned with mantic arts is divination and omen reading. Salem in poetry refers to Salem Massachusetts. A Jap’s bushido is a samurai code of conduct. Nineteen people were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Independence-era Dolley Madison who kept her name is remembered. Lupine refers to a wolfish plant, not animal. The largest island in the Philippines is Luzon. Settlers in Massachusetts Bay Colony combined into a civil body politick. The world famous novelist who began writing late is Herman Melville. The grave inscription refers to Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb.
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Philippines
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