Staced Screenrads prompts stars to quit when right
Hollywood gossip recalls many actors who left studios for better roles. Allan Jones Margaret Lindsay Cary Grant Jean Arthur Dick Powell Joan Blondell Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard Basil Rathbone Marie Wilson Madeleine Carroll Deanna Durbin Joe Pasternak Metro Warner’s Paramount all feature in the narrative. Doris Dudley hosts a party amid fadeouts and killers in New York. Frank Readick, once a famed villain, exits the studio scene.
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Bios
Hollywood
Allan Jones
Metro
Margaret Lindsay
Warner Brothers
Cary Grant
Jean Arthur
Paramount
Dick Powell
Joan Blondell
Fred Astaire
RKO
Paulette Goddard
Hal Roach
Basil Rathbone
Marie Wilson
Warners
Virginia
Madeleine Carroll
Walter Wanger
Deanna Durbin
Joe Pasternak
Sweaters Gain New Popularity In Formal and Casual Wear
A 1940 fashion feature notes sweaters rising in popularity for all occasions from mountain trips to formal dinners. It highlights varied styles including college seal cardigans, long torso jerkin and matching woolknit ensembles, evening jackets, and chic two tone accessories with gloss beads.
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Smith, Vassar
University of California, Wellesley
Western Newspaper Union
I Wanted Wings and Footsteps in the Dark Screen Pairings
Paul Mantz remains the likely pilot to handle crashes in I Wanted Wings while Peggy Diggins stars opposite Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark. The British anticipate Chaplin in The Great Dictator as Gone With Wind marks its 18th London week amid air raids.
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Paul Mantz
Peggy Diggins
Warner
America
Errol Flynn
Te Chaplin
London
Twin Coats Hats Show Matching Modern Style Trend
Two young people wear identical hats and coordinated coats, a current fad this season. The piece notes women often order their jackets and suits to mirror men's tailoring, highlighting the growing trend in fashion circles.
Costume Jewelry Sparkles Brightly
Fashion notes describe jeweled sleeve clips and matching pieces for necks lapels and ears. The piece is a large wrist clip with coordinated accessories. gold and silver necklaces and multi strand pearls appear, while coral topaz and amber hues complement autumn wardrobes.
Fur Capes Rival Jackets for Favor
The fashion note compares fur capes with jackets as the season’s popular wrap. Capes appear hip to shoulder length and full length for evening wear include ermine seal or Persian lamb. Casual wear favors spotted fur capes with matching muff and knee length sports wear versions in colorful wool linings.
First Aid for Rugs and Home Repairs Tips
A reader describes rug storage in the southern climate using vacuum cleaning, ammonia damp cloth, moth crystals, and newspaper wrapping. The column also provides guidance on oil burner selection, tool storage, brass piping issues, cement apron construction, roof leak fixes, and stone-front cleaning.
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Maine
South Carolina
Fashionable PORTS accessories for campus and runabout
Smart young trendsetters embrace PORTS style with a weskit calot and mittens. Design No. 1265 B offers easy DIY pieces trimmed with stitching. Choose felt, flannel or suede in varied colors for a personal, fashionable set.
Work Is Noble Quote Echoes on Dignity of Labor
A saying attributed to Carlyle extols every form of labor, including cotton spinning, as noble and valuable for its own sake, framing work as a moral ideal rather than a mere means to ends.
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Carlyle
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Knox Manning
Tay Garnett
Richard Rowland
Miss Bishop
Yale
Beirne Lay Jr
Air Corps
Randolph Field
Kelly
New York City
Doris Dudley
The
Air
Mr. Meek
George Weinberg
Underworld
Frank Readick
Shadow
By Cherie Nicholas
Roger B. Whitman
WNN Service
Portland Cement Association
Madison Avenue
Chicago
West Grand Avenue
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
ST Joseph
J. M.ark
Southland Hotel
Joe Hallamen
Mgr
Dallas
Kent Blades
Lai Fykas
Farm Radio
Philco
Phitee Radio & Television Corporation
Philadelphia
Phi
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