Bath scenes and radios spark on screen history
Virginia Vale notes how classic films stage bath scenes from The Women to The Howards of Virginia with creative license. Cary Grant’s tavern bath in a wooden tub diverges from period detail, while Sam Wood bans radios on Rangers of Fortune for wartime realism.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Joan Crawford
Virginia
Cary Grant
Elizabeth Page
Frank Lloyd
Raleigh
Williamsburg
America
Arch
Potomac River
Lloyd
Hoyle
Motion
Sam Wood
Rangers of Fortune
Ners
Media notes of Patricia Morison and broadcast quirks
Patricia Morison and Frederic March donate to the American Red Cross with a ready ambulance for Europe. Morison discusses listening to war bulletins with cousins in the Royal Air Force. Fibber McGee’s time jokes and other radio tidbits are highlighted along with TV premieres and radio schedules. Isabel Manning Hewson rises as NBC commentator. Musical Americana relocates to New York with ticket options at the Westinghouse building.
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Patricia Morison
Royal Air Force
Frederic March
American Red Cross
Europe
Fibber McGee
Fibber
Patsy Kelly
Hal Roach
Warner Brothers
Heaven
Bette Davis
Charles Boyer
John Garfield
Isabel Manning Hewson
Isabel
NBC
New York
Westinghouse
Radio City
Home Canning How To Preserve Fruits And Vegetables At Home
Practical guide on basic canning and preserving methods with equipment tips and tested recipes for tomato soup sweet pantry slices strawberry rhubarb conserve quick strawberry jam sunless sun preserves rhubarb butter and chili sauce including sterilizing jars sealing and storing for best shelf life.
Better Baking cookbook by Eleanor Howe offer
Send for your copy of Better Baking by Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago. Test ed recipes for Mountain Muffins Cheese Roll Biscuits Peanut Butter Bread and Hot Cinnamon Rolls promised with 10 cents sent to the address.
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Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Kitchen Cabinet Care Through Simple Polish Rubs
A quick method to refresh dulled kitchen cabinets is to rub them occasionally with furniture polish. This renews the glassy finish and makes future cleanings easier.
Welsh rarebit cheese melting tip
To prevent stringy cheese, melt it in the sauce after removing the pan from the flame. This small step helps smooth and integrate cheese into the sauce for a creamier finish.
Fresh bread for sandwiches chilled to ease slicing
Instructions suggest placing bread intended for sandwiches in the refrigerator for one hour. Chilled bread firms enough to cut cleaner with less crumbling.
Flood Control and Home Repair Q&A Digest
A compiled Q and A on flood control methods and do it yourself repairs. Topics include contacting the U S Department of Agriculture for information, restoring paintings and prints, linoleum stretching, waterproofing a concrete garage roof, plastering over painted walls, rodent control, safe wood storage in cellars, shingle spacing and oiling, and differences between ready cut and prefabricated houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger B. Whitmah
WTU
Question and Answer Quiz From Ask Me Another
A general knowledge quiz asks about visibility of sound waves cannon salutes fingerprint patterns Tippecanoe battle state animal called bear's little brother meaning of nolo contendere milk delivery in India and origin of the term pupil of the eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tippecanoe
India
Industrial Diamonds Use Across Industrial Works
Industrial diamonds or defective stones are widely used in industrial establishments for tracing grinding wheels mineral boring and wire drawing dies. They are also employed in glass beveling works cutting glass optical horological machinery and in cutting fiber metals and hard compositions.
Spark photography reveals intense sound wave visuals
Indiana near Lafayette yields a study where twenty one prints show as many as five standard nine prints on one man. The raccoon earns a note for bearlike gait. A pupil term origin is traced to pupilla meaning little doll, reflecting an image in another’s cornea.
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Indiana
Lafayette
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