Anita Loos and Roger Putnam in spotlight for shifts in film and management
Anita Loos, famed author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, created the successful screenplay that turned her manuscript into a global sensation earning over $600,000. Roger L. Putnam of Springfield, a dynamic mayor and defense director, promotes civilian-military coordination and rapid management reform drawing on his experiences with floods and a hurricane.
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Wizard of electrometallurgy Dr Francis C Frary
Dr Francis C Frary directs the Aluminum Company of America research laboratories at Keystone Pennsylvania since 1918. His work has enabled more than two thousand uses for aluminum and expedited defense. He studied at the University of Minnesota and the University of Berlin and spent seven years teaching before joining industrial research in 1915.
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Hollywood Casting Buzz Highlights Crawford Garson Pairing
Virginia Vale reports on Joan Crawford and Greer Garson teaming for When Ladies Meet and notes other star movements including Katharine Hepburn preparing The Woman of the Year Miriam Hopkins exit from Bad Lands and Maude Adams retirement flirtations.
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Two World War II film stars return as radio recruiters
Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen, once impersonating marines as Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg in What Price Glory, now reprise those personas on a radio program. The weekly feature promotes recruiting by showing modern corps life, appealing to fans of the film.
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Jack Smart Avoids Double Speeding Fine After Judge’s Leniency
CBS actor Jack Smart faced a judge twice for speeding. Unable to pay the first fine he returned home to raise funds, then received a second ticket en route to a radio rehearsal. The judge again released him, easing the fines.
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Early Hollywood Moves Highlight Debuts and Contracts
Cleo Manning makes her cinematic debut kissed by Clark Gable in Honky Tonk. Metro tests youth in Down in San Diego with amateur detectives uncovering a Nazi band amid defense activity. Lili Damita and Sean Leslie Flynn leave hospital to return to Errol Flynn. Mona Maris of Warner Bros to star in two films, Ann Sothern lands new Metro contract, and Richard Arlen signs for three Paramount melodramas.
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Yellow Wolf Story Redefines Nez Perce Heroism
The piece profiles Yellow Wolf, cousin and lieutenant of Chief Joseph, who led Nez Perce holdouts toward Canada in 1877. It notes his postwar life, his cooperation with frontier historian L. McWhorter, and the Caxton Printers book Yellow Wolf His Own Story that reframes the war’s history and portrays Nez Perce humane treatment of noncombatants.
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