Wingate and Churchill Era Figures Capturing Public Eye
A vivid montage profiles Brigadier Orde Wingate linking him to Boer era style, jungle raids, Lawrences of Arabia ties, and British posture in Burma. It contrasts Wingate with Frank Bane of the Council of State Governments, praising his postwar admin style and rocking chairs.
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York
Orde Charles Tue - Gate
Daniel Boone
Lawrence of Arabia
Bay of Bengal
Bane
Stassen
Frank
Virginia
Randolph-Macon College
Columbia University
Council of State Governments
Land Bridge Across Pacific
In a narrative from Collier's Weekly, Corey Ford details U S Army Engineers building a base on Kiska Island in the Aleutians, with Japanese fortifications and a westward drive by a large Allied flotilla. The tempo rises as August ends with landings, fighter aircraft arrive, and early air strikes target Allied and Japanese positions amid harsh seas and weather.
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Aleutians
Kiska Island
Salmon Lagoon
Japan
Narukima
Andreanos Group
Kiska
Alaska
U. S
Navy
Tokyo
Roosevelt
Stages Screen Radio picks up stars in old time air
Virginia Vale notes TV and radio crossovers with Claire Trevor in Mayor of the Town and Zasu Pitts’s comeback in Lets Face It. Mary Martin and Dick Powell sing on True to Life set while George Reeves recalls early film struggles before So Proudly We Hail. Universal reconsiders My Man Godfrey with Deanna Durbin and Tone.
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Paramount
Mary Martin
Dick Powell
Johnny Mercer
Hogg Carmichael
George Reeves
Claudette Colbert
Universal
My Girl Godfrey
Carole Lombard
Deanna Durbin
Franchot Tone
Pat O’brien
Stars in the Service on Screen Snapshots Volume 23
The film showcases nearly all male stars and players in uniform in Columbia’s Screen Snapshots Series 23rd year. Ralph Staub produced directed and photographed the 565th short. Ray Noble announces Warner Bros. will film The Very Thought of You, written in 1934. The Andrews Sisters return to radio on June 30 on CBS Carnival with Morton Gould.
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Columbia
Ralph Staub
Ray Noble
Charlie McCarthy
Warner Bros
Ray
Andrews Sisters
Morton Goiald
CBS
Hollywood
Universal
Odds and Ends From the Screen and Airwaves
The birthplace of the hero in The Story of Dr Wassell is shown as an old barn used by C B De Mille for his first film. John Nesbitt returns The Passing Parade June 29 for 13 weeks replacing Fibber McGee and Molly. Jean Parker offered her St Bernard to the Army as a war tie. Jackie Heer Kelk of The Aldrich Family will vacation in Hollywood to make pictures.
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Dr. Wassell
C. B. de Mille
John Nesbitt
Fibber Mee
Molly
Jean Parker
St. Bernard
Jackie
Heer) Kelk
Aldrich
Hollywood
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Who’s News
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features
WIN
Wingate
Palestine
Abyssinia
Trim Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Wavell
Burma
Lancashire
Lana Paterson
Sfretty
Sir Archibald Sinclair
Dickens
Poe
Germany
Sir Archibald
Air
Mabel Sands
New York
London
Archibald
Herring
Eton
Sandhurst
Thurso Castle
Liberal Party
Pilsen
Mannheim
Dortmund
Dusseldorf
Pacific
By Corey Ford
Collier's Weekly
Suspicio
Joan Crawfodge
John von Broitch
North Africa
von Broitch
Cramer
von Brouch
UMW
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Economic Stabilization
James F. Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
William B. Scoggins
Corp
Vernon D. Tilford
Los Angeles
Calif
Robert G. Ussery
Rockingham
N. C
Raymond Deadman
Boston
Mass
Halloran Hospital
Staten Island
N. Y
America
Vera Anderson
Washington, D. C
Attu Island
United States
Jack Moesch
Baltimore Orioles
Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Berlin
George Sanders
Sanders
al Green
Mr. Sanders
Claire Trevor
Edward G. Robinson
Lionel Barrymore
Zasu Pitts
Zasu
Lookout Mountain
Tennecses
Batks
Hitchcock
Tonio Lamore
Pan
Rhosanda
Spurlock-Neal Co
Ville, Tenn
WNU
Doan
Doans
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