Major League City Status Questioned by Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice questions traditional major league labels noting Baltimore outdraws St. Louis and Los Angeles outruns other cities in sports interest. He argues for real strength by attendance and contemplates a revolt to form a true major league system led by cities like Los Angeles Baltimore San Francisco and Buffalo.
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Lana Turner lauded as Pin-up Queen and starry film lineup announced
Western Newspaper Union reports Lana Turner embraced motherhood boosting glamour amid fan letters and requests for photos of her baby Cherry. The piece previews Paramount National Barn Dance with Pat Buttram and siblings, Radio Theater adaptation of I Never Left Home with Bob Hope, and collaborations joining Fred Allen in a United Artists comedy It's in the Bag with Jack Benny and Rudy Vallee.
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Cherry
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Joe Kelly
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C. B. de Mille
Radio Theater
Bob Hope
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Jack Benny
Rudy Vallee
Fred Allen
Benny
Vallee
United Artists
Allen
Three Good Pictures Reel in a Busy Week
Paramount releases To Have and Have Not and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, with Lauren Bacall's breakout appeal. 20th Century Fox brings Laura, a top notch murder mystery. Alan Young rises in radio linking with Duffys Tavern while Dean Murphy heads MGM Screen Test under a political impersonation ban.
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Laura
Humphrey Bogart
Hemingway
Lauren Bacall
Gene Tierney
Dean Murphy
Ceremone
Murphy
Metro Bigwigs
Roosevelt
Odds and Ends from a Film Page
Sonny Tufts wanted to buy a 1906 auto used in Miss Susie Slagles but the owner would not sell. Tufts earns 25 dollars a day renting the car to studios. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy plan holiday camp shows on Christmas Day. Columbia is wrapping Our Wandering Daughters about juvenile delinquency. Patrick Knowles stars in Half a Hollywood production with Errol Flynn’s brother in Robin Hood. The Alan Ladds name their baby Alana meaning beloved one.
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Susie Slagles
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Columbia
America
Patrick Knowles
Develse Halfwoood
Pley
Errol Flynn
Alan Ladds
Alana
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