Strickland and Barlow Highlight Wartime and Music Figures
A profile of Brigadier General Ruby Casey Strickland noting his WWII bomber command role and a salute to conductor nemuea Barlow, with early life, career, and links to American music at CBS. Also a physician-like parental guidance note from Dr Eduard Lindeman on talking with children about war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Casey Strickland
Strickland
Rommel
United States Army Air Forces
Eduard C. Lindeman
New York School of Social Work
Michigan Agricultural College
Detroit
Lansing
Hollywood Roundup of Stars and New Deals in War Time
ARD leads Hollywood back to the screen as stars enlist or are reassigned. Columbia unveils Robert Hymes in Whats Buzzin Cousin with Ann Miller, Harris and Orchestra, and Rochester. Metro casts James Davis in Salute to the Marines and Swing Shift Maizie. Franchot Tone faces wartime pay limits after signing for Warner. Georgia Gibbs signs a CBS Caravan Hour contract and acts in a new role. Myrna Loy widens no more pictures, Irene Dunne slated for Thin Man. Beatrice Kay to film in New Orleans, Lanny Ross teases her conga, and Jane Wyatt in Navy Comes Through has sold 5,000 feet of color birds film to RKO.
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Hollywood
Columbia
Robert Hymes
Freddy Martin
Ann Miller
Phil Harris
Rochester
Metro
James Davis
Kansas City
Maizie
Jane Wyatt
Navy
RKO
Young ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale wins early fame
Eddie Cantor notes discovering 15 year old Shirley Dinsdale, praised by Edgar Bergen as a natural ventriloquist with NBC San Francisco programs. Gig Young imagines facing former customers in Los Angeles, Bette Davis credits her mother as photographer, and Jean Arthur stars in Merry-Go-Round with cream on her face in multiple scenes.
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Eddie Cantor
Shirley Dinsdale
Edgar Bergen
San Francisco
NBC
Gig
Arive
Los Angeles
Bette Davis
Jean Arthur
Modoc War Anniversary Recalled as Costly 1872 Clash
Western Newspaper Union marks the 70th anniversary of the Lava Beds conflict in Oregon where Modocs and U S forces clashed. Capt. Jack led defense at Lost River, Canby was killed in a treacherous attack, and the Modocs’ resistance ended with executions and high costs to the government.
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Ae Dew Mac
United States
Oregon
Klamaths
Kintpuash
Capt
Jack
Lost River Country
Maj
John Green
Fort Klamath
James Jackson
First Cavalry
F. A. Boutelle
Ivan Applegate
Jackson
Lost River
Applegate
Scar- Faced Charley
Boutelle
Scar-Faced
Bogus Charley
Charley
Modoc
E. R. S. Canby
Canby
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Lemuel F. Parton
York
Jimmy Doolittle
Francis X. Bushman
Braggs
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic College
Army
Reserve Corps
Regular Army
New York Philharmonic
Hinterland
Oh Ong Ee E Ng
Nemuea Barlow
Carnegie Hall
Barlow
CBS Orchestra
National Association For Composers and Conductors
Plain City
Ohio
Colorado
Denver
University of Colorado
Reed College
Columbia University
New York
Peterborough
N. Y
AEF
American National Orchestra
CBS
Philharmonic
Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Franchot Tone
Franchot
Georgia Gibbs
Bill Bacher
Lanny Ross
Miss Gibbs
Georgia
Mr. Ross
Myrna Loy
William Powell
Irene Dunne
Beatrice Kay
New Orleans
Leslie Brooks
Linda Darnell
Doris Dudley
Glenda Farrell
Charles ‘Boyer
Joan Fontaine
Alexis Smith
Brenda Marshall
Jean Muir
Joyce Reynolds
Council of Chiefs of the
Navajo Reservation
Barry Carey
U. S
Oran
London
Chicago
Algeria
Mediterranean
Algiers
America
Wilds
New Caledonia
Henry H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Alexander Patch Jr
United Nations Forces
John 8. McCain
U. S. Navy
Australia
Jimmy Wilde Jr
Desert
Jimmy Wilde
Egypt
Jimmy Jr
Josef Stalin
Moscow
Soviet
Africa
Josef V. Stalin
Soviet Union
Stalin
Socialist Labor
North
Tom
Jimmy Richards
Jeffers
Italy
Carlo Sforza
New Guinea
Lloyd Thompson
Troy
Texas
Maude Patterson
Weatherley
Thein
Pinto
Little Mar II
Dr. Beholl
Ayero Ey
Goethe
Housewives
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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