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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1945
Page
3
Metro MGM’s Without Love starring Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn and Lucille Ball comes to the Palace Sunday through Wednesday. The modern comic romance from Donald Ogden Stewart adapts Philip Barry’s Broadway hit with a witty plot about a scientist and a woman who clash over marriage.
Two features on the mid week program include Summer Storm starring George Sanders Linda Darnell Anna Lee Edward Everett Horton and others and Hi Beautiful. Martha O Driscoll Noah Beery Hattie McDaniel Charles Hall and Lester Dorr co star in the second picture.
This notice highlights stars and roles in upcoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions. Katharine Hepburn as a modern widow in The Philadelphia Story. Lucille Ball as Kitty Trimble in Without Love. Keenan Wynn as Quentin Ladd. Carl Esmond as Paul Carrell. Felix Bressart as a scientist friend to Tracy. Patricia Morison as Edwina Collins. Harold S Bucquet directing with Lawrence Weingarten producing.
Servicemen on leave from duty with the United States armed forces listed include Robert Freese of 413 First Avenue Harold G. Howell of 830 Pine Street S Sgt Ardis R Vetter of 510 Seventh Street and Douglas R Watters of 843 Newell Avenue.
Weekend and weekday screenings list a lineup of films and cartoons from Universal Metro News and UPTOWN. Highlights include WITHOUT LOVE with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and SUMMER STORM with George Sanders and Linda Darnell.
A trio from the MGM film Music for Millions will appear in a symphony conducted by Jose Iturbi for screenings at the Uptown theater Sunday through Wednesday. Madeleine LeBeau Mary Parker and Katharine Balfour are highlighted as the performers in the film segment and as rising actresses from the studios.
The 20th Century Fox comedy romance Royal Scandal stars Tallulah Bankhead Charles Coburn Anne Baxter and William Eyrhe and runs Thursday through Saturday at Uptown. Bankhead plays Catherine the Great in her first comedy role with Coburn as the wily chancellor and Baxter as a waiting lady rival.
First Lt. George W. Eversmeyer released from German captivity in May arrives in Muscatine for a 60 day leave with his parents at 101 East Fulham avenue. He departed the U S A for a liberty ship voyage of 14 days and has gained 15 pounds since his release. After leave he will report to the Redistribution Center at Hot Springs Arkansas. Also noted is Donald R. Ridenour USNR promoted from seaman first class to electrician mate third class and serving in the South Pacific with wife and son residing in Oakland California. A brief mention of a Preminger directed film with Catherine's interest in love.
Two local Navy men see heavy combat aboard ships near Okinawa. Elbern L. Knott serves on the USS Indianapolis, which engaged Tokyo Iwo Jima and Okinawa with several enemy downings and bombardments. Guy Ross Masonholder, on another cruiser, supported Okinawa bombardment and naval gunfire, while crews endured intense aircraft attacks and long watch periods.
Tipton John R Stratton water tender third class of the U S S Franklin spent a leave with his wife daughter Susan Jane and his father Ross Stratton He was in the boiler room when the carrier was bombed off the tap coast and he remained at his station three hours before gas and smoke forced him to leave He helped bring the disabled ship to New York and entered service a year ago Sgt Harry Petersen son of Mr and Mrs Chris Petersen has won the Silver Star for gallantry in action in Germany April 16 He is with the 69th Division First Army Mr and Mrs C S Miller Tipton have word from their daughter Dorothy Miller of the Women s Reserve Corps United States Marines that she has been commissioned a major
First Lt. William J. Keating, statistical officer of a B29 group, is back at McCook Nebraska air base after a leave spent with his parents Mr and Mrs W H Keating of Muscatine rural route 1.
Sgt Joe Foor has been hospitalized in France since May 1, per a May 14 letter to his parents Mr and Mrs Frank Foor from his son who was at the front with the mechanized cavalry. A recoiling gun chipped his elbow and he has served three years. He was an instructor at Camp Chaffee Arkansas until January when sent overseas. His wife and two children stay with her father in Sioux City.
Des Moines Iowa Supreme Court Justice Frederick M Miller recently returned from the United Nations conference in San Francisco where he stated the conference clearly demonstrated that world agreements can be reached He attended as an associate consultant to the American delegation for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Maj Harlan Schwob of Wapello has arrived in San Francisco and will travel to Washington for a 45 day furlough to spend time with his wife and three children, parents, and relatives. He has served since 1942 with the army engineers in the Pacific, advancing to major in 1944 after time as captain.
Grandview Lloyd Thompson completed 17 weeks at Carlisle barracks near Harrisburg Pennsylvania and was made second lieutenant at graduation on May 30. He joins the medical administrative corps and after a 10 day furlough will train four weeks in physical conditioning in Lexington Virginia before reporting to Lawson General Hospital in Atlanta for assignment. His wife and daughter Rana attended graduation in Columbus Junction and accompanied him home.
Mr and Mrs J E Orr of 804 Sycamore street report their son Raymond George Orr has left Monday night to begin Navy training. He is listed as A S with number 22 61 13 in Company 772 at the U S Navy Training Center Great Lakes Maine Aroostook county normally grows about one ninth of the U S potato crop.
The brother of Billy C. Foot is currently in service with the Seventh Army in Europe, reflecting ongoing military deployment during wartime.
Sgt. John N. Baker of Muscatine notes The Boomerangs Marauder group reached its 500th mission in France serving with the First Tactical Air Force. The unit has 23 months of continuous combat, 267 enemy planes destroyed, and 15,000 tons of bombs dropped across Africa to Germany. They earned a Distinguished Unit citation and the Croix de Guerre. Baker, crew chief, overseas since 1942, has relatives in Muscatine in service and medicine.
Mr and Mrs Fred Havemann of 301 Grandview Avenue report their son Fred William Havemann has left for service. The address reads Fred William Havemann Co 772 U S Naval Training Center Great Lakes Ill.
The first laboratory bulbs Edison used were free blown by skilled artisans. This detail highlights the artisanal craft behind early electrical experimentation and device fabrication.
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