Show Boat Romance in a Storm of Pride and Schemes
Melissa Marlowe, a singer aboard the River Queen show boat, faces social pressure and her fiancé Randy Hendricks’s rage over gossip at the track. A poised radio man, Todd Beasley, offers a big contract, while Melissa contemplates marriage and a risky future on air.
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Women to Train as Film Stage Workers in Wartime Shift
Hollywood reports plan to train women for jobs on sound stages shops and laboratories as male technicians depart for war service. Women may fill roles as camera operators sound mixers cutters and set dressers while unions negotiate scope. War bonds drive continues with major staff contributing over 75,000 weekly in regular deductions as war effort expands.
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Hollywood
Paul Harrison
NEA
Screen
Pirates Baseball Training School Opens at McCurdy Field
The Pittsburgh Pirates launched their baseball training school at McCurdy Field at 10 this morning. Local and out of town youths arrived as students, with Pirates scouts and instructors, led by Fred Hering, Pie Traynor, and Fred Lear, overseeing setup and scheduling. Pirates field director Bob Rice and Pony League manager Poke Whalen visited, and additional scouts Ley Makes Joe Riche and Patsy O Rourke were expected. Students include four from New York City, two from Reedsville and Cumberland, and one each from Wilkes Barre and Wilmington, housed in private homes while the program runs. Warm weather aided baseball practice today.
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Pittsburgh
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Joe Riche
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Cumberland
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Wilmington
Hollywood wartime plans ripple through studios and stars
The article notes top stars and freelance players backing war effort films and live appearances. Veronica Lake tops reports with a Godiva look and long forelock, while others like Bing Crosby Bob Hope Mae West and Mae West plan Army camp skits and spy roles. Studios consider borrowing actors for one picture furloughs to boost morale, with Arizona studios planned to shield southern California from invasion fears.
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Arizona
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Navy
Armed Services
England
Exhibition Games R H E St Louis and Boston Batteries
Exhibition box scores list teams St Louis Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago and Cincinnati with batteries including Pollet Dickson Krist ODea Newsome Pullak Johnson Masterson Livingston Peterman Wilson Zuber Early Evans Salvo Sain Errickson Potts Muncrief Galehouse Swit Hamlin Jungles Sewell Baker Cali gari Shiley Hallett Wagner Smith Grove Turner Lee Flores Wyse McCullough and others. Scores show varied results across multiple games in a busy exhibition slate.
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Zuber
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Beckman
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Shiley
Hallett
Wagner
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Turner
Lee
Flores
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McCullough
Sport Tips Supervises Training in Frederick
Bob Hice, younger than his 1930 Waynesboro Redbirds days, oversees training for two Class D Pirates farm clubs in Frederick. He runs Pittsburgh scouting, modeling after St. Louis Cardinals' farm system. Bill King Whalen recalls Frederick debut of Bill King, who won 12 of 14 before an 18 inning 2 1 loss. Ralph Snyder and Meredith Page from Doubs clubs earn rookie tryouts. Scout Carlton Molesworth eyes Page.
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Pirates
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Meredith Page
Carlton Molesworth
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Louis Conn fight in Chicago or Ohio debated by columnist
Sports roundup notes a proposed heavyweight bout between Private Joe Louis and Private Billy Conn, debating Soldier Field Chicago versus MacArthur Ohio as venue. It also covers Western Kentucky basketball tournament film show for Navy relief, Orioles ticket contest, locker room motto by Jimmy Orlando, veteran managers’ views, and other sports miscellany.
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Army and Marines chess with golf and baseball cops eye summer
In Texas Sheppard Field figures as a tough summer spot for golfers. Pvt Pat Abbott, former champion and runner-up in the 41 Nacional Amateur, and Lt Grimes of Kentucky open, lead a 12 man squad. Earl Grace, ex big league catcher, coaches Chinese air cadets in Arizona. Sacramento Junior College crew dunking ritual goes awry when the coxswain stays ashore. Reds rookie Joe Abreau reveals he was surprised by a hidden ball trick last year.
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Reds
Alsab to Leave for Havre de Grace Races
Miami Florida April 5 Alsab the winter stake standout leaves for Havre de Grace to run in the Chesapeake Stake and possibly the Chesapeake Trials. Owner Al Sabath says if conditions are right Alsab may enter the $2 500 trials on April 13 a six furlong race not ideal for the former juvenile champion. He is also marked to start in the April 18 Chesapeake Stake a mile and an eighth. Sabath notes the Florida rest improved the horse and the trip to Maryland is direct, diverting from a Kentucky route.
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Hogan Wins His Third Straight Land of the Sky Open
In Asheville, North Carolina, April 5, Ben Hogan edged Lawson Little by a stroke to claim his third consecutive Land of the Sky open, finishing at 276 after a late 32 on the final nine. Little, who shot 66 in round three, closed with 76 and a near eagle bid on 17, but Hogan held on to seize the $5,000 event title.
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Hogan
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Transparent wing-tip lights tested for higher speed planes
Transparent plastic wing-tip sections with internal lighting are being tested as a replacement for traditional red and green running lights. As airplane speeds increase, the existing lights lack sufficient range, prompting this development to improve visibility and safety.
Democracy at Home Dorothy Dix Style
Dorothy Dix argues for domestic democracy, likening homes to autocracies. She notes wives and husbands oscillate in power, with wives sometimes wielding control over money and social life, while children can become tyrants, turning homes into battles over rule and freedom.
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Hitler
Nero
Tin Fish and Democracy at Home Hope
A discussion advocates splitting a new Tin Fish to bring democracy home and improve family life. A reader asks Miss Dix about a refugee’s love problem choosing between an English partner abroad and an American girl. The answer counsels staying with the English girl for shared background and compatibility.
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Miss Dix
England
Ben M
Domestic Slavery in Families and Its Social Toll
The article argues that parental authority over children has weakened, noting youths prevail over elders in many homes. It claims this domestic imbalance fuels infidelity, unhappy marriages, hoodlum children, and broader sorrow, calling domestic slavery harder to endure than political bondage.
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Mary
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