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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
7
Douglas Walton, released from army service after a long night finishing a picture, reports to RKO in full costume for the Dick Powell Anne Shirley thriller Farewell, My Lovely. He appears before the camera in white tie and tails on his first day back.
After Linda Darnell’s big break in Summer Storm Angelus Pictures signs Dana Drake to a four year contract for a starring role each year. Drake had lingered on Paramount’s lot until a cancellation release enabled her to accept the Angelus offer. Director Douglas Sirk personally tested Drake and recommended she could become a dramatic star.
Norman Price, tenor of the Mother and Dad quartet, chose music as a career after considering swimming or baseball. A native of Berryville, Arkansas, he was a star athlete in his home state. Polly Robertson, an organist and arranger for the quartet, is from Kentucky.
Claude Rains, currently in Mr Skeffington with Bette Davis, is due back from England by mid July under a long term Warner Bros contract for another role. He had gone to play opposite Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra.
Metro recalls 1916 when Glenn Martin, aircraft maker and future businessman, acted in a film opposite writer Frances Marion. He was cast as leading man because no other star owned an airplane, highlighting a quirky cross between aviation and early cinema.
In a poll of enlisted men across the Southwest Pacific by the Overseas Motion Picture Service, Humphrey Bogart won the year’s No 1 actor honor for Casablanca. An Oscar facsimile for the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel of New Guinea is sent to him. Youngsters in Mystery Theater thrillers say murders improve their sleep, defying the belief that mystery stories are too exciting for kids.
The Little Bit of Heaven musical is planned for production by Metro. Capt. Luther Davis of the Army Air Corps in India and Marine Capt. John Cleveland at Quantico collaborate by mail with Robert Andrews in Hollywood.
Victor Borge extends Basin Street run by 13 weeks starting in September. Claudette Colbert plans freelancing after her Paramount finale Practically Yours. Script changes for Murder, He Says swap heroin to ash blonde. Helen Walker declines. Edgar Bergen shows an ash tray modeled after Charlie McCarthy from a fan in Beverly Hills. Guy Lombardo’s band will back WAVE enlistment recordings.
A satirical piece criticizes federal price controls on beauty services like facials and rinses. It notes Chester Bowles drafting an amendment to empower the OPA to set beauty parlor prices, arguing protective ceilings to sustain wartime morale and beauty resources.
A city fireman was dismissed for working in a factory pole keeping a side job during war time. He defends the move as patriotic and cites a Washington letter praising such service. The piece questions wartime labor norms for public safety workers.
A Rutgers extension dairyman Dr George E Taylor describes an improved milking system to save labor amid shortages. Steps include uniform milking times, ready equipment, washing and warming the udder, strip cup checks, and gentle teat cup manipulation to stimulate milk flow and ensure cleaner, more pliable udders.
Pattern No 8614 comes in sizes 1 2 3 4 5 6 years with a size 2 dress requiring 153 yards of 39 inch material plus bonnet and 5 yards ruckrack or ruffled lace. Pattern No 1841 designed for sizes 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 0 52 with size 38 short sleeves needing 35% yards of 39 inch fabric and 12 yards for vestee or 234 yards ruffling.
A bright two piece set for girls aged one to three includes a pretty play dress and matching bonnet. Offered in white with colorful seersuckers, striped chambrays, or flowered cottons for a sweet toddler outfit.
Report notes about 100,000 Sikh troops in India serving with the British in Italy who cannot wear helmets due to religious duty. They retain long uncut hair in a large topknot under an expansive turban, offering dust protection with 12 to 16 square yards of fabric.
A guidance note on starting a kitchen herb plot with old time favorites such as dill sage parsley sweet marjoram chives and caraway. It cautions planting only what you can use and warns against overplanting due to limited seed and garden space while noting herbs vary in propagation methods.
A reader notes the police are not always available after hours while firemen receive tempting offers from factories at higher wages. The writer fears shutdowns or delays could occur if the fire department cannot retain staff, even in wartime or by a war plant owner whose home could burn.
A list of six phrases shows slang and idioms that reveal changing language. The items include requests for service, car repair enthusiasm, dining wordplay, political question, praise for leadership, and a work ethic motto.
Instructions describe converting a citrus fruit box into an egg case by nailing a narrow board strip to end boards and the divider to accommodate 30 dozen eggs. A strip along each side adds safety. Half inch lumber boxes last for years if farmers collect empties after local deliveries.
About one million farm workers have been inducted into the armed forces since 1940 under the selective service act, with roughly 250,000 coming from agriculture in the past year. Many others have left farming and several million have withdrawn from agriculture without moving residence.
Two mind readers reunited after months and exchanged a light hearted exchange. One exclaimed in a hearty voice Youre all right How am I Proceeding with a playful tone the scene highlights the reunion and shared humor between the performers.
A humorous exchange has a doctor asked about prune health. The response notes a woman should buy hats for morale and jokes that a man benefits from it, except the husband.
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