We’ll Have to Stretch Fuel This Winter War Time Advice
Fuel shortages loom this winter as coal oil gas and wood supply tighten. Conservation guidance from the War Production board and Office of War Information urges thorough furnace cleaning sealing leaks thermostat use and strategic heat reduction to stretch fuel across 45 million homes.
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War Production Board
Solid Fuel Administrator
Office of War Information
Minneapolis- Honeywell Regulator Co
Sam
Obert Paige Breaks Through in Color Musical Can't Help Singing
Western Newspaper Union reports Obert Paige rises to stardom after nineteen films in 30 months. He lands a key role opposite Deanna Durbin in Can't Help Singing, a lavish Universal technicolor musical. Paige tours camps and hospitals despite stomach ulcers keeping him from service.
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Obert Paige
Deanna Durbin
Universal
Bob
Hollywood Critics Survey Film Scene From Abroad
A compact critique round up notes Lana Turner in Marriage Is a Private Affair and Rainbow Island with Dotty Lamour, while Abro ad With Two Yanks and San Fernando Valley draw mixed laughs. Pacific tours threaten pneumonia and Hollywood reporters chase upcoming blows in Spain.
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Lana Turner
Lana
Turners
Dotty Lamour
San Fernando Valley
Buddy
Hollywood
Olivia de Havilland
Pacific War Zones
Coal Production Doubled Since 1918 Amid War Strain
The piece notes coal output rose from 579 million tons in 1918 with 942000 workers across 18319 mines to 589 million tons by 1944 with 400000 miners across 6972 mines. Soft coal runs ~12 million tons weekly as demand outpaces supply due to rail delays and military needs.
Paramount Aids Hal Walker Rise To Director
Hal Walker, after 14 years as Paramount assistant director, is promoted to director at the urgent urging of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. His first project, Road to Utopia, is hailed as the best yet among their Road pictures. Alan Ladd signs stars for charity and keeps a nurse's autograph book for his daughter Alana.
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Hal Walker
Paramount
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Alan Ladd
Alana
Ladd
Hope statue honors wartime icon in Smithsonian Living Hall
Bob Hope stands among 50 wartime figures in the Smithsonian Living Hall of Washington 1944. Max Kalish sculpted Hope in a “My ladies and gentlemen gesture” with hands clasped. Fred MacMurray appears in Murder, He Says insured for 1,000,000.
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Bob Hope
Samuel Goldwyn
Living Hall
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Max Kalish
Hope
Fred MacMurray
Paramount
Fred
Peter Whitney
October Network Hooperat ings Top Daytime Shows
Elaine Carrington's When a Girl Marries leads the top ten daytime line up with Kate Smith Speaks close behind and Our Gal Sunday in third. Stars Over Hollywood tops Saturday listings and Songs by Morton Downey attracts the most women listeners while Cedric Foster draws the most men.
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Elaine Carrington
Kate Smith
Our Gal
Hollywood
Morton Downey
Cedric Foster
Odds and Ends From Screen and Stage Notes
Henry McNaughton an English radio guest aims to beat his wife at golf she holds the women's Eastern title Frank Farnum returns to film in Tonight and Every Night Paulette Goddard keeps her dressing room since Paris Mount Clo. Claudette Colbert enjoys designing her own dresses.
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Henry McNaughton
Frank Farnum
Columbia
Rita Haywee
Farnum
Liter
Paulette Goddard
Pargmount
Claudette Colbere
Make Mine Manhattan in Autumn and a MGM Set Blood Query
A poem evokes Manhattan in autumn and nostalgia with a lover’s charm. In Hollywood a New York writer volunteers at a Red Cross unit on an MGM lot and is found not to be an MGM employee, prompting a cautious medical decision.
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Manhattan
Hollywood
MGM
New York
Red Cross
Metro
Privileged class remark at Washington cocktail party
A dowager asked a British Major about England’s privileged classes. He deadpan replied that at the moment the only privileged class in England are the Americans, spoken at a Washington party.
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Washington
England
Navy hospital con test on Betty Grable leg photos
A Navy officer reports a Naval hospital hosted a contest among patients to see who could pick Betty Grable's legs from a set of leg pictures. Only a chaplain could identify them.
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Naval
Betty Grable
NBC Series World’s Great Novels Dramatizes Best Literature
Public service note describes NBC program World’s Great Novels dramatizing top literature. The item also mentions the death in action of another son of King Lardner, a somber update affecting the craft community.
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NBC
Lardner
Salt box and rack pattern gifts for home decor
A simple craft pair cuts from plywood to make a Colonial style salt box and a cup hook rack. Patterns by Mrs Spears include full size templates and step by step stencil directions, with a color guide. Pattern 251 costs 15 cents to mail.
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Mutual Network
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Charles R. Roger
Jack Statham
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Robert Paige
Paul Kennedy
Times Cinema
Spain
Life
Elmer Lower
Paris
Henry C. Cassidy
Atlantic Monthly
L Robert Johnson
General Johnson
Princeton Univ. Press
Chas
Dana Gibson
Dwight Moody
J. Hamilton
Will Rogers
H. R. Warfel
Margaret Halsey
M. Dooley
Riers
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Don Wahn
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
United States
Nielsen Chevrolet Co
Columbus
Nebr
F. E. Kutzli Miles
Iowa
Omaha
Omahia
Nebraska
Nebraska Beauty School
S.mith
Canaries
MAX Geisler Bird CO
No. 16Th Street
Ngai
Hutary
Scott
WNU
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Deen
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