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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
3
War restrictions slash metal toys and many articles leaving children with about half the prewar selection. Sleds, bicycles, and toy autos are scarce while wood, cardboard, and plastic substitutes rise. Dolls and teddy bears remain plentiful as the Office of Price Administration sets fair prices before Christmas.
Families gather as easy to learn quick action games take the spotlight in Santa Claus 1944 pack. Games like ROOK PIT FLINCH MONOPOLY FINANCE SORRY and CAMELOT entertain service men and home families while boosting spelling and arithmetic skills.
This year sees unobtainable cast iron doll utensils returning to shelves alongside construction machinery. A three piece set sells for about a dollar, a steam shovel with movable boom about 3.95, and a hardrock maple dump truck priced at 95.00.
The Philhar monic Symphony Sunday feature “American Scriptures” notes the council waited for Carl Carmer who was absent minded, recalling a lecture and an actress interview, before realizing the meeting was moved to the following day. Danny Kaye stars in The Wonder Man with twins and differing love styles. Chungking hosts a wartime air raid theme with Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo debuting there and in New York, featuring Spencer Tracy as Doolittle.
Vignettes show barbers who ask if conversation is desired, salesmen in refined shops, a Shakespearean actor turned penny-arcade vendor, Sepians in electric shoeshine parlors, diners and bobby Soxers near Paramount, jitterbug youth in Chinatown, an old artist in the Museum of Art, pigeons drawing crowds, Germans in Yorkville saloons avoiding war talk, entertainers of faded fame and hopeful youth, a midtown bar quarrel over the check, a breakfast ritual at Madison and 50th, postwar sidewalk tacticians debating new issues, foreign language filmgoers, and Schraffts hostesses.
A White Paper predicted to declare Britain bankrupt and outline plans to liquidate global investments to pay for war. It notes a shift to barter or cartels if free trade ends and discusses Keynes led plans for postwar lend-lease reforms and a cross Atlantic lend-lease court.
Jim Bannon returns as one detective with Barton Yarborough recreating the role from the original radio show. Nina Foch and Carole Mathews take the two leading female parts while George McCready headlines the male roles. Johnnie Johnston, recently out of hospital after an appendectomy, appears after five theater shows a day as Lana Turner stars in Marriage Is a Private Affair.
Phil Baker, star of CBS's Take It or Leave It, says he was the highest paid movie actor in Hollywood. He received eight weeks' pay for one week's work when he reached Hollywood and found the Take It or Leave It film complete except for his sequence.
Johnny Morgan leads the list of new comedians for 1944 with a Monday show. He will appear in a Broadway musical comedy soon and heads to Hollywood in the spring for upcoming projects.
A NBC survey of early results shows one in three veterans interviewed are deemed worthy of professional employment. The Welcome Home Auditions yield a crop of new performers scripters and technicians from wartime veterans. Auditions occur Wednesdays and Saturdays, with interviews at Radio City throughout the week.
Goodman Ace of Easy Aces once named a character after two friends and offended a Brooklyn man with the same name. Now he urges actors to use their own names whenever possible, and Judge Begley, Florence Halep the secretary and others are real people in the stories.
Tom Andrea, the first This Is the Army member to receive an honorable discharge, signs a long term contract with Warner Bros. Jack Carson lands the leading male role in Mildred Pierce opposite Joan Crawford. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is slated as a musical by RKO. The Grand Ole Opry marks its 19th radio anniversary on November 28. Lloyd Nolan and Claire Trevor star in Mutual’s Results, Inc. as a crime fighting duo with Nolan as a detective agency boss and Trevor as his secretary.
A newspaper note recalls Ogden Nash facing critique for coining coyful in a verse. The critic asked about anything “full of coy” and Nash quips that he has never heard of anyone “full of bash.”
A Woollcott piece mocks the use of controversy as a shield for censorship. It recalls his radio sponsor demanding restraint, then balking at specifics when asked to define controversial material. The sponsor objected to caustic references to Hitler and Mussolini to avoid upsetting supporters.
The piece reflects on the grind of daily column work and the fantasy of shorter work weeks. It then recounts a World War II logistics feat by army engineers who prebuilt bridge sections ahead of the invasion. It concludes with Sidney Hillman moving to disband the PAC as CIO factions debate its future at the Chicago convention.
The Society Set is mocked as easy prey for phonies including fake dukes counts and other spurious nobles. A dowager once fortuneless still lives in luxury as a bookie with clients on Park Avenue. Music lovers carry scores to Carnegie Hall and read along as music is played.
During the war and into the campaign, President Roosevelt has read Carl Sandburg's Lincoln. An observer found a copy in his private study opened to Lincoln's war days. McClellan allies in 1864 charged Lincoln with wasteful spending mismanagement civil liberties abuses and favoring unconditional surrender.
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