Notable Hollywood Notes on Stars and Screen News
Virginia Vale surveys recent film and radio happenings. Anny Kaye rises in Go in Arms and Up in Arms fame with Sylvia Fine, while Jane Powell achieves teen stardom. Actors like Adolphe Menjou and Ronald Colman draw mail, and Jack Benny, Edith Herrick, and Archie Andrews contribute to radio and TV. RKO, Warner Bros., and Republic push projects as industry chatter runs hot.
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Anny Kaye
Samuel Goldwyn
New York
Sylvia Fine
Alcohol and WPB delaying sawdust alcohol plans
WPB stalled a German method to extract alcohol from sawdust as 80 plants operate in Germany. Plans for a Willamette Oregon plant were blocked by WPB officials despite overruled authorization, lost applications, and an FBI check. Also notes air war shifts and a World War II draft of personnel.
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War Production Board
Germany
U. S
Forest Service
Marquette
Wis
Willamette
Vulcan Copper and Supply Company
J. Alfred Hall
WPB
Oregon
Atlantic Seaboard
Levy
England
FBI
Europe
Luftwaffe
Air Forces
RAP
RAF
Disgraced by Song on South Sea Island Customs
Islanders punish crime not with jail but by composing a song about the wrongdoer and singing it publicly. The practice has long shaped public shame, with jails once absent until modern bases emerged, though a song remains the harsher social punishment.
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South Sea Islands
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Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Charlie McGarthy
Jane Powell
Edgar Bergen
Jane
Charlie’s
Adolphe Menjou
Algeria
Sicily
Vincent Lopez
Lopez
Betty
Marion Hutton
Karole Singer
Bruce Hayes
Ronald Colman
NBC
Montana
Ronald Colman Donn
Army
Colman
Dagwood
Arthur Lake
Blondie
Patricia van Cleve Lake
New Republic
New Faces
Jack Benny Fine
Warner Bros
Archie Andrews
Mutual
Metropolitan Opera Company
Edith—Herrick
John Hodiak
Lana Turner
Ann Sather
Matis Goss
Reno
RKO
Kenny
Rosalind Russell
Amos ’N' Andy
Sane Powell
Corps Climatic Laboratory
Lawrence
Mass
Quartermaster Corps
Mexico
Tequils
Dan
Jule Mannix
Pequilat
Fequils
Edward J. Eve
New Albany
Ind
Tom P. Senff
Mt. Sterling
L. A. Dickson
Waco
Texas
War Refugee Board
Roosevelt
Gus Capelli
Denver
Colo
Gus
Peter of
Jugoslavia
Alexandris
Greece
Jugoslav Embassy
London
Washington,d.c
U. S. Quartermaster Corps
Man Mountain
Dean
Camp Ritchie
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New
Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Calif
Ana
Bell Ans
Bellans
Hite En
Amous
Baltimore
Amo
Calvert School
Tuscany Rd
Baltimore-10, Md
Sontronée
Soretone
McKesson
Eros SS
Eta
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