Celebrity sightings and war-time film notes in New York
Ronald Colman was identified by a taxi rider in Manhattan while discussing credits. The piece notes Random Harvest at Radio City Music Hall, Mary Martin on stage, Star Spangled Rhythm prints for war stations, and updates on staff and productions at Metro, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia including Marguerite Chapman's brother joining the Navy and Gracie Allen's gas rationing recording.
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Colman
New York
Random Harvest
Greer Garson
Radio City Music Hall
Gracie Allen
George
Jack Benny
Eddie Cantor
Office of War Information
Inside story of Bruce McCandless and Solomons action
Lieutenant Commander Bruce McCandless of the San Francisco led a bold attack during the Solomons battle, took command after Callaghan’s death, and faced possible court martial before a Navy praised him for indirect leadership. The piece also notes Marine notes, White House guard experiences, and wartime civilian donations.
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Bruce McCandless
U. S
San Francisco
Solomons
McCandless
Pointblank
Daniel J. Callaghan
Cassin Young
Leutenant
Navy
Agriculture Drives U S Victory Effort Amid War Demands
The Department of Agriculture projects next year’s net income near 10.5 billion dollars, about a billion above 1919’s peak, as civilians boost production for victory gardens and the breadbasket of the United Nations. The piece notes war duties reduce harvesters while farming’s patriotic push expands nationwide.
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Department of Agriculture
America
Victory Gardens
United Nations
Man Goes Mad Over Ration Rules in Home Comedy
In a humorous tale Elmer Twitchell loses grip on rationing as he reports fake temperatures and pours coffee with condensed milk. The doctor and wife watch as he switches to a bicycle heater joke and ends with absurd claims about horse meat being tasty.
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Elmer
Mrs. Twitchell
Henderson
the Express Company
Elmer Twitchell
Hunk Anderson remembered as tough coach and fighter
Grantland Rice recalls Hunk Anderson as a formidable guard under Knute Rockne and a legendary coach at Notre Dame and North Carolina State. He highlights Anderson's strength, speed, and fighting spirit, noting his impact on players like Eddie Hart and his wartime Marine service.
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CNE
Heartley Anderson
Hunk
George Halas
Chicago Bears
Joe Louis
Strangler Lewis
Knute Rockne
Hank Anderson
Rockne
Notre Dame
Eddie Hart
Princeton
Marines
Eddie Glass
Yale
Marine
Odds and Ends Touch of Hollywood and TV Plans
Ilka Chase and Mary Martin coaxed Herbert Hoover to wink during a CBS Stage Door interview. Walter O Keefe plans a personal Alaskan tour as his Battle of the Sexes NBC program may air from the West Coast. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland begin work together in Girl Crazy marking their eighth team effort since Thoroughbreds Don't Cry in 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilka Chase
Mary Martin
Herbert Hoover
CBS
Walter O'Keefe
NBC
West Coast
Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
PPLIQUE Dishes and Plaid Border Tea Service Ad
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Virginia Vale
Western
Union
Ronald Colman
Daddy
Anteen
John
Janiszewski
Staniszewski
Paramount
Motion Picture Industry
War Activities Committee
Metro
Culver City
Red Skelton
Eleanor Powell
Jimmy Dorsey
RKO
Irving Pichels
20Th Century- Fox
Violette Wilson
Mrs. Pichel
Pichel
Marguerite Chapman
Fred
Panama
Hawaii
Harold
Marguerite
Columbia
Paul Muni
Broadway
Ann Thomas
Abie
Ann
Washington, D. C
Tokyo
Mel Maas
Minn
Marine Corps
Milaas
Gordon Canfield
New Jersey
Canfield
Dorothy Taite
Elizabeth Gibson
Maas
Mass
White House
White
Sam Rayburn
Secret Service
Congress
Rayburn
Franco
Germany
Navy Department
Swarthmore
United States
Peddie School
Englishtown
N. J
Women Harvesters
J. E. Smith
The
Central Bank
San Lorenzo
Calif
Osceola
Ark
Schenley Distributors Corporation
Mt. Holyoke
Connecticut
Jennie
Kogan
Laval
Hippo
Grantland Rice
Anderson
North Carolina State
Stonewall Jacksons
Robert E. Lees
Grants
William Tecumseh Shermans
Philip Sheridans
Pudge Heffelfinger
Paris
Eddie
Hart
Army
Eddie Mahan
Marshal Foch
Bob Neyland
Holy Cross
Boston College
Washington
Redskins
Bears
Auburn
Georgia
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Junior
Korea
TVET
Europe
Raittet
TY Scott
CBC
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