Notable Hollywood Moves and Awards Highlighting 1940s Stars
RD ARTA TOREN joins Universal under contract after testing in Sweden where Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman trained. She returns from a cross country tour for Deported to begin Sirocco with Bogart. Robert Ryan gains long RKO contract after Clash by Night. Tol Avery debuts via Where Danger Lives. Lions of theater to screen: Smith and Dale sign for Two Tickets to Broadway. One World Award goes to Stanley Kramer for controversial cinema. Gloria Swanson and William Holden named actors of the year. Anne Seymour lands The Whistle at Eaton Falls role. John Payne to star in more Pine-Thomas films. Don Reynolds to appear in Snake River Desperados.
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Arta Toren
Royal Dramatic Academy
Stockholm
Greta Garbo
Ingrid Bergman
Universal: Tniernational
Anne Seymour
Brad Crawford
Columbia
Eaton Falls
John Payne
Pine-Thomas
Don
Reynolds
Danish Clerk Conceived Christmas Seal Idea in 1903
A Copenhagen postal clerk Elner Holboell conceived Christmas seals to fund tuberculosis work. Four million seals sold in 1904 after royal approval. Miss Emily Bissell in the United States expanded the effort, raising $3,000 turning a local drive into a nationwide campaign with help from Leigh Hodges and E. A. Van Valkenburg.
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Elner Holboell
Copenhagen
Christian
Queen Louise
Holboell
Emily Bissel
Red Cross
Philadelnhia
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
First Yule Card Designed in 1842
The piece notes the rise of Christmas cards starting with a 1842 design that spurred a $100,000,000 two year business employing 500,000 Americans though the first card failed financially. It mentions William Maw Egley, a one year old apprentice who printed 100 copies in London and was later rediscovered in 1941.
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U.S
William Maw Egley
Prentice
London
England
William
Egley
British Museum
Dunce Cap Feature Appears in Malayan Christmas Feasting
The Capitelli, a Christmas delicacy in Maly, resembles a plateful of miniature dunce caps. The dough caps enclose a chicken and pork filling seasoned with spices. They are served with Momtarde de Cremona a fruity mustard sauce with a mild tingle, described as a mustard which is not.
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Maly
Christmas Weather Sayings From Old Beliefs
A compendium of quirky Christmas weather lore predicts that sun through the apple tree on Christmas day signals a good next year’s crop, while a warm Christmas supposedly foreshadows a cold Easter. A green Christmas is tied to a fat wraverard in regional superstition.
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Hollywood
Humphrey Bogart
Miss Toren
Damascus
Essy
Robert Ryan
RKO
Talullah Bankhead
Ryan
Smith and Dale
Avon
Tol Avery
Fadio
John Farrow
Faith Domergue
Claude Rains
Paul Lavalle
Cities Services Band of America
Connecticut
Lavalle
Massachusetts
Ford Bond
Cities Service
Gary Cooper
Dallas
Warners
Stanley Kramer
San Remo
Kramer
Margaret Gibson
Irene Dunne
Fred MacMurray
MacMurray
Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson
William Holden
Joseph Mankiewicz
Beaver Valley
Marta Toren
Gaines Dog Research Center
Rag Map
Austin W. Seth
Seattle
Washington
Board
Marcus
Bach
Iowa City
Iowa
Blackhawk Camera Club
Mike
Camera Club
She Mteity l
Buster
Grace E. McBrayer
Philadelphia
Miniature Camera Club
Delmer F. Hubbel, Jr
Brooklyn, N. Y
Lady Shamrock
Hubbel
William B. Kroeschel
Newark
N.J
America
Prince Charming
Kroeschel
Cates Rhys Asis
Aighat
Oma
The
Crazy Water Company
ING. Mineral Wells
Peter
Elief
Baume Analgesique
Wet Ben-Gay
Tobia Ua
Witten
Prince Bert
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