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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
4
A blonde mannequin named Maisie in the St Anthony hotel garage window wore a full WAG medical technician uniform for a recruitment publicity stunt. Captain Dessie Anthony observed her for days before someone stole the socks from Maisie, highlighting a humorous hosiery shortage at the display.
Kent Taylor and Margaret Lind star in a film adaptation titled Alaska opening Thursday at the Empire theater. The story follows a gang of claim jumpers who frame an innocent man, adapting Jack London’s Flush of Gold for the screen.
Soviet military commentator in Moscow dismisses the German Western front offensive as scientifically flawed. He argues the attempt at concentric blows lacked sufficient enemy concentration, failing to secure a decisive encirclement and risking a major setback.
A wartime dispatch from New York analyzes Hitler’s dream of reviving the Wehrmacht through France, noting Allied resistance, American countermeasures, and German propaganda aimed at sustaining morale. It discusses Allied offensives, the Meuse-Normandy region, and the strategic balance as rumors of renewed Nazi effort swirl amid cautious optimism.
Deputy Shere Fack Hale will assume new duties Monday as bailiff in the Third Court under Judge Guson. Joe Doteingues, former deputy, replaces Hale in the Criminal District Court. Gus Klockenkemper returns as night operator after an auto accident. Lewis Scoggins moves to field duty. Quinlon Grobe granted 10 day leave due to his wife’s illness.
Hollywood reports Mary Pickford plans to play the lead in Touch of Venus opposite Douglas Fairbanks in a postwar revival. Sam Goldwyn’s Sam Burgess Meredith shifts toward England with wife Berlette Goddard for a new project written by Talbot Jennings.
The wartime column recounts Christmas letters from actors and crews in Europe and North Africa. Names like Dorothy McGuire Olivia de Havilland June Clyde Monty Woolley Gracie Fields and Charles Laughton appear with notes on dinners letters and life for service members.
The note mentions a dinner where Tom is thrilled by a etching of John Barrymore from Sargent’s painting. Lonel sent it as a prized possession. David Selenicks hosted a large Christmas party with a show by Bob Hope and Dorothy Lemour for overseas troops, highlighting Hope’s confident performance.
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