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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
6
Summer fashion coverage highlights date and party dresses in eyelet batiste, waffle pique, organdy, and voile. It notes white waffle pique gowns trimmed with crochet, embroidered batiste frocks, and printed cotton dresses with new square necklines and flounced skirts.
A cycling costume features a pinafore style cu lottes with a blue denim top and divided skirt length above the knee. It includes hip pockets with wood disk buttons, a calico blouse, red shoes, blue socks, a natural straw hat, and a postman handbag to complete the look.
Leading stores emphasize apparel for at home entertaining amid expectations of fewer long distance trips because of gas and tire concerns. Garden and barbecue parties gain informality while garden dinners call for rayon satin gowns, pastel prints, and sheets. Informal occasions feature novel dresses, rustic beauty looks, utilitarian gingham calico and chintz, apron dresses, slacks outfits and shirtwaist styles with bright dirndl inspired options for younger shoppers.
Designers embrace flower trims on hats with pendants cascading from one side or under brim. Long stems dangle beside ears on ornate hats and even on bandeau styles. The look blends graceful floral accents with sculpted headpieces across brimmed designs.
Western Union bulletin notes Joan Bennett will headline The Wife Takes a Flyer with Franchot Tone while Richard Bennett stars with his daughters Constance Joan and Barbara in Dutch country roles. Edmund O'Brien leaves RAO for For Ever Yours opposite Deanna Durbin. Ann Sheridan returns to Paramount in a Texas nightclub owner role. Melvyn Douglas in They All Kissed the Bride faces a disputed nightgown scene with Director Hall.
The article recounts how Army officer Caleb H. Carlton helped establish the practice of rising and removing hats during the Star Spangled Banner. It notes his 1914 letter, roles at Fort Meade, and influence on national and military adoption of the anthem, culminating in 1931 when Congress designated it the national anthem. It also covers Carlton’s life from Ohio birth in 1836, West Point graduation in 1859, Civil War service, and later recognition.
A rural American small city scene shows men aged 45 to 65 lining up for military registration. The piece contrasts diverse faces, ages, and races, united in a readiness to serve their country. It also includes a tale of a mole, a portrait of a farmer John Nichols, and notes on Hitler’s handwriting on the wall with calls for peace after victory.
Filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who edited and produced Land of Liberty, reserved rights to name a war charity and has now given $5,000 of receipts to the Queen Wilhelmina Fund for Dutch relief. He traces Dutch ancestry to 1658 immigration.
In a sudden turn on Valiant Lady Joan Blaine becomes widowed and within days encounters a young millionaire. The shock story introduces a fresh romantic development as life on the show shifts dramatically.
Dorothy Lamour begins work on an ambitious spectacle set in 1900 titled Gal veston with a climax tied to the Galveston flood. Her films Beyond the Blue Horizon and Road to Morocco with Hope and Crosby are awaiting release.
Five years after an initial $20 payment to Martha Scott for a minor role on a Five Star Final program, writer director Charles Martin offered more work and higher pay. Her career grew on stage and screen, and a recent CBS Playhouse appearance in his Bachelor Mother adaptation earned her a $2000 check.
In Cairo Jeanette MacDonald soaks in a bubble bath with Ethel Waters as her maid. They perform Figaro from the Barber of Seville as Waters watches and MacDonald rises to operatic tones.
Ken Niles becomes first announcer to present movie starlets over the air. Eddie Cantor shifts Time to Smile to army camps. Gracie Allen’s home overrun with toy ducks from listeners for air bird Herman. Martha Tilton receives Los Angeles area Sweetheart of the Auxiliary Fire Fighters honor. Brian Donlevy leaves Wake Island for a tungsten mine assignment.
A businessman claimed business was looking up but others recalled a period of stagnation. The dialogue included a quip about costs, with Johnson noting his false teeth were expensive while the real ones were free, illustrating contrast between perception and reality.
A terse exchange questions a lingering debt as a character insists on repayment. A hurried attempt to slip into a doorway suggests a tense moment of avoidance. The dialogue hints at concealed obligations and memory of past loans.
The speaker says O'Shea is only a distant relation to Patrick O'Shea. He notes he is his mother's first child, while Pat was the seventh, implying limited direct family closeness.
Surveys of soldiers sailors marines and Coast Guardsmen show tobacco tops their gift lists. Local dealers offer Prince Albert in a pound can for service members as the favored choice, highlighting Prince Albert as the world's largest selling smoking tobacco.
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