War Time Hotel Rules Prompt Public Satire
Wartime news notes the War Manpower Commission orders hotels to cut service including towels and sheets and limit baths to one daily. The piece mocks the policy with quotes from Elmer Twitchell and a verse urging readers to accept reduced service while highlighting broader wartime austerity and a comic poll of presidential questions.
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War Manpower Commission
WMC
Elmer Twitchell
Pearl Harbor
Notable 1945 film lineup and rising stars
The piece surveys early 1940s film activity focusing on Ann Blyth and her rapid rise from radio to Universal Studios with The Merry Monahans, Benny Goodman biopic rumors, Steve Cochran’s on-screen vilIainy, Kay Harding stepping to The Mummy's Curse, Alexis Smith in Of Human Bondage remake, Victor Jory’s shift to TV, and Ernie Pyle casting for G I Joe. It also notes Objective Burma on location, Errol Flynn in the cast, Dick Brown's Purple Heart Circuit tour, Frank Sinatra’s singing partner search, and other industry tidbits including Claire Trevor and Frances Langford.
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Frank Sinatra
Eileen Barton
Parks
Vox Pop
Johnson
Willett
Louise Johnson Willett
Gene Krupa
George W White
RKO
Lovely
Claire Trevor
Frances Langford
Washington
Rob Hope
South Pacific
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