MacArthur’s bridge orders and showbiz quips from wartime column
A long collage of wartime notes opens with MacArthur demanding a three day bridge drawing and later declaring the project ready after delays. The item also teases Hollywood satire about Ilka Chase, Eddie Cantor, Chico Marx, and Ben Bernie, then shifts to political hoaxes and media wit. It closes with a patriotic riff on American industry fueling war, factory chatter, and defense bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Night Club
MacArthur
Bataan
Moore
Eddie Cantor
Lou Holtz
Chico Marx
Ben Bernie
Bernie
Chico
America
United States
Berlin
Tokyo
Hitler
British Field Marshal Ritchie Operates Office on Wheels
Lieut. Gen. Neil Ritchie commander of Britain's Eighth Army in Libya uses a mobile office fitted into a large caravan. The desk is set inside a truck mounted unit designed for rapid movement in the war of movement.
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Neil Ritchie
Britain
Eighth Army
Libya
Government Film Topics Shape Future Movies
Industry leaders received a list of 30 government information topics from Lowell Meller, suggesting government aims will become feature length films. Other notes include Parachute Nurse with an all-female cast and Pris cilla Lane training in card tricks, Wake Island using authentic defence installations, and Crossroads with mustache dilemmas among Powell Rathbone and Bressart.
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Arner Brothers
Mercchant Marine
Lowell Meller
Paramount
Wake Island
Salton Sea
California Island Sea
Pacific Atoll
John Farrow
Brian Donlevy
Robert Preston
Albert Dekker
Barbara Britton
Crossroads
William Powell
Metro
Powell
Basil Rathbone
Felix Bressart
Rathbone
Bressart
Play clothes pattern for girls 1 to 6 years old
Pattern No. 1570-B offers a frock with scalloped sleeves and back opening, a matching bonnet, and a pair of overalls. Described as practical and healthy for warm weather, suitable for 1–6 year old girls.
Major Bowes program helps young musicians and families
Ginger Rogers' mother, a drama editor and coach, appears in a film role for the first time. The Major Bowes show spotlighted the Aquaviva brothers Anthony and Nicholas, with Anthony winning $100 and Nicholas taking first prize, prompting Major Bowes to invite Nicholas to audition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ginger Rogers
RKO
Ginger
Oregon
Major Bowes
Aquaviva Brothers
Anthony
Nicholas
Evelyn Brent returns to Paramount for Wrecking Crew role
Evelyn Brent reports to Paramount for the Wrecking Crew with co stars Richard Arlen Jean Parker and Chester Morris. The item notes possible reunions of western stars for Buckskin Empire and mentions Vivian Leigh as a lead candidate for Frenchman's Creek. William Warren is in London during an air raid in a new Lone Wolf comedy thriller.
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Evelyn Brent
Paramount
Richard Arlen
Jean Parker
Chester Morris
Harry May
William
Hart
Hoot Gibson
William Farnum
Jack Holt
Richard Dix
Vivian Leigh
William War ‘Ren
London
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WNN
H’wood
Ilka Chase
Ilka
Variety
Music Hall
Snow White
Rebecca
Phila
Harry Hopkins
Russia
France
John Gunther
Commentatoriar
Gov't Bureau
Washington
Gunther
B. Altman’s
Lillian Gish
Congress
Broadway
New York
J. Broderick
Stiff
MGM
Chet Shaw
Newsweek
Carl Laemmle Jr
Diego Suarez
Madagascar
R. G. Sturges
E. N. Syfret
FDR
U. S
Manuel Prado
Peru
State Hall
John McCrea
Roosevelt
White House
Atlantic
U. S. Navy
Atlantic Task Force
Heroes of World Battle Front
C. M. Wassell
Java
H. T. Wireless
Philippines
Robert Patterson
House Military Affairs Committee
Representative Faddis
Jonathan Wainwright
Corregidor
Wainwright
Paul V. McNutt
New War Manpower Commission
Leo Kraycki
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Detroit
Western Newspaper Union
Virginia Vale
Charles Barton
Marguerite Chapman
Shirley Patterson
Alma Carroll
Priscilla Lane
Jan Grippo
Veronica Lake
Columbia
Glynis Johns
Eric Portman
Anton Walbrook
Hollywood
England
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
West Wacker Dr
Chicago
St Joseph
Pirin
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Aken
Direcorth
COOK/ HINDS
Cary
Lehn & Fink Products Corp
Bloomfield
Ese Sant Eakfast
Avia Oe
Flav Ver
Audrey Lindgren
Stevens Hotel
Miss Lindgren
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