Tidbits From Hollywood on Actors and Contracts
A roundup of film industry notes. Kate Smith signs a Columbia shorts deal with USO profits. Mary Cortes poised for a Tim Whelan project. Lorraine Gettman renamed Leslie Brooks under contract. Jack Trent, ex-teacher and Shirley Temple guard, appears in Silver Queen. Admiral Leahy comments on DeMille’s Reap the Wild Wind. Ann Miller’s age mischief and rising career. The Are You a Missing Heir program has returned million dollars, while 77 million remain unclaimed in probate.
Radio and film stars in wartime shifts and reunions
The piece notes a radio sound man joining the army air corps who once heckled Jack Benny on Sunday broadcasts. Ed Murrow and William L. Shirer met at a Paris cafe. Ronald Colman finishes The Talk of the Town and can share updates after months. Rosalind Russell signs to star in Stand By to Die for RKO about a woman flier in Japanese-held islands. Madeleine Carroll reserves front row seats for her army and navy escorts at a recent broadcast.
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Sooly
Jac Benny
Army Air Corps
Ed Murrow
William L. Shirer
Paris
Ronald Colman
Rosalind Russell
RKO
The
Madeleine Carroll
Slacks Outfit Includes Weskit Topper For Summer Wear
A pattern describes a slacks outfit with a weskit top over a blouse or sweater suitable for beach, camping, lounging, or work. Pattern No. 8152 offers sizes 12 to 20. size 14 requires 1% yards of 35 inch material for weskit and 2% yards for slacks, noting ample fullness at the trouser top for easy hang.
Patchwork apron idea from saved cotton scraps
Reading shows suggestions to craft an apron from saved cotton scraps or patterned fabric with contrasting plain material. The sketches imply options for a patchwork design and use of contrasting fabrics.
Uncle Phil Says Advice and Quips
A set of aphorisms on finance friendship effort and luck. The quips cover lending money restoring balance with effort before luck and the paradox of work versus rest. Each line offers a pithy worldly reflection.
Unclear fragments prompt garbled ad copy and quotes
OCR appears as stray dialogue lines about hands and driving followed by brief chatter on money germs and an inventor ad. The readable portion notes a question about how Smith hurt his hand and mentions postwar manufacturing plans from Inventor's Industries in Indianapolis.
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Smith
Quiz Challenge from ASK ME ANOTHER
The questions cover symbols of good luck five in number naming an ingredient linked to laryonnaise in a dish title identifying the penitent thief crucified with Christ defining a camelopard and comparing weights of cork balsa and cherry wood plus a word meaning difference between sinuate and insinuate.
Miscellaneous Symbols and Word Pairs List
A compact list outlines items including horseshoe wishbone blue bird four leaf clover and rabbit s foot. Also mentions onions and balsa wood. Includes Dismas and a giraffe. Defines sinuate as wind in and out and insinuate as indicate or suggest indirectly.
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Communist Party
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Restern Newspaper Union
Virginia Vale Aramount
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William Bendix
John Farrow
Kate Smith
Columbia
Kate
USO
Tim Whelan
RKO Radio
Seville
Mary Cortes
Puerto Rico
Marguerite Chapman
Navy Blues
Lorraine Gettman
Leslie Brooks
Jean Arthur
Cary Grant
Jack Trent
Montana
Shirley Temple
Priscilla Lane
George Brent
C. B. DeMille
William D. Leahy
France
Ray Milland
John Wayne
Paulette Goddard
America
Florida Keys
Leahy
DeMille
Ransom Sherman
Dix Davis
Stanley
Ann Miller
Orpheum Theater
San Francisco
Broadway
Paramount
WAAC
Oveta Hobby
Houston
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Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
William Hobby
Phil
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
West Wacker Dr
Chicago
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Bert
Inventor’s Industries
Inland Building
Indianapolis
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J. Fuller
By Jerry Link
Kelloggs
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Army
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