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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-09-28
Too Late to Classify

NOTICE: The parties given at the
Locust Grove Grange Hall are
strictly private. BY the Committee.
26-27-2Sp
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-09-28

WANTED: To buy studio couch.
Ellen Browning, Bates Trailer
Camp.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-09-28

LOST: By expectant mother,
brown leather billfold contain
ing hospital money, drivers Ii
cense, social security card. Gener-
Gus reward. Notify Mrs. Harold
Pierce Box 281, Pasco, or leave at
Union Oil Station 5th and Lewis,
Pasco. Phone 40 PaSco.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

scene was set, the feluccas,
which for thirty years had sur
vived the storms and floods CT
the great river, suddenly COLI
ded with submerged rocks that
grew up over night. Camels,
which seemed to be looking for
ward to a ripe old age, died en-
masse just when sudden still
ness had descended and every
thing was ready for shooting.
Another difficulty faced by
Director Korda was in keeping
the stage and background clear
of spectators. Curious natives
who had never before seen q
camera would inevitably pop lip
within camera range to see what
was going on.
Since it was Intellectual to
curse a man in a language he
doesn't understand, one of the
film makers would be dispatch
ed to find the headman and an
interpreter who would take al
least ten minutes to explain to
the curious natives that a pic
ture was being filmed, and the
scene had to be cleared for
action. During these ten minutes
of course, some other natives
would appear on the scene, not
to mention a few camels and a
few youngsters.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Donna Reed Is Sfordom
Bound In "Dorion Grov'

HOLLYWOOD peciaD-
Donna Reed took another step
toward screen stardom this week
when the young actress was
named for an important role in
M-G-M'S "The Picture of Dorian
Gray" screen adaptation of the
Oscar Wilde story.
The role offers Miss Reed one
of her finest dramatic Opportuni-
ties. She will portray Gladys,
who loves and believes in the
strangely sinister Dorian despite
sensational rumOrs she hears
about him.
Miss Reed, who has been hail
ed as one of M-G-M'S most
promising actresses. is also set for
an important assignment in the
Greer Carson Walter PidgeOn
starrer, Mrs. ParkingtOn."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Pidqeon. Carson
Together In 'Porkingfon

HOLLYWOOD spec a d.
One of the most colOrful male
screen roles of the year-the
dashing Major Augustus Park
ingtOn of the Louis BrOmfield
novel, Mrs. ParkingtOn"-this
week went to Walter PidgeOn,
thereby reuniting the successful
and popular Carson PidgeOn
combination which made screen
history in "Mrs. Miniver," MA
dame Curie," and Blossoms Al
the Dust"
For both Miss Carson and
Pidge0n, the new film repre-
sents distinct departure from
any of their previous husband
and wife" portrayaIs, for gaiety
and worldliness are the dOmi-
mating characteristics of the
ParkingtOnS.
Tay Garnett directs and Leon
Gordon is the producer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

Out and out military subjects
edged into best" technical cate
gories. This Is the Army was Os-
cared for musical scoring. Air
Force had the best film editing.
Crash Dive was the outstanding
wizardry in special effects.
The sensation of the awards
was Hollywood's acknowledge
ment that the outstanding per-
formance by any actress in 1943
was given by a girl in her first
starring role, Jennifer Jones in
The Song of Bernadette Goth
Fox).
The Shelton Rattles
THE WAC. Fresh from his
army physical, MGM's Red Skel-
ton arrived at the Academy
Awards show escorted by four
civilians. He introduced them as
my draft board.
AND WHAT WACS! MGM
will make a feature about the
life of women in the army. 1t
will show Lana Turner and La
raine Day as typical WACs.
BEST BET. Destination Tokyo
(Warner). An exciting subma-
rine adventure.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

Zoltan Korda, who directed
-Four Feathers" Alexander Kor-
da's technicolor adventure
drama, which stars Ralph Rich
ardson, John Clements, June Du-
preZ and c. Aubrey Smith
Begins a return engagement at
the Esquire March %, felt like a
horse trader, Pooh bah and w.t.
nurse, all rolled into one, when
he was finally able to collect
four thousand natives from va
rious parts of the Nile country
to appear in the battle sequence.
But even after these four thou
sand were established in COM
munities along the Nile, with all
their tribal customs and their
complex catering needs taken
into account, it was apparent
that they had no idea what all
the shooting was for But they
ickly gathered the Importance
barter, so that when their
= amen were arranging for the
fiIfe of the feluccas needed for
the Nile flotilla scene, and the
hire of camels needed for the
fighting sequences, the price al
ways included "in case of acci-
dents"
This proved a constant handi-
cap to the filming. AS soon as a
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Fla S h es
from
Hollywood

Susan Peters likes to knit
sweaters for her friends.
M-G-M Glamazon Dorothy
Ford is the niece of Henry Ford.
Ginny SimmS was a cham
pion swimmer in school.
Signo Hasso's favorite pas
time is writing. She can't for
get that she was once a Swedish
journalist.
Chill Wills made more than
two hundred personal appear
ances at Army camps during
1943.
X X
Basil Rathbone was a front
line officer in the British Army
during World War l, and was
awarded the coveted Military
Cross of England
Daryl Hickman cherishes
an ambition to become a cow
puncher, after which he thinks
it will be possible to play
western roles with true ar
tiStry.
X
Kenny Bowers collects auto
graphed pictures of famous peo-
pie he has met, including such
notableS as the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, Katharine
Cornell, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene
O'Neill, and the late George NJ
Cohen.
John Kodiak, Lana Turner S
new leading man in M-G-M s
Marriage Is a Private Affair, :"
is the original Lii Abner" Of
the radio. He began the cartoon
character in Chicago prior to be-
ing offered a screen test that
brought him to Hollywood and
film fame.
X
Xavier Cugat, who was born
in Barcelona, Spain, is almost
as famous for his ability to
prepare Mexican dishes as he
is for his rumba 'rhythms.
y
Lana Turner plays records on
the set for her new picture,
M-G-M's Marriage Is a Private
Affair."" but not to create dra-
matte mood. She plays them
merely for her own enjoyment
and that of her fellow workers.
Her favorite records are swing,
sentimental ballads and semi
classical, which she plays in
turn.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
American Artists
Honor BARRYMORE

NEW YORK (SpeciaD-One
of the highest honorS an Ameri-
can artist can receive was paid
to Lionel Barrymore when, at
the annual dinner of the Ameri-
can Artists Professional League,
held February 26th at the Sala-
magundi Club here, he was
elected to the board of directors
of the organization. The tribute
was in recognition of his talents
as an etcher. He is the first ac-
tor in history ever to be so hon
ored.
The M-G-M stars etchings
have hung in the Hundred
Prints of the Year, annual New
York exhibit of the Society Of
American Etchers, and have
been exhibited in many art gal
leries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17


Although Ginny at first in
tended to become a piano teach
er, her San Fernando Valley
home today doesn't boast sim
gle piano-and only one radio.
Her part in "B Broa d w a y
Rhythm" coming to Valentine
Theatre, is not only her initial
role for Metro o-Goldwyn-Mayer,
but her first in Technicolor and
the biggest by far in her screen
career to date. Ginny made her
film bow in 1940, with Kay
Kyser and his band in That's
Right, You're Wrong" Two
other pictures with Kay's or
chestra followed, but each time
Ginny was only the pretty girl
who sang with the band. No one
expected her to act.
Even when she was loaned to
Universal for Hit the Ice," with
Abbott and Costello, Ginny was
still classified as just another
singer. She sings, too, in
Broadway Rhythm" All the
Things You Are" and Amor,
Amor"-but she acts as we'll and
very well, too, sharing romantic
honors with George Murphy.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

face and figure and a sparkling
personality for the screen and
she is perfectly teamed with
the popular dancing star, George
Murphy.
Murphy is cast as a member
of famous theatrical family
and is a successful Broadway
producer. He retires his father,
Charles Winninger, and does his
best to KEEP his kid sister, Gloria
De Haven, in school despite her
yearning for the stage.
Ginny Simms, playing a Holly
wood movie star, comes to New
York searching for a play to give
her new shot of the prestige
she needs so badly. At first she is
interested in Murphy's play but
later turns it down because she
does not believe it will be hit.
This is the opportunity Winnin-
ger has been waiting for. He
dusts off one of Murphy's old
scripts and joins forces with
Miss Simms to produce it in a
summer theatre venture.
Ginny To Rescue
When Murphy finds out what
is going on he becomes eStrang-
ed from his father and his rom
ance with Miss Simms is nipped
in the bud. Things go badly for
both productions until Ginny
takes matters into her own
hands and patches up the breach
between Murphy and his father;
and Broadway hit is intro
duced to a cheering first night
audience
Versatile George Murphy,
looking very handsome in a
brand new mustache, is well
cast as the successful scion of
show business. He sings well
and dances with style and his
ingratiating personality is an
asset to any screen. After see
ing Miss Simms in Technicolor
the wonder is that she has been
able to remain hiding behind
glamourless microphone all this
time. She is definitely an actress
of increasing stature and bids
fair to become one of the reign
ing singing personalities of the
screen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Director Pays SIS
To See Own Film

HOLLYWOOD-It cost Direc-
tor Mervyn Leroy SIS to see
his own picture, Madame
Curie", which he had seen be-
fore at least dozen times
Invited to be guest at a spe-
cial showing of the Metro-Gold-
Wyn-Mayer film at a Pensacola,
Fla. theater in the interest uf
the Fourth War Bond Drive, Le-
Roy found that a seat sold for .
S100 war bond. He ponied up.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Frances Rafferty,
In Beerv Picture

HOLLYWOOD-Frances Raj
ferty, pert Irish lass who gave
up a secretary's job to become
a screen starlet, has been named
as the romantic feminine lead in
Metro -Goldwyn- Mayors forth
coming Gold Town. starring
Wallace Beery.
The picture marks Frances
first screen role with a Western
background. She played Chi
nese mother in Dragon Seed"
and recently appeared in Girl
Crazy with Mickey Rooney and
Judy Garland.
In Gold Town" she joins a
cast headed by Beery and Bin
ME Barnes.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
MariIyn Maxwell Cast
In Abboff-CosfeIIo Film

HOLLYWOOD-Marilyn Max
well. who started as a featured
singer for big name bands then
became a dramatic actress in
pictures. is to sing on the screen
for the first time. This week she
was given her most important
role to date. as well as the most
glamOrOus. when she was cast an
American show girl who be-
comes an exotic Far East charm
er, in Lost in a Harem." new
Abbott and Costello filmusical
shortly to go into production at
Metro -GOldwyn-Mayer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

product of the best direction of
the best script. illogical, too)
Altogether Casablanca gar
nered three of the sculptured
mannikins known a. Oscars in
the annual Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences sweep
stakes.
MANY picture fans remember
Casablanca as the first film to
characterize the Nazi collabora-
zionist who is ready to play ball
our way. Claude Rains made him
an amiable turncoat Of course
n he picture was made before the
-vevent.)
The best acting by any man
last year, Hollywood decided,
" the anti-fascist hero played
A Aul LukaS in Watch on the
VI (Warner).
'TnIs Land Is Mine Sighted
At this moment you may de-,
eide that Hollywood's evalua-
tions have at last become influ
enced by war issues. However,
RKO's This Land Is Mine, clear
est to state the case between fas-
cism and democracy, was merely
voted "OK for sound" 1t took
the Oscar for recording.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Laraine Day Gives
Name To Bomber

HOLLYWOOD - 'Laraine
Day" is ready for her role in the
invasion of Europe. She is a
sleek, shiny, Douglas CAT
bomber which this week rolled
off the assembly line at the Long
Beach, Calf, Douglas aircraft
plant to meet her sponsor.
Laraine Day, Metro -Goldwyn-
Mayer actress, christened her
huge namesake by clambering
up a platform ten feet high to
burst a paper bag of confetti
over the ships propeller.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
"MAISIE" IN 0VERALLS
AGAIN

Ann Sothern's wondering if
she's frozen to coveralls" for
the duration.
The NJ r o-Goldwyn-M Mayer
star has appeared in coveralls in
her last two pictures, Swing
Shift Maisie" and CRY Havoc
Her forthcoming starring behicle
"Maisie Goes to Reno" again
finds her in-overallsl
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Hugh Marlowe In
Greer Carson Film

HOLLYWOOD - Tall, hand
some Hugh Marlowe, former
Broadway actor, today received
his third and most important
screen assignment since signing
a contract with MGM Studios.
He will appear in Greer Gar
sons new starring film, Mrs.
Parkington.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
Employment Is Key
To Peace

WASHINGTON (FP)-Aimed
at using full employment and
full production as twin keys to
world peace in the postwar
period, program of interna-
tional economic collaboration
was laid before the senate in a
joint resolution introduced by
Senators Ebert d. Thomas Cd,
Utah), Harley M. Kilgore Cd,
w. Va.) and Harry S. Truman
3D., Mo-.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
HAVE YOU HEARD:

That Lionel Barrymore's
middle name is Herbert?
That Donald Meek alb
sent-mindedly draws little
caricatures of Theodore
Roosevelt. teeth, glasses
and all, while telephOning?
That Frances GiffOrd'S
greatest weakness is chocO-
late ice cream?
That Joe Iturbi smokes a
cigar while practicing at a
piano, but always smokes a
pipe while conducting for a
recording?
That Edward Arnold is
an avid reader of comic
strips, and gets all the fun
nies" in print?
That Lionel Barrymore
can't resist playing a "juke
box" whenever he's near
one?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
LABOR TO ATTEND
DEM CONVENTION

SAN FRANCISCO (FP)-
State leaders of the AFL, CIO
and railroad brotherhoods were
among the 56 candidates for
election as the California fourth
term delegation" to the Demo
cratic national convention.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
HITLER HECKLER CAST

Tom Dugan, the screens com
edy Hitler, wins an important
role with Robert Young and
Susan Peters in Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayors Secrets in the Dark"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
'Broadway Rhythm Full Of
Color And Entertainment

Broadway Rhythm Metro Goldwyn4Mayers Techni
color film starting midne We'd March % the Valentine Theatre
tnefu musical chockful please
Gnny Smms long singing favore of the airwaves
makes her debut Technicoor revealing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17
: STAR LIFELINES
BY ETHEL VINE


feminine entertainer by 8 national
Gnny Smms air audiences only voice, albeit
welcome Comparatively few radio listeners
matched by shapy figure long chestnut brown hair
fringed luminous skn teeth that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-17

HOLLYWOOD (FP)In its spree of self-evauation
Hollywood decided by ballot of the ee) that Casabapca War
picture 1913 When additional
Michael Curtz the rumvate of writers
that the best the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-21

five times the size Of that Of the
United States. But not until Ger
many was convinced that it could
make aircraft superior to that OF
any other nation did it 60 into mass
production.
The NACA recognized the men
ace, and in 1897 started a study Of
the relation of its organization to
national defense in time of war. The
result was a doubling Of the research
facilities at Langley Field, and the
authorization by congress of two adj
ditional major research centers-
the Ames Aeronautical laboratory at
Moffett Field in 1899 and the Aircraft
Engine Research laboratory at
Cleveland in 1910.
These are operated in close team
work with the military services and
/, the aircraft industry. It works like
this: Suppose the army air forces
want a certain aircraft manufacture
er to produce new type of pur-
suit plane. The design engineers at
the factory CONFER Win experts Oh
the materiel command Of the air
forces at Dayton, Ohio, and agree
tentatively upon general design and
specifications. Both groups then con-
fer with NACA experts at Langley
Field to incorporate the latest knowl-
edge gained through research.
NACA Checks New Models.
The program calls for the factory
to 60 into production by certain
date. The manufacturer assemblies
tools and material and makes con-
tracts for sub-assemblies. The army
materiel command plans and pro-
vides the military equipment, in
Guiding instruments. armor and ar
mament. The NACA responsibility
involves, first, making Of dynami-
cally balanced small flying models
for experimentation in its free-spin-
ming wind tunnel and in the free
flight wind tunnel.
The free spinning wind tunnel is
a vertical tube 20 feet wide with a
propeller mounted on the top and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-21
Performance Of l. 5. Fighting Planes Best in World,
Thanks 10 Advisory Committee for Aeronauti(s

ment and peace treaties, this lab
oratory laid the foundation for the
new science of aeronautics, which
again brought leadership to Amer
lea.
Nazi Research Expanded.
But when Hitler came to power In
1888, he recognized that he must
have the strongest air force In the
world If he was to subdue the world.
With foresight and intelligence, Ger
many began by concentrating upon
scientific research. German labora-
tories were expanded and multiplied,
until at the time of the Pact Of Mu-
mich the German aeronautical re-
search establishment had become
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When these tests have been made,
and the necessary information OBJ
tanned, the NACA makes larger and
sturdier models with solid steel
cores to be firmly mounted on re-
cording balances in wind tunnels OPP
Grating at air speeds up to 600 miles
an hour. These tunnels measure the
lift and drag, as well as the pitch
ing, rolling and yawing movements
Of the plane at various angles Of
attack.
Add 20 Miles Per Hour.
When the first full-sized plane Is
produced, it is placed on the NACA
full-scale wind tunnel to determine
how to increase further its speed by
reducing the drag through better
streamlining, or removing, or re-
shaping protuberances. In such full
scale tunnel tests, the NACA has
never failed to add at least 20 addi-
tional miles per hour to the speed
of plane about to 60 into produc-
ton.
Special tests are provided for par
ticular types of planes. For high
speed fighters, aerodynamic expert
ments are conducted in low air pres
sures, such as are encountered at
high attitudes. In a huge domed
structure, pressures are created to
simulate air conditions at attitudes
up to $4,000 feet.
Taking off and landing abilities of
seaplanes are tried out in basin
900 feet long, containing seawater.
A large scale model of seaplane,
or of the floats only, is towed be-
hind an electrically powered crane,
at speeds up to 80 miles per hour.
Experimental planes are fight
tested under carefully controlled
conditions, and record is made of
its performance on movie film. The
test pilot is given orders by radio
telephone from the ground, and he
performs the turns, loops, dives,
climbs, and other maneuvers.
One of the recent outstanding con-
tributions Of the Ames laboratory
has been the use of exhaust heat
from airplane engines to heat the
leading edges, wings, tail surfaces,
and windshields Of airplanes to pre-
vent the formation Of ice. This has
permitted safe flight under condi-
tons that otherwise would have
grounded planes. The ice hazard
has been eliminated.
But the list of advances which
have been made applies to virtually
every component of the airplane.
More than once the NACA labora-
tories have saved the commercial
life OF some aircraft company by
giving it the necessary scientific in
formation to bring into practical use
advances in design the company had
made, but which fell short of mill
tary requirements. The success OF
the Flying Fortress design was
made possible by scientific knowl-
edge developed in NACA labora-
tories.
After the war, when America en-
tiers an era of great commercial
aviation expansion, the NACA lab
oratories expect to continue to pro-
vide the basic scientific research
upon which American air suprema-
cy is based. It now has a plant
worth some $70,0O0,00O, which at
least equals the research facilities
Of the Germans. It probably will
continue to be in competition with
German scientists and facilities, but
our armed forces hope congress new
er again will let it fall behind in
staff and equipment.
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ridge, Calf, where she has a So
acre ranch. No more calling her
Miss Simms or just Ginny-she's
''Your Honor" now.
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army and to the manufacturer, and
is used to correct the design.
A second model is prepared with
similar care and is tested in the
free-fight tunnel. That IS a wind
tunnel IL feet in diameter inclined
at an angle which will permit the
model to glide forward through a
moving stream Of air. The model
is equipped with delicate electrical
mechanisms which operate the con-
trolls, and which enable the research
staff to determine what changes are
necessary to assure, in advance Of
production, that the new design will
be easily unanswered and controlled
and will have stability.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-21
BY VIRGINIA VALE
'eleased BY Western Newspaper Union.

SWELL, you never know
wv when something you've
bought may come in handy, es-
pecially in a motion picture
studio. Paramount bought two
rooms from the Hearst Collec-
ton when it was put on sale in
New York, consisting of carved
oak paneling of the 18th GEN.
fury, originally part of European
castles. So-they were used as sets
in ''The Hitler Gang" They're the
living room and library Of the Nazi
industrial magnate, Alfred Hugen-
berg, in the picture; Hitler comes
to him seeking financial support.
-
The cast of MICS Johnny Pre-
sents" has been having a bit Of fun
with Ginny Simms, we hear, since
she has become mayor Of North
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japanese Subjects

Outside Of their homeland, the
Japs today hold territories having
a total population of 80, 900, 900 or
43 per cent more than the 217, 000,-
600 persons in the lands invaded
or dominated by the Nazis.