davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

ing at home isn't such bad one,
Not that leaning over washboard
is fun. In fact, ii has always struck
me as being about the hardest work
home women are called on 10 do But
there's one thing about it-you know
you'll get your laundry back, and
that il will be fit 10 wear.
The laundries aren't to blame for
all the trouble, of course. In fact
under normal conditions, American
laundFies= have been about the best,
and certainly the most reliable, in
the world. Still, what can a laundry
owner do when most of his workers
go into higf-payIng war industries
Then, too, there is the fact that
100000 women, many Of whom nor
mally do their own laundry, are now
working at war Jobs. Naturally. the
don't have time or energy TO do the
family wa hing, too. So their
bundles are added TO those that are
already taxing the facilities of the
nations big wasfrpfdntS'. -
Perhaps my prize laundry story
concerns a handsome, prominent aC-
tor who is appearing in one of the
current Broadway sellouts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

the worst time with
dry. Either
they do it them
selves, or they have
TO send il bdck 10
The home Town.
As far as that
goes, a lot of Amer
lean housewives are
learning these days
that the old system
of doing the wash
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

thInk II Is W0Tth The cNtTcmc COST
a parcels post clerk Told me ne has
one customer who sends her laundry
regularly 10 Minneapolis and another
who sends ii 10 Memphis
Judy Garland put the reverse Eng
lish on this during a recent tour OF
TSO camps She sent her laundry
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

come back at all, and IT took per
sonal trip to the wilds of upper Man
haitian 10 retrieve it,
In this crisis, ] bethought myself
OF Lavinia, who had been my priced
laundress during the years that ! did
my writing in Florida An old adj
dress book how lucky I've ncNcr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23


laundress during the years that did
my writing in Florida. An old adj
dress book how lucky I've never
learned TO throw them away
supplied her house number
Our former relationship was
duly resumed via L. S. mail, and
since then I've been able 20 smile {
indulgently when my friends wall
about their laundry woes.
However, from various reliable
sources, such as parcel post men,
and even from laundry people. ~
/ have learned that quite few !
other persons have stumbled on (
my solution Of critical and init y
mate problem.
Perhaps the prize long.dis.
lance laundry story was told me
by the pretty bride OF a pilot for one
Of the commercial airlines.
This resourceful young woman
lives in our national capital, hut she
has her washing done in, If you
please, India.
What is more, it takes her only
two weeks, on an average to send
ii and get il back
Precisely how it is managed, I don't
know, but ! can VOuCh for the authen-
ITCHY of the tale, because | saw the
stamped and addressed laundry wrap.
B Ter, bearing a Delhi postmark.
Two Of my friends who used TO
live i'm Honolulu now have their
lighter wash done by the same laun.
dress who did il in the islands. II
travels back and forth TO Hawaii by
Clipper. It's rather expensive, OF
course, but everything is perfectly
finished, and these friends seem TO
april 23, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

Next, my laundry began
10 come back three or four
days late. Buttons no longer
ere mysteriously replaced.
WipS were no longer re.
paired. And instead OF be.
ing a radiant white, tn o
fiat work began 10 take
on Il dismal, melancholy,
gray appearance.
One week, 10 cap the eli.
max, my things didn't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

A ResOurceful Washington, ID. C.,
Woman Has Her Scanties Done
In a "NeighbOrhoOd Laundry" I'm
Delhi, India.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-23

back to a trusted Hollywood retainer,
who duly mailed it 10 the next place
on her itinerary. Incidentally, wives
who have followed their husbands TO
army camps perhaps seem 20 have
Evening star., 1944-01-13

The senses, instincts and emotions
Of human beings are normally SC
engrossing to Hollywood that ii
rarely bothers with the drama that
goes on in the odd hooks and cram
nies of the mind. An exception to
this rule is Flesh and Fantasy. -
which opened at Keith's today. The
Gallo minds of Charles Boyer, CO.
producer as well as one of the pic
lures stars, and Julien Duvivier
have concluded that it is high time
that audiences were given some
thing psychic to excite them. Audi
ences should be duly grateful, for
Flesh and Fantasy" is none of your
standard cinema fare, even though
1t sometimes is not as good motion
picture as it could have been. That
shortcoming lies perhaps in the ma
ture of the story. Certainly it can
not be attributed to lack of en-
thusiasm on the part of a large cast,
which also includes Barbara STAN
wyck, Betty Field, Thomas Mitchell,
Robert Cummings, Dame May
NiAety ollO ThIl1id LICE, dIIlOIlS
others Each plays his, or her, role
in Flesh and Fantasy" as if bound
lessly happy to be illustrating the
darkly dramatic things that are
hiding in what appear to be normal
minds.
The Boyer-Duvivier screenplay is
reminiscent of those which the
French industry used to export to
us in spite of the sturdily American
flavor of the cast.
1t is an episode story in three
parts bound together by the himsi-
est of threads. The first episode,
starring Miss Field and Cummings,
illustrates the power of selfless love
to transform surface ugliness into
beauty, Subject of the process is
Miss Field, who starts her passage
in the picture as an ugly duckling,
through Cummings learns of her
essential inner beauty in spite of the
mask she wears to a Mardi Gras
ball and comes out of the experience
as a ravishingly beautiful girl.
The transition is accomplished
with a modicum of drama, but the
second episode is a much more pow
erful one. 1t has to do with a mind
(See FL FISH AND FANTASY A-17
Evening star., 1944-01-13

as much high explosive and are &C
complished with the same wanton
barbarity. The steady retreat has
about 1t the same inexorability, the
eventual, inevitable doom of the
little group the same quality of sus-
pense. 1t is impossible not to find
certain passages of the picture COM
pletely absorbing in spite of the
familiar pattern, facet of the pic
ture which is tribute to Richard
Thorpe's direction as we'll as to the
skill OF its various characterizations
Major assignment, of course, is
that given to Miss Sullivan as the
nurse in charge of the strange anna
teur personnel, a woman in whom
the germ of death is growing from
day to day but one denied that es-
cape because there is work to do
and a husband, whom she cannot
acknowledge. to be loved and oro-
tected from the sly advances OF Miss
Sothern. 1t is part that could be
overdone by an actress less deft
than Miss SULLIVAN and there may
even be those who question her
success in it.
Others who help most notably to
give Cry Havoc" its impact include
Miss Sothern and Miss Blondell in
closely tailored roles, Miss Hunt as
Evening star., 1944-01-13
MentalDrama Comes to Keith's
Cry Havoc on Capitol Screen
BY JAY CARMODY.

FLESH AND FANTASY" Universal Pic
lures production starring Charles Boyer.
Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field and others;
directed by Julien Duvivier screen play by
Ernest Pascal, Samuel Hoffenstein and
Ellis st. Joseph. At Keith's.
Evening star., 1944-01-13

strained personal relationships that
begot still another kind. Offsetting
these remorselessly grim aspects,
his screenplay finds its brief pas
sageS of humor in the she-wolf
impersonation by Miss Sothern, the
worldly-wise burlesque girl who
eventually begins to doubt that
even the Japs could be worse than
what she is living through.
Cry Havoc" has been produced
on a big scale, the equivalent of
M-G-M's earlier all-male version of
the same heroic episode, "Bataan. "
The hospital bombings consume just
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.
National-"Marianne"::

National-"Marianne": $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Cry Havoc: 1880 am,
1:35, 4:25, ITO and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, 3;35, 6:25 and 9:15 pm.
Columbia - Thousands Cheer:
1870 a In, 2, 4:30, and $50 pm.
Earle Destination Toxic: 10
am, 1885, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1915, 3;15, 6:15 and
e:20 pm.
Keith's Flesh and Fantasy:
11:25 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35 and
e:40 pm.
JEANNE: II am, 1880
2;35, 4:20, sos, 7:50 and $50 pm
Metropolitan - Northern Pur-
suit: 1875 am, 1:35, 3:35, 5:35
7:35 and $40 pm.
Palace-"The Gangs All Here:
Has am, 2:15, 4:45, tbs and 9:3C
pm.
Pix-"Hold Back the Dawn: 2::55
6:15 and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-01-13

ever. the youngster, who is the
blond image OF her mother, will
appear in Make Your Own Bed"
sort Of by remote control.
Her photograph will be seen on
the dresser, as the screen daughter
Of Miss Wyman, who Is starred in
the film.
Evening star., 1944-01-13

LII Cry havoc, the story OF a
group of women participating hero
ically in the fall of Bataan, Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer is dealing with ma
terial that has lost it's first fine
dramatic edge. War correspon-
dents. returned prisoners of war
and previous screenplays have cov-
cred the subject with arresting
eloquence. They have said that
here was an epic of courage, of love
that had about it a tragic grandeur,
that here was a pattern of human
conduct that was incredibly en-
crossing, In spite of the eloquence
with which the story has been told
previously, the film which opened
at the Capitol today manages to
find enough of its own at least
to justify one more retelling. To-
ward that end, the studio wisely
went all out on a cast that includes
Margaret SULLIVAN, Joan Blondell
Marsha Hunt, Ann Sothern, Heath
er Angel, Fay BANTER and a num-
ber of other talented or merely
glamorous creatures. In doing so,
it put itself in position to insist,
not too unreasonably, that it has
found at least one element OF
freshness worthy of attention.
1t is the misfortune of most of
those associated with the sound,
fury, exhaustion and sporadically
funny incident of Cry Havoc"
that they fall into now familiar
grooves. The only novelty, for in
stance, of the fatally stricken with
malignant malaria) nurse who
drives herself to oblivion is that
this time she is played by Miss
Sullivan. There is no whit more
of freshness in Miss Sotherns i'm
personation of hard-boiled nurses
aide on the prowl for an eligible
young officer, nor of the portrait
Iof a bewildered burlesque strip
teaser done with nice understand
ing by Miss Blonden.
x X X X
Ignoring that handicap, however,
Cry Havoc" sets out with its own
special kind of fervor to show that
the drama of Army nurse and
nurses aides lives in the tragedy
of Bataan was an endless and var
led thing. Paul Osborn, author of
the screenplay, has been inexhausti-
bly, patient in overlooking no angle
of the story. He has written that
this was life of constant hazard
from japanese bombs, of cruel phy-
sical exhaustion escapable only
through collapse, of a maddening
lack of necessary medical supplies.
And he has added that there were
many other elements almost as
dramatic, of the inner terrors and
loneliness which represented an
other kind of conflict, and of
Evening star., 1944-01-13

the unrlfned beauty assigned X
drive the groups tired old truck
and Fay BANTER as the captain ot
nurses who scorns the dismal i'm.
plications of the horror through
which they all are living.
Cry Havoc" as we say, has beer
done before, but there are things
about it to remember in spite oil
the story's familiar pattern.
Evening star., 1944-01-13

tSee FLESH AND FANTASY, Al
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Objections Overruled

Most spectacular scene In months
is the fire and water ballet for
MGM's "Mr. Co-Ed." Some of the
girl swimmers protested vigorously
against doing it.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Daughter Is Nearby
On the Dresser
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan
are dead set against their daughter,
Maureen Elizabeth Reagan, age 3
years, appearing in pictures. How
Evening star., 1944-01-13

production starring Margaret SULLIVAN Ann
Sothern and Joan Blondell directed by
Richard Thorpe, screenplay by Paul Osborn
passed upon play by Allan r. Kenward
At Loew's Capitol
Evening star., 1944-03-14

After North's opening heart bid
the only question in South's mind
was whether the final contract
should be six or seven hearts. Be-
ing a rather good player, he pro-
ceeded slowly. first announcing
good hand with his bid of two
spades, then, after Norths raise, cue
bidding in diamonds. When North
showed, strength in clubs, South
needed no more urging; he jumped
to the grand slam in hearts, which,
you can see, Is laydown.
Now it SO happens that East,
while not particularly good bridge
player, Is very fine poker player.
He was convinced that seven hearts
could not be beaten, but, being an
expert buffer, thought he might
frighten North, rather timid play
er, into seven spades, where his five
trumps would probably win a trick.
The double worked like a charm.
South (who afterward kicked him
self for not redoubling) passed and
North, like frightened doe, ran to
seven spades, which East passed
contentedly.
- ~
Yesterday you were Oswald
Jacoby's partner and, with both
sides vulnerable and the opponents
go on score, you held:
ATS
2J853
oK10764
&Q10
The bidding:
Schenken Jacoby Lightner You
IA Dbl. Pass co
Answer-Two hearts. Your part
ner's double invited a response in
"the other major" and besides that,
you must prepare to defend against
the opponents part score. Partners
double may have been shaded be-
cause Of the score, and If you now
bid two diamonds and Schenken
bids two spades, Jacoby may have
to pass. Then you certainly can't
bid three hearts, although that suit
may offer the only good contract.
Score 100 per cent for two hearts,
80 per cent for two diamonds.
Question No. 1,644.
Today you hold the same cards
and the bidding continues:
Evening star., 1944-03-14

observe her superiority over the
river shallops, sloops, ships, ETC.,
who-to gain anything-must make
a zigzag course, while our newly in
vented vessel proceeds in q direct
line.
"On Sunday morning, she sets off
for Chester, and engages to return
in the evening, the whole (distance)
40 miles =.
Fitch is one Of the most in
genious creatures alive, and will GER
tainly make his fortune. I am told
that he now has in contemplation
to build a steam vessel on q larger
scale, which may be capable of car
rying freight and passengers to the
West Indies, and even to Europe"
Those words were written II years
before Fulton made his famous trip
on the Clermont up and down the
Hudson River. AS have said be-
fore, Fulton did fine work for the
steamboat, but he was far from be-
ing the first to make boats move
by steam power.
1llc otdtCIlcIlt tIldt C1CCil WOulQ
certainly make his fortune" seems
strange as we read it today. In
the eight years Fitch lived after the
letter was written, life was all too
hard for him. He wanted to i'm.
prove his steamboat, making it bet
ter and still better, but suffered
from lack Of money to carry out
his plans.
Yet Fitch had some JOY In seeing
his boats actually work. He also
pointed the way to the future. His
dream of a steamboat which would
travel "even to Europe" came true
to 1881 years after his death.
The first Atlantic crossing by q
vessel fitted with seam power was
made by the Savannah. 1t sailed
and steamed from Georgia to Liv-
erpool, England, In Is days. Most
of the crossing was made by wind
power, but steam was used during
a part of the trip.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Uncle Roy's Corner

Some of the models and plans Of
John Fitch's steamboats, have been
lost, but pictures Of them exist. We
also have printed records of trials
which were made by this great in
ventor.
One account was printed in the
New York Magazine in 1870. 1t is
in the form Of a letter dated at
Philadelphia on August 13 Of that
year. and runs as follows:
"Fitch's steamboat really performs
to charm. 1t is pleasure, while
on board her in a contrary wind, to
Evening star., 1944-03-14
AUTOMOBILES WANTED.

BUICK, Pontiac, Olds, sedan, late model
low nmnillsage mileage. wanted this week Cash
BUICK wanted: name your price. will
necticut. Wo. s400
CADILLAC needed for executive in highly
CADILLAC wanted: name your price, will
try to meet 4 it. ef6S Flood Pontiac 1921 Con-
PRIVATE PARTY will pay cash for 1941
Chrysler or De Soto; no dealers. Phone
CO. 1000. Ext. 206-F, Sunday or ewes.
CHEVROLET 1941 4-door sedan. We have
immediate need for this car for an essen
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iSDIvihDUAHLi wants convertible coupe from
isSR fART9 T90R @ pgss ps7 cash for
model, 5-passenger car; price no object.
PRIvAtTE PARTY has all cash for clean
la4o Or 194l Chevrolet. Ford of Plymouth.
FORD wanted; name your price. will
feisiSs'. foRpss AND cHfyqRoIErs urgently need
HUDSON 1882 IS" sedan from original
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Connecticut. Wo. s4%6o % ''A'
PLYMOUTH needed for essential war work
rLYMoGTHsl wASIEp-1;Nans YOUR uriesa 7;
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PONTIAC. will pay premium, cash price foI
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any year or model Bendall Pontiac, TIE
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plenty Of cash right now. Arcade Pontiac
BE SURE TO SEE LOVING before you sci
TO get, the, most cash All makes 4rsentls
FULL RETAIL PRICE paid in cash tol
your car no chizzling; we need cars
Williams Auto Sales 1929 R. L ave. ne
WANT BEST PRICE for your carp See
Loving before you sell. We pay the high
cash price Loving Motors, 1919 NJ st W
j WILL BUY CARS, any, make any condi-
ton will guarantee highest price; or vii
sell for you on commission basis Frank
Used Car Lot, so4 Bladensburs I'd. ne
GovERNMENT WORKER wishes to bu,
good used car; will pay cash Call Trinl
INSURANCE AGENT wants to buy from
original owner, late-model convertible o
club coupe: all cash. Call Mr.. Macmillan
PRIVATE PARTY wants most car ths
$500 cash will buy. 2o2l 2nd st. ne
WANTED TO BUY-Ig4o or Ia4l Plym
outh taxicab with PUG license. Dupon
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$3.50 cash. Must have quickly. Phon
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Evening star., 1944-03-14
N4eA @4

'Sishts In Strange India" is the
title Of q picture leaflet. 1t contains
several hundred words OF text BY
Uncle Ray, To obtain q copy, send Q
self addressed envelope bearing
three-cent stamp to Uncle Ray In
care of this newspaper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
Senotor Rops NeWSpopers

St. Louis, Mo, March T, (UP)-- Sen. Harry 8. Truman, D., Mo, in letter to the St. Louis Star Times, today criticized the press for mak- ing 1t appear that the Legislative branch of government is made up of morons and there are no men of intelligence in Congress"
 He took exception to 6 recent edi~ torial upholding President Roose. welt at the time of Sen. Alben Barys ley's resignation aS senate major ity leader.
 Ever since I have been in the senate 1t has been the policy of the press of the United States to mako 1t appear that the legislative branch of the government is made up of rnoronS and that there are no men of intelligence In Congress" he said.
 That policy has been pursued by the press of the United States and your editorial is no exception. When 1t was tin the public interest for the Congress to cooperate with the President in carrying out the pro- gram to meet the depression, the press almost unanimously called us bunch of pin-heads and rubber stamps, but when we assert any rights under the constitution to control the appropriation of money adn the levying of taxes, we get exactly the same result.
 Nov ask you what you want. A dictatorship or a republic?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT

representatives of industry, bus iness and labor.
 The program, now operative in the Hartford, New Britain, Bristol, Waterbury and Meriden areas, calls for voluntary ceilings on manpower by employers of 20 or more workers. The ceiling level is as of February l, this year. Purpose of the program Is to make more workers available for critical war plants.
 Bridgeport, Conn.--March 6-The Board of Directors of Bridgeport Brass Company has declared reg ular quarterly dividend of $l.375 per share on the outstanding Preferred Stock of the Company, payable March 3l, l944 to Stockholders of record at the close of business on March IT, 1894.
 The Board of Directors also dee clared Q dividend of 26c per share on the outstanding Common Stock Without Par Value of the Company, payable March 3l, l944 to Stock holders of record at the close of business on March IT, 1924.
 Bridgeport Brass Company,
 II. W. JONES,
 Vice President.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
Uruguay Against Argentina Govt.

MOntevideo, Uruguay, March T' (UP)--A motion passed by the chamber of deputies suggesting that Uruguay refrain from recognizing what 1t described as the ''pro-fias- cist de Facto Government" of Ar. gentina was sent today to President Juan Jose Ame4aga.
 The motion, introduced by Carlos RicherC. Communist deputy, as. serted that the Argentine govern ment of Acting President Edelmiro J, Fahrell "conspired against unity and continental armony and sabo- tagged the war efforts of the United Nations"
 Argentina's June { revolution last year, in which the constitutional regime Oe President Ramon 6. Cas- tilio was overthrown, was ( 'dem- onstTation not only of the pro- NAxi character of the government which eprmitted and facilitated actions Of the fifth column and agents cs the Axis, but accented the daily ma. chinations and coTispirAcies cs the Oou (the revolutionary colonelS' cliQue) against the American coun. tries" the motion said.
 ''The oou is . focus cs war dis'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
.S25,OOO DAMAGE
 ACTION SETTLED
Woman Injured in Peculiar Accident; Insurance
 Company Eliminated {

A settlement out of court waa reached today in the e2S, 900 civil action brought by Nellie Chapman of Waterbury against Oreste Castel- lano and the waterbury Troy Steanl Laundry. A hearing in the litigation had been Schedudled to start this morning and prospective jurors had reported for questioning.
 The suit arose from injuries sus- tained by the plaintiff Dec. IS, l9l2 in an unusual accident on East Main street. The woman claimed she was struck and injured by a clothes basket. CaStellano was pulling toward a laundry truck parked near the Palace hotel. She claimed the employe did not look where he was going and gave no warning to her. It was alleged further that the laundry did not give adequate sup~ erintending to collection and delivS cry of the launory.
 A fractured right leg was listed among the injuries and the plaintiff claimed she will always have to use crutches or 0 cane.
 An insurance company which is- sued policies on the laundry trucks was recently exonerated of liability in a hearing in the federal district court in Hartford. It was rurled that the policy covered liability only in- volving the vehicle and since tho clothes basket was not in the truck and the vehicle was not involved the insurance company could not assume responsibility.
 Attorney Irving D. Johnson and Attornel William w. Gager repre- sented the plaintiff, while Attor- ney Frank T. Healey and the firm of Pelgrift and Blumenfeld of Hartford appeared for the defendS ants.