By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
/^\NE of the fifteen magazine
Vy models now working in
“Cover Girl,” starring Rita
Hayworth, will begin her real
movie career with a complete
wardrobe. The Cover Girls
are contributing a dollar a
week apiece for 13 weeks, to be set
aside as a "career starter fund."
The full amount— $195—will be
matched by the first star, making
$390. The first Cover Girl who re
ceives a bona fide screen ofFer
after finishing her role at Columbia
will win the entire amount, to be
spent on a wardrobe.
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Joan Leslie, co-starred with Fred
Astaire in RKO Radio's "The Sky’s
the Limit,’’ made her film debut five
years ago as a child actress in their
^ "Laddie”; she was Joan Brodel
then. She moved right along, play
JOAN LESLIE
ing opposite Gary Cooper in "Ser
geant York,” and Jimmie Cagney in
"Yankee Doodle Dandy.” A year
ago Astaire saw her dance and said:
"One of these days she’s going to be
my partner!”
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Leslie Howard, young daughter of
a famous father, is all set to carry
on a famous name. Remember how
very good she was in her radio ap
pearances? She makes her film de
but with her father in “Spitfire.”
Another daughter of a famous par
ent, Mary Hayes, daughter of Helen,
makes her bow with her mother,
this month, in a special Girl Scouts'
radio program.
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Walter Brennan, Hollywood’s only
three-time Academy Award winner,
celebrates his 25th year as a film
character actor while he’s appear
ing in Samuel Goldwyn’s "North
Star.’’ And his youngest daughter
makes her debut, as his grand
daughter.
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Real French - Canadian troops
make their film debut in the Com
mando raid sequence of the Merle
Oberon-Brian Aherne film, "First
Comes Courage.” We’re told that
Commando tactics never before re
vealed to the public are demonstral
ed by the 300-men tank force which
performed for the cameras at
Beecher Bay, Vancouver Island,
B. C. It was looked on as excellent
combat training for the troops.
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Open house for servicemen in
Hollywood is a daily routine of
hospitality in the Harry Sherman
studios; an average of 30 soldiers,
sailors and marines has been watch
ing Albert Decker and Claire Trevor
in “The Gunmaster.” Sherman has
also opened his sound stages for par
ties for men in uniform; the other
night 150 soldiers were invited to in
formal festivities at the end of the
day’s work.
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Jennifer Jones, who landed the
lead in “The Song of Bernadette,"
nearing completion, has joined the
all-star cast of “Since You Went
Away." Claudette Colbert plays
the young mother; Shirley Temple
. and Jennifer are her daughters.
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Wendell Niles was unable to get
overseas passage with Bob Hope, so
he stayed home to be actor-announc
«r on Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop,
the summer replacement for Bob’s
program. Mercer is going to double
Irom his radio show to write Metro’s
“Ziegfeld Follies."
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If those red and blue ration cou
pons have been bothering you, be
sure to see the latest Lum and Ab
ner picture when it comes your way.
The famous Jot ’Em Down Store of
Pine Ridge, Ark., is the scene of all
sorts of mixups with the coupons,
sugar and coffee tickets, and Lum
and Abner’s duties as air raid war
dens and ration board and tire in
spectors as materiaL
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ODDS AND ENDS-Jose IturbCa
making a film for Metro, in which he
portrays himself . . . Louis Armstrong, j
No. 1 trumpet man, is the laundry's
best friend—used a dozen handker
chiefs for mopping purposes one
morning recently, while recording for
"Jam Sessson” . . . Betty Hutton has
played a girl who earns her own living
in every one of her pictures to date,
• . . Lupe Veles had her first case of
stage fright when she had to handle B
very young baby in “Mexican Spitfire’s
Blessed Evenr—the fact that the baby
could work only two minutes at a time I
0 teas all that meed herl
Transform Axis Stronghold Into an Allied Base
After surrender of PanteHeria, a series of patrols was organized to search for stray enemy units and
snipers. At upper left three British fighters pick their way through a battered street. At upper right a bull*
dozer clears away rubble as the island is turned into a base for use against the Axis. Italian soldiers, marines,
and sailors stand in line (bottom) waiting for transportation from the former Axis stronghold.
French Girls Help Stage ‘South Sea Scandals’
Servicemen In tbe South Seas pooled their talents, added some local Fighting French girls and put on a
ihow entitled “South Sea Scandals.'* At left is the opening with Corp. George Donlevy. Gordon H. Pflee
jer. Fleet Musician USMC (center) is featured in an imitation of the thorough work of the censors. At right
he girls of tbe show are pictured getting ready for a performance.
Seized by FBI in Spy Hunt
These two men have been arrested as spies by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Erwin Harry De Spretter (left) had been making gun
lights for our armed forces. He admitted guilt in connection with send
ng Information to Germany. Ernest Frederick Lehmitz (right) was
mown as a highly efficient air raid warden. He is accused of informing
Germany of U. S. convoy movements.
Fighters Put on Their Armor
Members of a crew of a Flying Fortress are shown helping each other
Ion their armored flying vests at a United States bomber station in
England. Made of tough manganese steel, these vests protect the airmen
Tom flak shrapnel and fragments of cannon shells. A quick poll on a
ip cord causes the vest to fall away from the body.
Hurdles to Health
Wounded American soldiers now
take special exercises in hospital
gymnasiums to rehabilitate their in
jured limbs and muscles. Private
Ralph Johnson is assisted over these
foot-high hurdles by Sergt. D. D.
Gilbert. They are hospitalized over
seas.
Food Administrator
Judge Marvin Jones, second in
command to Economic Stabilizer
James Byrnes, is sworn in as war
food administrator by Chief Justice
S. Whaley of the United States court
el claims. _
Seabees Move In as Battle Rages
Even as American and Japanese forces on the Aleutian island of
Attu blasted away at each other, Seabecs of the navy set up bases, supply
centers, and generally started military housekeeping. Here a truck car
ries supplies from a landing boat somewhere along the shoreline.
TELEFACT
INCOME PAYMENTS AND TAXES
July in the North Atlantic
It’s summer, but these bluejackets on a United States navy aircraft
carrier scrape ice and snow off the flight deck as their ship lies at
anchor at a North Atlantic port. The planes are Grumman Avenger
torpedo bombers. A German publication recently explained the redaction
in U-boat activity by stating that the use of aircraft carriers to pro
tect Allied convoys had taken the Germans by surprise.
Art Aids Healing of Fighters
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A painting by Marine Pvt. Charles West meets the approval of Miss
' Florence Hislop, New Zealand member of the American Red Cross who
instituted a program of occupational therapy for convalescing service
men in a U. S. naval hospital there. Included in the program are the
I arts of leather tooling, painting, and wood carving.
In Prison at 13
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Edward 8. Dow, 13-year-old school
boy of Newbnryport, Mass., is pic
tured striding into the state prison
to begin a 14 to 20 year term as
the youngest Inmate in Massachu
setts history. He was convicted of
manslaughter in connection with the
hammer death of a 72-year-old
spinster.
Reunion
Senator Alben Barkley of Ken
tucky proudly poses at Randolph
Field, Texas, with his granddaugh
ter, Dorothy Anne, daughter of MJr.
and Mrs. D. M. Barkley. This was
the first meeting of Miss Barkley
and her grandfather and was the
first time the senator had seen bis
son since 1941.
Underwater Ballet
Scene from an underwater ballet
routine performed in a Lot Angeles
swimming pool by Belita, an ice
skating star, and her partner, Bob
Billard. Belita claims that under
water ballet helps to perfect her
sense of rhythm and grace.
Flying Garage
A Jeep is shown being loaded into
one of the hhge gliders being bnilt
for the army. The noses of the
gliders are hinged. They are towed
to the destination of their cargo by
bomber planes.