Where Seeing Is Not Believing
This peaceful village isn’t—it just doesn’t exist—look again, closely this time. You can see that the
houses only look like houses and the trees are strictly imitation. About the only real things here are the
girls, Socette Lamoreaux and Elinor Offenbach, who use a “safe” catwalk and stay off the ehickenwire
farmland of this elaborate camouflage which has been built to protect a vital B-29 plant from threat of pos
sible Japanese ah* raids. This is the first photograph of this camouflage project—the top of a factory!
USS Santa Fe, Cruiser \\ ith a Record
In picture at left a destroyer
transfers wounded men from anotli
4 er ship to the USS Santa Fe (right)
| for treatment after an action in ihe
Pacific. This cruiser has an envi
able record in the Pacific war. She
has taken part in many major en
gagements and never lost a man in
action. Above: A striking photo
made from the bridge of the Santa
Fe as the cruiser rode out a typhoon
while operating with a fast carrier
task force in the South China Sea.
Vienna Comes Back to Life
Once gay Vienna is grim as her people, who saw war at close hand,
return to her ruins. The city, so bitterly fought for, is again coming to
life as the citizens come plodding back with their possessions piled high
oa hand carts.
First Witness Testifies in Petain Trial
The first witness called to testify in the historic trial of aged Marshal
Henri Petaia in the Palais de Justice in Paris, Paul Reynaud, stands at
left (arrow) as Petain, seated, right, cups bis hand to his ear to hear
better. Reynaud resigned as premier of France when the country was
toppling in 1949.
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Make History
Happy honeymooners, after the
first American wedding: in retaken
Austria, are Lt. David Paiowsky of
Chicago and American Red Cross
Worker Betty Ann Golt of Philadel
ohia. Pa. Stationed in England,
Mrs. Palowsky flew to Austria in
the plane of Major General Taylor.
Crime Wave Blister
Lawman, Cpl. W. W. Horton of
New York State troopers, and his
favorite bloodhound. Together they
have tracked down many a lost
child as well as escaped criminal.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
ROBERT WALKER, Kee
nan Wynn and others on
the M-G-M lot were discuss
ing plans for the filming of
“What Next, Corporal Har
grove?” when Wynn turned to
Walker and remarked “Bob,
you’ve been in the armed
forces so long now that you surely ;
must have enough points to become
a civilian.’’ The crack was occa
sioned by the fact that out of eight
pictures Walker has made, six have
had him in uniforms of the armed
forces. In real life he was turned
down because of defective eyesight.
But Van Johnson beat Walker's rec
ord; he’s been in uniform for eight
pictures; injuries suffered in that
motorcycle accident two years ago
made him a civilian in private life.
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Keenan Wynn was about to be in
ducted when he, like Johnson, met
fate in the form of a motorcycle
accident. He’s worn uniforms in
several pictures. He and Johnson
both wear cits in "Early to Bed,"
Wynn’s first since his recovery and
return to the studio.
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Tommy Dorsey will star in a mu
sical film tentatively called "My
Brother Leads a Band," for United
Artists. It's scheduled to go before
TOMMY DORSEY
the cameras some time during the
12 weeks Dorsey is on the Coast tor
his Sunday afternoon radio program.
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Kenny Gardner, former singer
with Guy Lombardo’s orchestra,
now with the armed forces, has just
received the Bronze Star for brav- |
ery on the field of battle. Kenny, I
who’s married to Elaine Lombardo,
Guy’s sister, is a first lieutenant
with Patton’s Third army.
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There’s a myth that all you have
to do to break into pictures is sit on
a drug-store stool near Hollywood
high school and be discovered by a
talent scout. Lana Turner was, they
say. And Ann Sheridan’s sister
mailed her picture to the Dallas
News and Annie became a star. But
—Bette Davis. Ida Lupino, Jennifer
Jones, and hosts of others worked
like dogs before they ever heard the
rattle of a contract.
After a month’s search and two
weeks of screen tests to find just the
right bathing suit for Jane Russell
to wear in beach scenes for Hunt
Stromberg’s “Young Widow," the
search ended—in Jane’s own clothes
ckisfct. Dozens of suits had been
bought, a knitting mill in Oregon
was commissioned to make special >
ones. You'll see Jan* wearing on<
she bought last year at a neighbor
hood store.
While most of her ela»*mate« i
the graduating class at Westlak
School for Girls began their vac
lions, Shirley Tempi ■ we.it hack »
work. Slie headed for the Paci'
Northwest ant an extend d tour *
army hospitals. Her latest pictui
is “I’ll Be Seeing You.”
Laraine Day is one- of Hollywood
most enthusiastic collectors of 1
mm. films—her collection rates wi
those of Cary Grant. Deanna Du
bin, Lou Costello and Alice Fay
While working on “Those F.ndearii
Young Charms" she acquired a pro
of her first picture, “Border G-Men
She was 16 when she made it, ai
supported George O’Brien in it. An
she was pretty good in it, too.
Twenty different government agen
cies are providing material for the
“Now It Can Be Told” series, broad
cast Monday through Friday eve
nings over Mutual. This is the pro
gram produced by Dan Seymour
which features dramatizations of
material never before revealed.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Eileen Farrell is
considering an offer to make a concert
tour in South America. . . . Ralph Hell’s
had such training in gangster roles in
“Crime Doctor” that he’s been given tl •
lend in a new radio program, “Prof.
Broadway and Boitram": it deals with
the sume kind of tough characters heard
in “Crime Doctor. . . Trudy Erwin of
the “By Request’’ air show hat a mascot
—tiny diamond earrings in the shape of
musical clefs; she always wears them
when she broadcasts. . . . Dick Powell is
assembling material for a movie sce
nario based on a haunted hotel—oddly
enough, he’s working in a detective
character that he'll play himself.
Lighter Moments for 2 of "Big 3’
Just a couple of the hoys enjoying; a good laugh, President Harry S.
Truman and Marshal Joseph Stalin are pictured during an Informal
moment preceding one of the Big Three meetings in Berlin’s Potsdam
suburb.
If It Isn’t One Thing It’s Another
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Robert Lee of Atlanta thought he had solved his transportation prob
lem by dismantling the family flivver and nsing the wheels on a mule
drawn wagon. But using hay Instead of gas wasn’t enough. Tires still
wear out and give trouble. Here is improviser Lee replacing a wheel
after he had fixed a fiat. The mule says nothing—just looks wise.
Navy's Floating Ice Cream Parlor
This may iook just like an ugly barge to you, but It is the corner
drugstore to thousands of men of the Pacific fleet. The barge has a plant
that can turn out ten quarts of ice cream every seven minutes. It can
also produce five tons of ice daily. Below: A chief storekeeper is hand
ing out a container of ice cream to a “customer” who came for it in
a small boat.
‘Fraternization’ in Berlin
The ban has been lifted. The Berlin frauleins are no longer out of
bounds for American G.I.s. Here G.I. and fraulein couples demonstrate
various phases of the art of fraternization in a Berlin park. It wasn’t so
long ago when even a “hello’’ cost the friendly G.I. a $6i fine, and the
G.I-’s attitude was plainly, “Go away, (iris, yon bother me.’’
‘Son of Division’
Twelve-year-old Joseph Parentba,
a Polish orphan, was taken aboard
the army transport ‘‘Marine Pan
ther” with returning G.I.s. Dressed
in miniature uniform he is pictured
here with CpI. Lee Ritchey of Tulsa,
Okla., who hopes to adopt him.
‘Unconditional’
Capt. E. M. Zaeharias of the U. S.
navy, who learned to speak Japa
nese while attached to the U. S. em
bassy in Tokyo, speaking through
| OWI facilities to Jap leadej-s. He
told them an unconditional surren
der can save Japan from complete
extinction.
U. S. Flag in Berlin
Standing’ In a group which in
! dudes Generals George Patton and
Omar Bradley, Secretary of War
; Stimson and President Truman see
j Old Glory raised over the Group
Control Council of the U. S. In Ber
lin. This flag was flown over Rome
following Italy’s surrender.
Buddies
“Sake,” monkey mascot of the
marine section, fleet post office, at
a Pacific island base, roosts on the
head of T/Sgt. Roy Donaldson of
Dallas, Texas. Donaldson is a jun
gle fighter of long standing.