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Since photographer Mike'
Lavelie got his first picture
of Frances (“The Shape”)
Vorne into a national maga-
zine he has been deluged
with requests from fliers in
the Pacific area for pictures
of the lovely lass. Above is
a new photo Of “The Shape”
which the fliers plan to drop
over Japanese positions with
the inscription: “Eat your
hearts out, you monkeys—
here’s what we’re fighting
for.” In this picture, “The
Shane” wears a swim suit
made from a captured Nazi
parachute.
.DOG IN ILLINOIS IS
EXILED TO ARKANSAS
FOR SATING AUTOS’
LICENSE PLATES
“Bobo,” a dog residing in
Springfield, Ill., was saved
from the death cell of the
city pound last week, to
which he had been sentenc-
ed because of his unusual
appetite for Illinois’new soy-
bean license plates. A local
chaplain stepped in and ar-
ranged to send Bobo to Ar-
kansas where lie hopes the
dog will not be subject to
temptation. •
THuyaf-dLs ‘J'JiO/n (fyhoadjUfjOLjy.
The Iceland, a Broadway'
night spot, is featuring a
show one night a week com-
posed entirely of former ser-
vicemen arid women ....
DEAR RUTH, a charming
comedy by Norman Krasria,
a Hollywood scriptwriter, is
set for a good Broadway run.
It concerns a l(i-year-old girl
who writes a flier overseas,
signing her older sister’s
name. Leriore Lonergan,
who played “Fluffy” in JUN-
IOR MISS, is the amusing
adolescent who carries on
the devilish deception even
after the aviator turns up
on furlough. A spanking
good comedy. .. . Margo, she
of the big hips and the se-
ductive lips, lias the chief
feminine role in A BELL
FOR ADANO, which is do-
ing all right on Broadway
these nights.
Lurerie Bacall, the screen’s
latest siren, wliqse appear-
ance in TO HAVE AND
HAVE NOT is eagerly
awaited by IRC GIs, is tall,
angular and weighs 119
pound stripped. She was
born in New York City 21 !
years ago. She lives with her
mother in a small Beverly
Hills apartment, and she
says that she doesn’t date
Hollywood aClors or studio
officials because she is “too
absorbed in her Work.”
Sammy Kaye fingers his
necktie while speaking into
a mike. Ha can he heard j
weekly over the local GI sta-
tion .... Marion LoveridgeJ
16, radio singer, plants a kiss
on (lie microphone when her
urogram leaves the air ... . |
Turban Bey, latest screen1
dam or boy, smokes a pipe
when, he dances .... Straw-!
ferry-haired Lucille Ball
anee earned $15 a week be-
'ind a soda fountain ....
Dotty Lamour claims that
die never jerked an eleva-
tor during her career as an
operator at a Chicago store.
jack Benny has finally
‘-urned up with a successor
to Dennv Day who’s, now in
the Navy — and, according
to “Variety” magazine, ready
to go overseas. The new voc-
alist for the Benny show,
now sponsored by the cigar-
ette firm which backs the
“Hit Parade,” is Larry Stev-
ens. Honorably discharged
from the AAF, Stevens has
a high baritone voice instead
of a tenor voice like Den-
nis Dav, Kennv Baker and
I
Frank Parker who have held |
the vocal spot on the Benny,
show at one time or other.
Faye Emerson has empha-
tically informed Hedda Hop-
per that she is not going to
have a baby. Faye married
Col. Elliot Roosevelt recent-
ly .... Not to he outdone in
the anti-stork propaganda,
Columnist Harrison Carrol
has announced that Anne
Stirling, Tommy Warner’s
estranged bride, isn’t expect-
ing either .... Fred Allen
has Ibis to say for Califor-
nia: “Nothing hut optimism
and oranges — destroy one
or the other, and you destroy
the whole system.’”
THE LUNATIC
In Beachhufst, Queens, N
Y., canine “pickets” were
paraded through the streets
last week with signs attach-
ed to their collars reading
“Unfair To Dogs.” The dogs’
owners staged Hie unusual
procession in a drive for
signatures to rescind a city
rabies-control rule which
stipulates- that dogs found
without leashes must be con-
fined for six months in vet-
erinary hospitals.
Pittsburgh streetcar motor-
men are complaining that
the public is suffering from
war nerves. Recently a pass-
enger refused lo pay his fare,
and when the motorman in-
sisted, the passenger bopped
him on the head with a
hammer.
Official sympathy' for the
losing player of a slot mach-
ine was shown in ej Chattan-
ooga, Tenn., courtroom
when the judge released a
defendant charged with tos-
ing the slot machine through
a window because lie “got
mad when it wouldn’t pay
off.”
An 80-year-old man in Se-
minole, Okla., applied for a
marriage license and appear-
ed stumped when asked the
name of his 77-year-old
bride-to-be. “I don’t know,”
ie admitted. “But most of
my wives were named Mary.”
While a thousand happy
Philadelphia parishioners
attended a dinner celebrat-
ing the burning of their
church mortgage, a gas tank
attached to a stove exploded
and the whole building went
up in flames. Firemen, rush-
ing in to fight the blaze, were
•greeted by the sign: “Wel-
come to our mortgage burn-
NATIONAL SERVICE ACT PROPOSAL
BUCKING OPPOSITION, NEW YORK
SAID VULNERABLE TO NAZI BOMBS,
MOTORIST RUNS CAR ON COAL OIL
Considerable opposition is reported in the newly-
convened 79lh Congress to Pres. Roosevelt’s proposal
for a national-service act which would place U.S. work-
ers under government control for the duration of the ’
war. Republican congressmen and spokesmen for org-
anized labor are said to be strongly against ariy all-
out move to “mobilize” American manpower. Prompt
action, however, is foreseen on the proposal to draft
nurses as well as 4Fs who refuse war jobs arid oc-
cupatioriallv-deferred registrants who change jobs with-
out consent of their draft boards.
There is still some talk back home over the possibility
that the Nazis may direct flying bombs against New
York City and vicinity. Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, com-
mander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, described the
“danger zone” as a 300-mile arc off the Atlantic coast-
line and added that the Germans might take up posi-
tions—via submarine or surface craft—200 miles off
New York.
The Air Transport Command reports that American
soldiers, wounded on Leyte, are being flown to the U.S_
iri one day. Carrying 20 lo 36 litter patients, four-eng-
ined Douglas C54 Skymasters now regularly make the
8,000-milc flight in 39 hours or less, pausing at four
islands to refuel. Because of the loss of a day in cross-
ing the international dateline, the wounded travel only
one calendar day.
In Syracuse, N.Y., unemployed men and women who
are brought before Judge Homer V. Walsh on minor-
charges will hereafter get six months in jail—unless they
accept a job in a war plaht.
In a poll conducted by the trade publication, Film
Daily, motion picture critics voted Bing Crosby's per-
formance in “Going My Way” and Jennifer Jones’ per-
formance in “Song of Bernadette” as the year’s best~
Spencer Tracy’s’ work in “A Guy Named Joe" was
rated second in the male class, while Ingrid Bergman
was second in the female class for her role in “Gas-
light.” In The White Falcon poll, winners were Miss
Bergman and Gary Cooper.
A New Orleans motorist, nabbed for speeding the
other day', was told that one more such violation would
mean he‘d have to surrender his gasoline ration card..,
“But I don't have one, nor do I need one,” he told OPA
officials. “I burn a mixture of coal oil and cleaning-'
fluid in my automobile. However, I don’t recommend
the stuff,” he added, “because when you use the mixt-
ure you have lo get a push to start the motor.”
According to a report from Madison, Wis., 263 World
War veterans are now attending the University of Wis-
consin, three of whom are women. Forty-seven of the
vets are studying engineering, 43—agriculture, nine-
law, three—journalism, 12—education while the remain-
der are in the college of letters and science. Most of
the veterans are freshmen. There are 106 in the 21 23
:iw,. arnir'. 63 in the 18 20 age .'group, five -who arc l
between 21 and 26, and 15 who are between 27 and 29.
Fight of them are past 30. Most of the veterans arc at-
tending the university under provisions of the GI Bill
of Bights.
Iteemen Get Mi
William Ivyne, General
Manager of the Bay Mead-
ows Race Track, yesterday
announced that $105,000 of
the money turned over to
the California Breeder’s As-
sociation during the war will
he allocated for the aid of
horse owners distressed by-;
the Federal ban on racing...
Army Takes Care Of That
The Army’s Troop Move-
ment Division at Ft. Sill. 1
Okla., states that 65 percent
of all selectees here had nev- -
er ridden on a train before
theyr were inducted.