TIRE S-According to John L. Collyer, president of B. F. Good
rich. in whose Akron, O., plant this scene of “super-quick recon
version” was glimpsed, tires may be unrationed before the end
of the year.
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Mail Serviee
BERLIN. Sept. 24—(£>)—Soviet
authoriites has announced the full
restoration of mail service
throughout the Russian-occupied
zone of Germany.
LET’S UNLEASH
THE NOON SIREN
Recently we have been asked,
quite a number of times, why the
noon siren is not being sounded,
since the war is apparently over.
Perhaps something can be done
about it.
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Sixteen Years With Hollywood’s Stars
THE MOVIES SCORE TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT;
EMERGE AS A FORCE FOR WORLD GOOD
By ROBBINS COONS <JP) Newsfeatures Writer
SIXTH AND LAST OF A SERIES
HOLLYWOOD — Hollywood is
known for its frivolities, its esca
pades, its romances, its divorces,
its wealth, its feuds, its fabulous
standards of living.
I like to think of it also—and
much more importantly—as a tre
mendous force in the world wher
ever its pictures are seen. Holly
wood is realizing this, somewhat
belatedly, just as it was slow in
overcoming its inferiority complex
concerning the Broadway stage.
Good things have come out of
Hollywood in the past, and better
things are in store. For a long
time the technical perfection of
Hollywood films was more intrig
uing—to me, at least—than their
too often trite stories and their
generally formularized content.
But pictures have improved
MARLENE DIETRICH
. . . Glamor, Edition One . . .
LAUREN BACALL
. . . Glamor, Edition Two . . .
Two heads are better than one,
but not in the same family.
Wins Navy Cross
Tiavy Photo
Soundphoto—U. S. S. Barb, sub
marine, wrecked a Jap convoy at
anchor in one of the most daring
attacks of the war. Photo 6hows
Vice Admiral Charles A. Lock
wood pinning the Navy cross on
Commander Eugene B. Fluckey,
Washington, D. C., aboard the U.
S. sub, U. S. S. Barb.
In India and Persia, the cheeta'
has been used for centuries in
hunting antelopes and other game.
through the years, and they ar
still improving—with new direc
tors, new writers, new writer-di
rectors like Billy Wilder and Pres
ton Sturges . . .
Continuous Procses
But this is where I came in
Then, too there were new writers
new directors, mostly from th<
stage because it was assumed thej
could teach silent picture actors
to talk. There was an influx ol
stage actors (Ann Harding, Ina
Claire, George Arliss among them)
some of whom went to film
heights. The “new people” have
kept coming—Greer Garson with
her charm and wit, lovely Ingrid
Bergman, sultry Lana Turner, vi
vacious Paulette Goddard, pretty
Claudette with her humor, her
self-styled “good” angle, multi
talented Ginger, Ann Sheridan
whose hearty Texas appetitie al
ways kidded the “oomph” rating,
John Garfield (his story and sin
cerity so impressed me that I
wrote two pieces on him at first
meeting, and he’s never let them
down', John Wayne, Dorothy Mc
Guire, Sinatra, Van Johnson, John
Hodiak. When I came in, the in,
the inscrutable glamor girls was
Dietrich—today it’s Lauren Ba
call . . .
And this is where I go out, leav
ing my post as innocent (more or
less' bystander on the Hollywood
scene for another show where the
excitement <so they tell me' is
somewhat more intense. (Anybody
know of a plush-lined foxhole,
with Ciro’s service?)
Fine Memories
It’s quite a wrench, leaving; but
the memories are good. I think of
many, many things—but mostly
friends and such.
It is an honor and a privilege to
be permitted to take a small place
in the line of men who have gone
from our Los Angeles bureau to
cover the greatest show. You
know them: Daniel DeLuce, Rei
man Morin, Charlie McMurtry,
Rembert James, Vern Haughland,
Jim Lindsley, Frank Filan, Wade
Werner, Gladwin Hill . . .
I can’t count the number of my
friends in Hollywood who said,
when they heard my news, “You
lucky guy!”
That’s the way I feel, too. Lucky
and happy, and humble and—
well, a very glad Joe.
Clear Heads Choose Calvert’s
CLOTHES STRAIN
Just in the course of a man’s everyday activities
his clothes take such a beating they often become
shapeless and baggy long before they wear out.
Let us restore their original sparkle and shape
liness.
The collar always fits snugly — the lapels al
ways roll softly — the whole garment restored to
its original unbroken smartness.
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