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Last week the grunion were running in full flow, and Southern Californians, as usual, were there to greet and catch them. Tide and moon tables were posted on the desk of many a businessman. On proper nights, autos jammed the highway from Malibu to Santa Monica; beach fires crackled from Long Beach to San Diego. As usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since...
Warner Bros. technicians had to protect the big Douglas plant at Santa Monica against twin risks. Within easy periscope sight from the Pacific, it was vulnerable to shells as well as bombs. Forehanded Douglas architects had their camouflage plan ready before Pearl Harbor. The moviemen made miniatures, photographed them from simulated bombing altitudes. Building a dummy airport, phony plant and fake residential subdivision (complete with washing on the clothes lines) took 2½ years, $2½ million. It was duplicated on the plant when war came...
...church has $3,400,000 in assets - two laundries, six hotels, business build ings, five restaurants, two canneries, two lumber mills, Santa Monica's lush Sorrento Beach Club, 1,000 head of cattle, a cheese factory and 10,000 acres of land...
Died. Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital...
Paulette Goddard, critically ill with an abdominal pregnancy, was rushed to a Santa Monica hospital for an emergency operation, lost her baby (four months along), but was declared "out of danger" after receiving several blood transfusions...