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...kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition and two ventriloquists. Audiences, having the time of their fathers' lives, top it all off with some lusty community singing. Producer Grauman has given West Coast crowds the same kind of old time fun that Billy Rose has long since made profitable in the East...
...club is limited in only one way. They have a wonderful clubroom, equipped with radios, victories, bridge tables, ping-pong tables and a coke-machine, but they cannot get in touch with the other communication officer's wives who are not as yet club members. It was explained that there were so many of these wives housed in many different parts of Cambridge that it was hard to look them...
...them, say: "There doesn't seem much time to think about Christmas this year, and anyway the setting is all screwy." Which, of course, it is. It is a far cry from carol singers tramping through the snow to the lean, gaunt, green-garbed Americans squirming through drip ping man-high Kunai grass, or sniping Japs from the fronded tops of coconut palms, or flitting like phantoms from tree to tree in the weird firefly-spangled jungle...
Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...
...local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc, brass, etc.) and under...