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When the ultimatum expired, with only about three hours of daylight left to fight, the British Commander, Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville, felt he could wait no longer. With three capital ships, an aircraft carrier, three cruisers and a strong screen of destroyers he went into action. When he opened fire most of the French men of war were unprepared. So far as these pictures show, they never fired a shot...
...Dodecanese (Twelve Islands) are really 13 islands off the southwest of Turkey which Italy grabbed in 1912 during the scrap with Turkey for Tripoli. Rhodes is the biggest of them. Being unable to raise so much as a smoke screen from the Latin enemy, the Eastern Mediterranean Command decided to bite at the Dodecanese and hope for an answer...
Last May, when the film was completed, it was gravely announced that Shirley Temple,11, was temporarily retiring from the screen. Her previous picture, a gaudy, $1,000,000 adaptation of The Bluebird, was still in the red, and Shirley's huge foreign market had gone off to war. So Fox handed Shirley an accumulated bonus of $300,000, packed up the toys in her studio bungalow and wished her luck...
Last week Baritone Tibbett flew to Los Angeles, flew back with the support of the Screen Actors Guild against "encroachment on [A. G. M. A.'s] jurisdiction." If Boss Petrillo continued to act tough, it looked as if the music industry might land...
...historic ceremony, Miss Padelford, wearing traditional white dress and veil and carrying a bouquet of heat-stricken gardenias, chewed quietly upon a wad of gum, as did her three bridesmaids. Constantly eased out of camera range by Bridegroom Hazen, Miss Padelford was only occasionally visible on the television screen. Municipal Judge Joseph Marchetti, who performed the ceremony, was inundated with confetti (rice will not televise) by a prop man with deplorable aim. After the service, while the organ moaned through Lohengrin, relatives of the bride and groom made a mad rush to congratulate the newlyweds...