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Training schools of the Royal Canadian Air Force hummed with activity. Here was a nation depicted as it went to war in a big way. Mitch shifted uneasily in his chair, growing more annoyed every minute. Suddenly the features of William Lyon Mackenzie King flashed upon the screen as the Prime Minister outlined the Government's large-scale war measures...
...across the screen marched battalions of snappy, young soldiers in new khaki uniforms with new Lee-Enfield rifles...
...dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...
Died. John Monk Saunders, 42, Hollywood screen writer (Wings, The Dawn Patrol, The Last Flight), divorced husband of Cinemactress Fay Wray; by his own hand (hanging) while in ill health; in Fort Myers, Fla. His last film story, bought by Paramount, was based on news reports of a French "suicide corps" formed by hopelessly...
...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...