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At Long Beach bond rally base ball game between Harry James' band and Freddie Martin’s men brought in over three million dol lars. Betty’s last pair of cobwebby EL'- 1 O • nylons brought forty thousand from eager bidder. ■ ?• Ch eerful Earful One of Hollywood’^ This Week at Esquire Theater Child Photo Contest Cobina’ Wright Jr. Bcaudette’s Ladies Coming Soon hl ‘Madame Curie’ young son was born same day the HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (FP)—Raw facts of this war have to be Greer Garson, one at Holly telephone of a friend rang and a told and the Army and Navy have the films that can do it. War worker* Set for Valentine wood’s “first ladies” will soon ap have to realize thatthey are pitted, man for man and woman for cheerful voice announced, “This1 is pear as Madame Curie in the film woman, agains the workers and machines of Nazi Europe and Japan. Cobina. Have you heard about my portrayal of the famous woman We have to look on casualties in the making and be steeled for V ar Bonds To Be baby? It arrived this morning!” scientist. The new M-G-M picture Tarawas on a continental scale, j is based on Madame Curie’s biog And that wasn’t the only call Labor leaders and such govern lic were the newsreel shots of the Awarded the Winners raphy written by her daughter,, ment men as Director Elmer Davis placed by the enthusiastic young Eve, and was adapted for the bloody battle of Tarawa. But even of the OWI are for giving the these scenes had their grimmest A beautiful child photo contest was announced this mother. You might quote that to screen by Paul Osborn and Paul facts, no matter how brutal. Mili week’ by the management of Loew’s Valentine Theater in co H. Rameau. Walter Pidgeon will portions eliminated. the next biddy who says our gen tary authorities also seem inclined It is reported from Washington operation with the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL. War Bonds play opposite Miss Garson and to let the public see films that will eration is soft, and starts to give Mervyn LeRoy will direct. that the navy’s full official film of totaling $175 will be awarded the winners. Prizes of $100, you that rugged grandmother rou jolt it out of any complacencj the battle of Tarawa may be In a recent interview tho red War Department Report, a film $50 and $25 in War Bonds will be given the three children tine. headed star, whose smash hits placed before the public to correct now ready for factory and theatre its soft view of the war, and to chosen. “Random Harvest” and “Mrs. Min A showings in 300 cities, is the gen Inspires Photo Contest iver” catapulted her into fame, prepare us for the casualties of Inspiration for the contest eral staff’s official report to Amer European invasion. is adorable Margaret O’Brien, said that the role of Madame Curie ican war workers. It combines cap is the most difficult she has ever Willkie’s Book for Films Hollywood child star whose new tured enemy film with footage played. shot by our own service camera One World Waxed. The scenario picture, “Lost Angel”, comes to “During its production,” she ex based on Wendell L. Willkie’s One the screen of Loew’s Valentine A -i.. men, and shows that fighting men plained, “it was necessary to learn World is being completely record theatre beginning with a special are at the other end of the moving war workers’ “Midnite to Dawn” how to handle test tubes and other conveyor belt that starts iz the ed for Darryl Zanuc by a radio showing at midnight, January 12. apparatus belonging to the ^quip-' war plants at home. producer before the 20th Century- ' & ment of a physicist. While I re It shows the enemy’s resources Fox producer determines the final Rules of Contest ' ma, 3 membered something about labora in materials, machines and men. It form of filming. This is the tech Rules of the child photo contest i " -fat, /< tories from my physics classes in explains by maps and animated nique tried out on the Weodrow are as follows: When you purchase school, the expert knowledge of a diagrams our tremendous problems Wilson film. your ticket of admission to the Madame Curie was quite out of my of logistics—production line to bat Inside Glamour. Interviewers ap Valentine theatre, ask the cashier sphere. It takes years for a real tle line transmission—and .suggests praise Hollywood’s great for some for the entry coupons which will scientist to perfect his technique, how long and costly the war can thing fiiore than looks or genius. entitle you to have a FREE photo I discovered. I had to master it m be. Ann Sheridan and Bob Hope won taken of your child by the Lee a few months. Labor Wanted It the golden apples for 1943 as the Righter Studios, 335 St. Clair St. most cooperative stars the Holly Became Bunson Vet War Department Repmi 1S a re These photos will be placed on “So Dr. R, M. Langer, physicist wood Women’s Press Club know. display in the grand lobby of the sult of a War Department confer Voted least cooperative: Joan Fon of the California Institute of Tech ence in September when labor and theatre. nology, was brought on the set as taine and Errol Flynn. industry leaders said the rank and Kremlin Gremlins. Leon Schles All patrons purchasing tickets technical director; thanks to him Join heavenly Hedy and romantic Jimmy in the exciting story of to the theatre will be given the file should be given the facts that inger, who makes Warner cartoons, I became a veteran with test tubes a beauty who had 24 hours to get married . . . and wanted to remain had just been placed before them. opportunity to vote for their fa and Bunson burners before the pic an unkissed bride! Hedy Lamarr and James Stewart in return re is trying a Russian theme. His vorite child. Movies are normally no affair of Russian Rhapsody has "gremlins ture was completed.” quest engagement of MGM “Come Live With Me.” the radio industry. But it is note Contestants must be between the £ Discussing her climb to success from the Kremlin” who give Hitler ages of one and 8 years. All worthy that the Natl. Assn, of a workout. on the screen, since her arrival Life of a Director Bioadcasters is urging every radio photos of the contestants will be here from England in 1939, the Top Disney Too. Walt Disney has also station in the country to arrange discovered Russia. He has put out / the '^turned to the parents after Jan. actress said she frequently has tp a n eI| the close of the contest ★ ★ ★ local showings of War Department a Russian version of Der Fuehrer's ^Sr,Unners to Be Announced pinch herself to discover whether Report as a public service. Face, and is having Russian lyrics it is really she to whom these Cin V?* JV- \inners of the contest will be Compiled by Burny Zawodny Invasion Preview. The most real and narration prepared for Bambi derella episodes have happened. istic war scenes yet given the pub Snow White and Saludos Amigos Ah “nunced by the TOLEDO UN- “I came so close to having the ★ ★ ★ X JOURNAL. The management screen pass me up altogether,” she Wesley Ruggles, a Keystone cop who made good in a big way, is Meatless Day for Mickey ill also notify the winners. Those declared, "that I shall never feel a champion of the stagger system, both behind studio gates and in his wishing to enter their children in entirely complacent about my own Malibu Beach bailiwick. The quiet-mannered, Los Angeies-born the contest are urged by the Val place in the Hollywood sun, r.o director, whose newest film is “See Here, Private Hargrove,” is a i, •—widL- A matter how bright the future may entine management to get their strong advocate of the principle of crop rotation. He applies it both at photographs in early. If parents or i,W m seem.” home and at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios; [ w others already have a photo of Did Research Work When he has finished a new comedy, Mr. Ruggles institutes an their children or those they wish w- J.'--? It was, relatively, only a few intensive search for a drama, the sterner its fiber the better; comple to enter in the contest, they may years ago that Miss Garson was tion of a heavily weighted dramatic yarn, on the other hand, sends him enter the photos without having 1 doing market research for a Lon scurrying about, on the rebound, for something light and brittle. After another’ taken. don advertising agency. While she doing a “Roar of the Dragon” he is almost certain to pop up with a h ■ f x Entry coupons are now ready I -4^ dreamed of becoming an actress “Bolero,” and a “Monkey’s Paw” will inevitably be lodged on his and may be obtained at Loew’s KOI some day, she never thought it chronological calendar next a “College Humor’ or a “Shoot the Works.” Valentine theatre or at UNION would happen so soon. The obvious question to put to such an inveterate shot-mixer is JOURNAL office. "My prospects were so remote the one about the relative diffi L $ J Ten Thousand at that time,” she said, “they were culty of directing a comedy and a Walker—Sailor Purckett of “Ba fantastic. While I had the burning drama. Mr. Ruggles, who can bal taan”—is the most versatile up- A ‘ desire to go on the stage, I was ance every “Cimarron” or “Ari and-coming leading man in Holly Questions realist enough to know that many zona” on lus slate with an “I Met © Rarely does * studio research wood. other girls were consumed by the Him in Paris” or a “Too Many Last winter, after directing a department receive the' credit it same fierce ambition. How was I, Husbands,” is very sure of the an light comedy, “Slightly Danger has coming. Its scholarly workmen I asked myself, without theatrical swer. Comedy is harder, but often ous,” starring Lana Turner, Mr. labor long and patiently in almost background, experience, money or a lot more fun. A comedy job, he Ruggles hungrily rushed out, wish- influence to achieve my goal? complete obscurity. No one ever Margaret O’Brien, talented child star of “Lost Angel.” eoming feels, is an especially chameleon- ing to sink his teeth in a gory expresses the slightest surprise or “I did have the advantage of an ish and jittery assignment when drama. None being available at the soon to the Valentine Theatre, is the inspiration for the child photo excellent education, however. I had admiration when an erudite re contest sponsored jointly by the Valentine and the TOLEDO UNION vagaries of weather, illness and moment, he let loose his urge for search expert almost instantly graduated with honors from the set economy make it necessary to JOURNAL. University of London and the Uni violence upon himself, and per provides an answer to Hie most juggle around sequences of a story mitted himself to be sped east to .O obscure question with all the as versity of Grenoble in France. The and shoot much of it in reverse the Johns Hopkins Medical Center Az advertising agency job which surance of an Information Please At The Aye of 21 Rest News of order, getting the cast to huff like for a razzle-dazzle ten-day over sage or a Quiz Kid prodigy. That opened soon after I returned to Mr. Disney’s wolf and do the cre hauling. The doctors, on conclusion That Rooney Boy, first name Mickey, aaya there’s something ’ is merely expected of him. Until Dolores Moran’s 21, she*! London from France gave me a scendo comedy climaxes the first b This W eek chance to pay some of my debts of the melee, told him there was fishy about meatless days Mickey does .-ome cuttin" »”» •• m- Research is a first step in the sworn off night clubs,* substitute: or second day on the^set. nothing wrong except a pronounc making of any motion picture, im Bette Davis, . thinner, quieter, and proved interesting as a brief ing of “Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble.” Never a dull moment. \ studying and canteening. Was Last Scenes First ed caso of Hollywood nerves, mediately it is definitely planned but obviously enjoying her work, interlude in the field of business. “See Here, Private Hargrove,” electrified at Garfield’s card tricks which he would have to cure on his there a bit too long and he was buttonhole you the first two min for production, usually many has told everyone in the studio adaptation of the best seller of the own. Mr. Ruggles’ self-pronounced months before’ a camera turns. A conjured up for his new role. eager to play truant more fre utes and fire away with a galling how delighted she is that Claude I psy Daisy! same name, is a case in point. prescription, since his return, has studio has some thirty-five depart Many of the closing scenes of “See quently in future. gun until you’ve made an appoint ments. The research worker as- Rains was given the role of Mr. he spends amid his peas, beans “It’s fun to wear a hat again,” ment about a story or an acting Here, Private Hargrove” were shot been to double the amount of time signed to a film must be prepared Skeffington. Paul Henreid was first, because of many absentees, he explained. “In New York I wore part. The only way to escape Hol ) far in advance to furnish detailed set designers to mention a few and begonias. one for the first time in five years. lywood i* to find a gin-rummy Thousands of questions will bf originally set, but refused to do it the first scenes during thee final information to the producer, the because he felt that he wasn’t week of production. Mr. Ruggles, Climate Too Dull It does you good once in a while partner and a remote corner im asked. The replies must be com mediately on arrival at your host’* director, the stars, the costume de right for the part. Finally the part who relinquished his thespian am After his New York visit, Rug to spruce up and to go to a party, signer*. the property men and the prehensive and factual. or a club where somebody doesn’t house, and stick there.” came back to Rains, who was on bitions to his brother Charles and gles unburdened himself of a mild his Keystone nightstick to Mack bit of heresy by admitting that the the Warner , lot under contract, a Sennett, to nourish his directorial languor and monotony of the Los FREE! FREE! fact that Bette had pointed out re hopes in the early ’20’s, came away Angeles climate were beginning peatedly. from “Private Hargrove” with an occasionally to disturb him. As a FIRST unswerving conviction that Robert native son, he felt he had been MOVIES EVERY THURSDAY Gowned in one of the frilly dresses of the period, Bette was chatting with a set visitor between LOEWS takes. Something about a maga 2nd Si zine article entered the conversa New Valentine il tion, and Bette said naturally, Big Week! St. Clair at Adams | ■ OF||94« Local w. “Farney was such a lot of fun F ■ ■s when I was working on that. He 12 & J and the writer and I spefit a lot of K Ganswav time together. He kidded the life & ' I out of both of us.” Her tone was T re got a date to keep! | entirely natural. Once again, as she has before, Bette appears to have accepted a major event of at Theater £ her life with a courage which has Sunny haired Jane Hale ia 3 SI 75.00 LX PHIZES 1 extracted the sweetness from I < __ _ ♦•vis? memory and left all bitterness to wearing the Can-Can costume in which she made her screen debut First Prize. . ¥100.00 W ar Bond those of smaller heart and nar- Second Prize 50.00 War Bond rower vision. in ‘‘Broadway Rhythm.” Jane 425 Winthrop Beginning at 8:00 P. M. was a dancer at the age of six, Third Prize . 25.00 War Bond retired for school, became as sistant dance director at MGM, t rooSo r This contest was inspired by that | Konturky then the movie cameras spotted adorable M-G-M Child Star, Mar her. O skevw-^ i garet O’Brien, who appears in j K.I “Lost Angel,” beginning Wednes j Visit The New vM day Midnight, Jan. 12th. a full Lent*RaW I | Kasa Blanca Supply Company SMITHS j Room ' Cartoon— Bu«‘n Comics | Tolnlo's Newett ‘ and 18 minutes | and tin ent Homn -. - jMiiMawMiiiiiaiMMilr _ 5 tO % I * . ia § Conte Enrlft and <0 V “V(at Mews” | blay Luts • e\ » ’ 'ifi