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Highland Park Press, 21 Aug 1941, p. 2

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> W »2Kt, > / y ' % 4 w par i Mz . s h & thoug with ex from i Europe Ottenheimer‘s no name for a girl who wants to be an actress and a modelâ€"so Miss Otâ€" tenheimer became Dana Dale when she acted and modâ€" * eled in New York. ; But Dana Dale "% was no name for a movie actress, esâ€" specially at Paraâ€" # MB mount, where Virâ€" P ginia was the reignâ€" y / i ing Dale. Soâ€"Dana =»8 Dale became Marâ€" Margaret garet Hayes, did a Hayes Western, then "New York _ Town"â€"and jumped into the second feminine lead in "Sulltvan‘s Travels," the new Preston Sturges picture which stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. She changed her personality along with her name. . the Ma quests . marki power, and shc over each of th George J. Schaefer, president of RKO Radio, has announced the result of m poll of theater audiences made by the Audience Research Institute and sponsored by his company. For a year audiences throughout the country were questioned, and it was found that stars who make three pictures a year gain 9 per cent in marquee value; those who make ene a year average a 17 per cent loss, twoâ€"picture stars lose 11 per cent. It should be a warning to those who limit their screen appearâ€" ances to avoid paying the higher surtaxes of the upper income brackets. Pretty Mary Paxton has joined NBC‘s Tuesday night ‘‘Hap Hazard" program, which stars her brand new tulb-ndâ€"- i which brings up the waie." fact that, unlike the e radio thrives on <z» husband and wife MR combinations. ‘The / 4 Benny‘s, Burns and |j A Allen, Fibber Mcâ€" (%% Gee and Molly, Sanâ€" e derson and Crumit, Block and Sully, h‘ xton Jeannette Nolan Mary and John Mcintyre of ‘"Meet Mr. Meek"â€"radio‘s roster is full of them. The U. S. S. North Carolina, newly commissioned 35,000 ton battleship now stationed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is the latest navy ship to acâ€" quire a Walt Disney drawing as its official emblem. It shows a “‘g tasia" pegasus in fighting a posed against a bolt of lightning. As one who longed for a drawing of one of those little winged horses, the writer extends congratulations to the officers and crew of the North Carolina. To make sure that Spencer Tracy‘s appearance as the villainâ€" ous "Hyde" of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was a surprise to us all, Tracy worked on a barred sound stage, and no still photographs were made of him in the role. Even scraps of film from the cutting room were destroyed. Lana Turner and Ingrid Bergman share honors with him, Miss Bergman playing "Ivy," the tough little barroom singer. Paramount is asking 1,000 chamâ€" bers of commerce if there is in their locality a deep, narrow, rugged gorge with a few small pine trees and a vast, rugged territory beyond. Water in the gorge and a bridge over it are desirable, but not neeâ€" essary. You see, the search is on for a setting for "For Whom the Bell Tolls" == shooting begins in October. "Birth of the Blues" that they‘ U ap wdhhwm...g Ameche Oflial-fl! Rosalind Russell how to him for a scene im %P-d-dhf:hf...% b~'l‘ll Take Manilla." Simone Simoneâ€"remember her?â€" returns to the screen in RKO‘s reâ€" cently completed ‘‘Here Is a Man," after m threeâ€"year absence.. Her second assignment is the feminine lead in "Call Out the Marines," in which she will appear opposite Tim Holt. B LE ':bopdCud-b' bce-aa.fil--n' qa.a-a'cms--;:- 'd’ a comeâ€"backâ€"she ..-uzm...n-e..-'. "Our Gan#" comedy will show Amer ican youngsters how to help in nation dfl’-...u.yn:fluu. Crosby eamed so successfully in STRCEâ€"SCREEN.â€"RADiO f By VIRGIN Released by Western ODDS AND ENDSâ€"Air Marshal ) latest film, entitled ceâ€"by Adolf Hitler," ch of Time presents itâ€"filling review of reâ€" story. _ Documented ‘lusive pictures taken side Naziâ€"dominated it traces the conâ€" arking Hitler‘s rise to d shows how, after taking of the 14 conquered counâ€" declared Germany‘s terriâ€" VIRGINIA VALE Western Newspaper Union.) #6 k es 3 ,,__,'m‘?&-. i ’;"af‘gfi?’ Mary,Paxton Villa Crowds Like Blonde Winnie, Darlings Winnie Hoveler‘s Dancing M“ lings‘ who opened at Vills Moderne Saturday, Aug. 9, have marked the third, and ultimate phase in their successful realization of every chorâ€" eographer‘s dream. First, as a chorus line at Harry‘s New Yorker, they were held over for three consecutive years. Then N. Â¥.‘s famous Hurricane club on Times Square presented them to Broadway as a specialty season At Top of Profession Altho still only 28, the blonde and lovely Winnie Hoveler is already at the very top of her proffesion. But she may soon run out of "New worlds to conquer", for she is alâ€" ready recognized as a successful dancer â€" director â€" producer â€" diver â€" gerialist â€" equestrienne â€" choreoâ€" grapher â€" designer â€" and stock comâ€" pany actress. . _ <a GSO Girls To Entertain Fifty Soldiers at "Y" Sat. There will be a dance for fifty men at the Y.W,C.A., 674 Laurel avenue, Highland Park, this Saturâ€" day evening at 8:30 o‘clock. The men are requested to get their ticâ€" kets at the Highland Park Service Men‘s club. G.S.0. girls will be on hand. Charles Leudeman wil be masâ€" ter of ceremonies. T he girls will wear formal dresses. 7iln.thth-.h7flh Moderne as the solo feature of the There will also be a weiner roast at Mrs, Lawrence Stein‘s beach Satâ€" urday night at 8:30. Twenty young ladies will also attend this affair. On Sunday, August 24, the Y.W.â€" C.A. will take over the program at the club. They promise plenty of eats, plenty of girls, and a good time from 2:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. Dance In Waukegan There will be a dance at the Wauâ€" kegan Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. for men of the casual detachment on Wednesday evening, August 27. O.*M. Grdss, secretary of the Armyâ€" Navy "Y" at Waukegan, reports that 50 girls from the Shore Cadet corps will act as dancing partners for the soldiers. Sign up with the senior hostess at the Fort Sheridan Service club for this party. Frank Hutchins has engaged Don Orlando‘s Latinâ€"American orchestra to play the South American, (and North American) tunes for Winnie Hoveler‘s Dancing Darlings and for her aerial ballet in "A Night at the Cireus," which will be the feature attraction at Vills Moderne‘s outâ€" door garden. Last Friday night, Mrs. Hope Calâ€" kins, Mrs. Roy Nereim, and Mrs. Harry A. Sellery took 16 soldiers to the Lake Zurich Play House. The visit included a personal introducâ€" tion to Mary Aurelius and stars of the cast. During maneuvers, the commitâ€" tees of women and girls and enterâ€" tainers of the Service Men‘s club desire to invite the various organiâ€" zations of the Fort to functions in Highland Park such as dances, weiâ€" ner roasts, parties, entertainments, and home hospitality. Any men reâ€" maining on the post should contact Nick Young at the club during this time. To those who go on maneuvers, the Highland Park Service Men‘s club, the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. board of directors, the Jewish Welâ€" fare board, the Salvation Army, the Y.W.C.A., the Travelers‘ Aid, and the N.C.C.S. wish a pleasant trip. Chicago Squadron To Select Own Insignia Within a day or two after Chiâ€" cago‘s Own Squadron goes into training at the United States naval aviation base at Glenview, IIl. Sept. 80, it will select an insignia for its organization designed by one of several hunrded public school pupils and art students in the Chicago area. This was assured today when Lieut. Carl G. Olson of the Naval Flight Selection board announced that of the several hundred insignias submitted in the Chicagoland conâ€" test sponsored by the Warren V. Woody committee of former World war naval aviators, the judges have chosen five entries from which the members of Chicago‘s Own Squadâ€" ron will select their official insignia. Otis Beeman, 742 N. Grove Ave., Oak Park, chairman of the Woody subcommittee which conducted the contest, and Lieutenant Olson deâ€" clared that in the opinion of the judges any one of the five entries would be an excellent insignia for a navy flying squadron. ‘ Attending the ceremony at which the winner will be "enrolled" in Chicago‘s Own Squadron will be all the officers and cadets of the Glenâ€" view base, Chairman Woody of the committee which organized Chicaâ€" go‘s Own Squadron and is now orâ€" ganizing the second mfimmm hawk Squadron, and members of the Naval Flight : Selection board of which Lieut Commander G. B. MmMOVIES AND AMUSEMENTS Fifth Division of Custer To Kansas; 800 Mile Hike The insignia selected by Chicaâ€" go‘s Own Squadron will be painted on the fuselage of its training planes both at Glenview and at whatever Annapolis of the Air base in the South it is assigned to for udvanced flight instruction. Pine Bluff, Arksnsas, to join other units of the second army for trainâ€" ing preparatory to the maneuvers in Louisiana during September. The 5th division left Fort Custer Monday morning, Aug. 13, on the first leg of an 800â€"mile march to The division, upon its arrival in Arkansas August 25, will particiâ€" pate in training activities of the second army for two weeks and then move third army in the Sabine River region in the greatest peaceâ€" time maneuvers over held in the United States. The maneuvers will end Septemâ€" ber 30 and the division will return to Fort Custer early in October. The march to Arkansas will reâ€" semble that to Tennessee in some respects, the division moving in two roughly equal columns along apâ€" prozimately paralle! routes, As laid out by officers of the division genâ€" eral staff, the march will require seven days and will be partly shuttle and partly an allâ€"motor movement. The southwestern route will cover six states. Fifteen permits have been issued during the first three weeks of August by the building department. Six of the permits were for new homes, Following are the permits issued : William Burkhardt, 2455 Edgeâ€" wood avenue, dwelling, $13,000; Walter E. Heller, 2425 N. Ridge road, storage shed, $2,000; Marion K. West, 381 Elm place, alterations, $300; Raymond M. Hayes, 316 Roger Williams avenue, porch alterâ€" ation, $500; H. Lanzl, 835 S. Linden avenue, alterations, $200; Homer C. Blakeslee, 597 W. Park avenue, dwelling, $6,500; John A. Swanson, 1810 Deerfield road, dwelling, $5,000 Bldz..Dept.hunclSl’miu During 1st 3 Weeks in Aug. Eugene Singer, 536 Central avâ€" enue, interior alterations, $240; David Stupey, 1215 Livingston avâ€" enue, alterations, $200; David Joseph, 2295 Lakeside place, dwellâ€" ing, $12,190; Hilmer Swanson, 851 Berkley road, porch, $75; Harriette Noreross, 1821 Rice street, porch, $275; James B. Jones, 1710 Greenâ€" wood avenue, private garage, $100. Lawrence Herman, 523 8. Sheriâ€" dan road, dwelling, $12,800; Mrs. Mildred R. Riddle, 1412 Moorland drive, dwelling, $7,500. Twentyâ€"two new homes have been built in Deerfleld from Jan. 1, 1941, to Aug. 1, 1941, which exâ€" ceeds the 1940 record when 19 homes was the total for the year. The total cost of homes so far this year is $154,502, with an addiâ€" tional $8,130 for remodeling and private garages and $100 for a grease pit in a filling station, makâ€" ing a total of $162,732 for buildâ€" ing this year. Homes Since Jan. 1 Deerfield Builds 22 New After 4 p. m. After 4 p. m., Sundays Atrer t o mo Soir S1AB Shore‘s finest daily fee course AVAILABLE FOR WEEK DAY TOURNAMENTS &“Wum“ Cfiom"!'"_@“ BRIERG A TE COUNTRY CLUB GSELL‘S Highland Park â€" Ravinia SPECIAL DRUG STORES GQOLF! 4 y, Sept. Thursda nlon Boys and girls of Fort Sheridan, Highwood and Highland Park who live in school district No. 11 will return to classes at the Oak Terâ€" race sehool on Thursday morning, September 4. The teachers of the school will return on Tuesday for a series of meetings and to prepare textbooks ready to issue to pupils on Thursday. Several new teachers will be on the teaching staff this year due to the resignation of Miss Thompson, ::il:h'(}rnt.lhhfly-dlr. District 11 The fental plan for textbooks which has proven so successful will be used agiin this year. New books will be furnished in English for all grades, in the social studies in fifth and sixth grades and in readâ€" ing for the primary grades. Registration Compulsory Wayne Thomas, principal of the school, will be in the office every morning until the opening of school to register those children who live in the district but have never atâ€" tended Oak Terrace school. Children entering kindergarten must be five years old by February 1, 1942, and those entering first grade must be six by the same date. Birth certifiâ€" cutes must be presented at the time of registration in these grades. The school building has been cleaned and painted and new shades and drapes have been bought for the windows. Officer Candidate School Program Widened by Army The present program of Officer Candidate schools will be expanded to provide opportunity for one in each 100 soldiers to receive a comâ€" mh-ion.itmlmmdhdnyby the war department. Under the new plan, the annual program will be increased from 10,400 to 14,280 men. Candidates become eligible after six months of GLENCOE Highland Park 605 630 Vernon Ave. _ Glencoe 605 Wilmerte and Winnetka 3900 Free Parkingâ€"Hearing Aids "ONE NIGHT IN LISBON® Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray Open Mon., Thru Fri., at 6:00 Sat., Sun. and Holidays at 1:30 Thurs., Fri., Sat., Aug. 21â€"22â€"33 "WEST POINT WIDOW" Thurs., Pri., Sat., Aug. 28â€"29â€"30 Damen Runyon‘s Comedy Hit "THE NURSE‘S SECRET" * THEATRE * _ ‘Aug. 24â€"25â€"26â€"27 _ Gary Cooper in Frank Capra‘s Saturday Matinee Only ""Adventures of Capt. 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An additional $07, or 31 per cent, of each 1,000 men, may reach the grade of private first class with an increase in pay. Only 417 remain in the grade of privaté, although 331, or 45 per cent, of the 724 privates and privâ€" ates first class gain specialists‘ ratâ€" ings which carry increase in pay. Playing their third night game in six days, the Seguinâ€"Logan kittenâ€" bull squad finally registered a vicâ€" tory at Sunset park by a "too close for comfort" 2 run margin. The opâ€" position was provided by the Highâ€" wood A. C. ten before a crowd of about 400 fans. -T'I’::i .T’" hools Available To 58 Per Cont Advancement during the first training will be available to ghtly more than 58 per cent of | trainees. On the basis of 14280 The contest was abbreviated to A sequel that surpasses its mighty predecessor, ADDED: -_?mao:“-. ""Crackpot â€" Quail TELEPHONE H. 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