Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 28, 1941

Posted on April 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 28, 1941, Comics  

  April 28, 1941, Nazi Film  

April 28, 1941: Irvin S. Cobb fills in for Lee Shippey, who is still recovering from surgery.
 
Tom Treanor files a report from a press junket to Venezuela, saying that reporters are treating it as a vacation while the sponsors consider it serious business. The trip was organized by Standard Oil, the Grace Line and “various business interests," Treanor said.

That George Raft-Edward G. Robinson feud has become so venomous that their portable dressing rooms have now been moved to opposite sides of the stage, Jimmie Fidler says.

I can find no further information about “Dr. Koch,” the purported Nazi film that was banned from being shown at the Pacific Electric Theater,  627 S. Los Angeles St. It might be “Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes.”

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Jim Murray, April 28, 1961

Posted on April 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 28, 1961, Autry, Nixon  

  April 28, 1961, Jim Murray  

April 28, 1961: Jim Murray dips into the mailbag and finds letters from Frank Capra and George Kennedy, among others. Meredith Willson wants Murray to write a baseball comedy so he can use it for a musical!
 
ps. The Angels lost to the Twins, 4-2.

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President Kennedy Urges Self-Censorship for Newspapers

Posted on April 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 28, 1961, Comics  

  April 28, 1961, Censorship  

April 28, 1961: President Kennedy calls on the nation's newspapers to censor themselves in publishing information that could be useful to global communism in the cold war. 

"Communism, he said, is a 'monolithic and ruthless conspiracy' that is attacking us all around the world with cold war tactics conducted with wartime discipline.

"He recalled that enemy leaders have boasted that American newspapers had supplied them with valuable facts they could not have obtained elsewhere except by espionage." 

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San Francisco Clinic Cures ‘Bad Girls’

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 10, 1949, Bad Girls  

April 10, 1949: A San Francisco "promiscuity clinic" is working to treat "bad girls." No, really! After citing some terrifying statistics (68% of U.S. brides are not virgins!) Howard Whitman profiles the Psychiatric Service of the San Francisco City Clinic, which has "treated some 2,000 cases of promiscuity."

And while it has helped "many a young girl back to wholesome living," the clinic has made some amazing discoveries, including: "These girls don't enjoy sex." Got that, bad girls?

 

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 27, 1941

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 27, 1941, Nazis Batter at Gates of Greece  

  April 27, 1941, Comics  

April 27, 1941: Lee Shippey files  a column from his hospital bed!

OUR PARTY FOR VENEZUELA met in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center before sailing today. We could look out across the city at the spires which last year seemed as solid as rock cliffs, but now look fragile and brittle for bombs in the pearly, iridescent haze, touched today with sun and faintest color of the rainbow, Tom Treanor says. 
 
Few stars can wear an evening gown with such dazzling effect as Loretta Young, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Jim Murray, April 27, 1961

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 27, 1961, Angels  

  April 27, 1961, Jim Murray  

April 27, 1961: The Angels make their debut at a refurbished Wrigley Field against the Minnesota Twins. Jim Murray says: "You have to marvel that, at 1:30 this afternoon, they will bravely begin an extended run of 81 performances in the face of nearly unanimous critical opinion that they shouldn't bother and that they'll be playing only to ushers within a week."

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UC May Have to Charge Tuition – Someday

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

 

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  April 27, 1961, Eichmann  

April 27, 1961: The Senate Education Committee turns down a proposed tuition fee for University of California students but says one may have to be imposed — eventually.

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Found on EBay — Bullock’s Wilshire

Posted on April 26, 2011 by lmharnisch
Bullocks Collegienne bullocks_collegienne_shoes_ebay_label

This pair of shoes from the Collegienne department of Bullock’s Wilshire has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $9.99.
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 26, 1941

Posted on April 26, 2011 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Naval Patrol Extended by U.S.  

  April 26, 1941, Comics  

April 26, 1941: Harriet Grainger fills in for Lee Shippey, who is recovering from surgery.

BELLS TO: Fibber McGee and Molly, who, loyal to the radio sponsor they've had for years, nixed more lucrative offers from a rival concern, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Jim Murray, April 26, 1961

Posted on April 26, 2011 by lmharnisch

 

  April 26, 1961, Day in Ssports  

 

  April 26, 1961, Jim Murray  

April 26, 1961: Jim Murray writes about pitcher Jim Brosnan’s book “The Long Season,” calling it "The best book on baseball ever written and one of the best on any subject."

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Vacation Is Over

Posted on April 26, 2011 by lmharnisch

  Oct. 31, 1883, Plow  

Vacation is over, but it’s going to take me a few days to plow through everything that has accumulated since I left.  Have you missed Jim Murray? Me too!
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Found on EBay – Louis Adamic

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch
Louis Adamic Louis Adamic’s “The Word of Satan in the Bible” has been listed on EBay in a lot of 40 Little Blue Books published by E. Haldeman-Julius. This is an intriguing item from Adamic, best known for “Dynamite,” which is frequently cited for its account of the 1910 bombing of The Times.

Bidding on this lot starts at $23.99.
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LAPL Is Hiring!

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

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  Photograph by Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times  


The Los Angeles Public Library website says: “We are accepting applications for the positions of as-needed Librarians, Clerk Typists and Messenger Clerks.  Interviews will be conducted during the month of May 2011.”

Three cheers from the Daily Mirror!

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 25, 1941

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 25, 1941, Hull Asks War Cargo Protection  

  April 25, 1941, Comics  

April 25, 1941: Lee Shippey is still recovering from surgery, so his friends are filling in for him. Today’s column by novelist Harlan Ware is about what Hollywood success did to one writer.

No matter how gay the party, Edward Everett Horton can always find cause for worry, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 24, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: June 11, 1936 — Franchot Tone and Robert Greig in a comedy sequence in MGM's "The Unguarded Hour," directed by Sam Wood. Loretta Young plays the heroine in the Lawrence Weingarten production.]

Our mystery fellow has a mystery companion!
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 23, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Aug. 22, 1937 — Franchot Tone and Virginia Bruce caught in a tender moment of MGM's "Between Two Women." In the motion picture, Tone marries Miss Bruce, although in love with his nurse, Maureen O'Sullivan.]

Yes, I know these are easy. It’s vacation!
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 22, 2011, Mystery Photo

 
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Nov. 12, 1947: Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball in "Her Husband's Affairs.”]

And for Friday, another mystery companion!
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 21, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Updated: July 1, 1955 — Ida Lupino and Franchot Tone comprise the entire case of "Award," the powerful tale of a Hollywood actress who has to prove herself capable of sincere emotion before a Broadway director will hire her for a coveted stage role, to be presented on "Bristol-Myers Four Star Playhouse."] 

Here’s our mystery fellow with another mystery companion!
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 20, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: April 18, 1958– Eva Le Gallienne and Franchot Tone head a star-studded cast in Screen Gems' "Bitter Heritage" for CBS Television’s "Playhouse 90." Miss Le Gallienne makes her telefilm debut in the Joseph Landon teleplay.]

For Wednesday, our mystery guest has another mystery companion!
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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

  April 19, 2011 Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: May 1, 1958 — Expressions of principals testify to strain of hearing as Mrs. Jean Wallace Wilde, near tears, leaves court with actor husband Cornel Wilde after ex-husband Franchot Tone, on right, won permission for their son to attend a school in the East.]

For Tuesday, our mystery guest has two mystery companions!
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