Editorial: Good time was had by all
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Marine sergeant wins play award
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New film at Harris spins story of war marriage
Jean Arthur plays the wife in comedy; Bowman her G.I. Joe
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Defense may present case without calling socialite
Attorney says he’s confident prosecution has failed to prove murder charge
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The birth of a new France –
**French industry is at a standstill with immediate recovery unlikely
Electricity, gas and coal still lacking in Paris area
By Tom Wolf
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Simms: Paris Reds seek to cause French split with Allies
Communist paper in capital disregards U.S. help, plays up Russian role in war
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Planned economy program pledged by Gen. de Gaulle
French leader promises state control of all resources and condemns trusts
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
I’d like to have been at the White House the other day when Frank Sinatra had tea with President Roosevelt. They say Frankie really was proud.
Well, it isn’t everyone who can have tea with the President, and you can’t blame Frankie for wanting to throw out his chest. I’ll bet he never missed having one as much as he did that day.
I understand “The Voice” told the President how he makes the girls swoon. Of course, Mr. Roosevelt has a pretty exciting voice himself. At least the Republicans seem to get awfully excited when they hear his speeches.
Millett: Girls should choose own morals code, not be forced into organized goodness
‘Don’ts’ are worth less than nothing
By Ruth Millett
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Browns clinch All-St. Louis Series
Laabs’ two home runs beat Yankees while Nats subdue Tigers
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Billy was pulling for ‘em –
Southworth glad Browns won pennant but still expects tough battle to regain Series title
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Mike manners for candidates in book form
Broadcasters tell them how to talk
By Si Steinhauser
You’re going to hear some high-falutin’ political appeals from now on. The National Association of Broadcasters has just issued a book of instructions to candidates telling them how to talk on the radio, most impressive paragraph reminds candidates that people listen in their homes and that they are not addressing a convention where the “gang’s all here.” Simple, conversational language is recommended but throat-clearing isn’t.
Which will amuse anyone who has been around microphones. “Mikes don’t bite,” as a young lady titled a book about radio, but they have a way of taking a guy by the throat (by remote control) and choking him just about the time he is ready to take the air. His only way out is to clear his throat, and that is like saying to the listening audience, “Gee, I’m nervous, but I hope you’ll out up with me until I get this thing over with.” And no rule book will help the candidate. He’ll still be nervous.
In a convention hall, he knows everyone out front is his friend: even the guy who falls asleep and doesn’t hear a word he says is still for him. But the home folks have that little gadget called a “knob” which twists a dial when a candidate gets hard to listen to and “bingo” goes a house full of votes, the other way.
We still like the fellow who described radio as “a means of reaching so many without being reached.” That’s a lifesaver for a lot of candidates who can talk a lot but say nothing without being booed. And NAB books of directions won’t help, not even if the directions hanging on the microphone say, “Don’t shake before taking.”
Here’s a trip for candidates: Be yourself. If your throat gets dry, remember that the President once halted a broadcast and said, “Hand me that glass of water.”
Dick Powell’s radio earnings and part of his screen income launched the Powell Motor Scooter factory in California.
Christmas is coming department: Charles “Andy Brown” Correll has “just bought a 16mm movie film of Dickens’ Christmas Carol for his children.
Hey kids, Superman moves from 5:45 to 5:30 starting tonight.
Johnnie Johnston, Basin Street singer, is in the hospital and so is his appendix, but they’re not in the same room. The operator will cost him several thousand dollars in cancelled bookings.
Sunny Skylar wrote “A Little Bit South of North Carolina” with “hep yose’f” accent; then “Besame Mucho” which we’re told means “I Love You Very Much;” and now he is about to introduce a “Chinese Prayer” in song.
We’ll be glad when the election is over department: WCAE scheduled its customary Musical Parade at 10:15 tonight. MBS scheduled the acceptance speech of Darlington Hoopes, Reading Socialist candidate for the Vice Presidency, at 10:15. WCAE stuck to its Parade.
MBS scheduled a talk by Governor Warren of California for the GOP ticket at 10:15. WCAE changed its mind and detoured the Parade and promised you’d hear Governor Warren at 10:15. Now MBS has changed its mind and decided that Mr. Hoopes will go ahead and accept his nomination at 10:15 and Governor Warren will speak at 9:45. We give you their promises and if the schedules are wrong, WCAE’s phone number is Atlantic 6900.
The Democrats take up a new stunt tonight with five-minute broadcasts on the Blue Network at KQV. Senator Truman, running mate for the President, will speak over KQV from 9:55 to 10:00. And on Wednesday, DNC Chairman Robert Hannegan will speak from 9:25 to 9:30.
Edward G. Robinson stars in tonight’s Cavalcade of America version of the life of Tom Paine, if you remember your history lessons you’ll recall that Paine did some fiery writing in the days of the Revolution that produced swords and guns with which America was built.
Gladys Swarthout guests on tonight’s Telephone Tour.
Hedda Hopper launches her new quarter hour on WJAS at 7:15. Her program will be produced by Jack Meakin, remembered here as the husband of Patti Norman.
Robert Walker, Lorraine Day and Adolphe Menjou co-star in Shopworn Angel on tonight’s Screen Guild show.
Christopher Morely and “Esme of Paris,” ballerina, musician on five instruments, writer tumbler and newspaperwoman, born Esmeralda Consuelo Maria del Delgado de Holland sown in our native West Virginia (and there’s no Paris there) will join tonight’s Information, Please, “experts.”
Fritz Kreisler has chosen his program for his second broadcast on Monday, Oct. 9. He will play his own composition, “Schoen Rosmarin” and his arrangements of “Londonderry Air” and the first and second movements of Bruch’s “Concert No. 1 in G Minor.”
When Clark Gable returns to the business of acting, he will star on the Cavalcade of America as Cdr. Howard Gilmore, hero of “Take her down” fame who gave his life to save his crew.