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Show UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, THE COUNTY RICH u WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS REAPEF second class matter Feb. 8. 1928 Cntered Act of March 3. 187V. at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, under th Wm. E. Marshall, llutiness Manager 11.50 Per Year in Advance SUBSCRIPTION I, ay tun Marshall, Editor and Proprietor First Phase of Invasion Ended As Initial Foothold is Secured; French Hail " Liberation Troops" HOLLYWOOD Released by Western Newspaper Union ssisssr D OKING FUN at our hats is even superseding the mother-in-lajokes these days, but, masculine scoffing to the contrary, to women hats are the staff of life. Youll see Im rot the only zany female in Hollywood. Ask Irene Dunne. She owes her career to a hat. If it hadnt been for a big one in z pale blue, Flor-en1 d Z iegf e would never have noticed her; shed never have won in the lead 1 w .v.v.y.y. r.-- f . . i vsvaw ... V.WAV.V'JSS-- AS WA I ? ' Jr ; K , ,si j Show Boat; Hollywood would have missed her; and but for a hat the cinema capital would have kept her in musicals instead of her the giving plum role of Sabra in Cimarron, a picture which changed the entire course of her life. .' hat. The hat was large, of silky straw, a pale blue affair with long stream- ers and extravagantly painted flowers under the brim. I truly believe that from the day I wore it I subsing-CompT- Her Way year later, after hard study, she singing the lead in the road w of the musical comedy Irene Ta salary of $150 a week. i Back in New York, Henry W. Sav-t- e gave her a chance to under-ud- y Peggy Wood in The Clinging ne. When Peggys father died ne stepped into the lead for a gle Broadway performance ! It enough to win her a chance at tmmer of light opera sponsored he Chandlers in Atlanta, Ga., a lar stint in St. Louis, and the in The City Chap for the which followed was by ghams, tad in Sweetheart Time. s called for a new hat and a j at the New York Biltmore. A age gentleman noticed the hat t, and requested an introduction. Three years later she married Dr. rancis Griffin the same gentleman. The bridal couple boarded the Berengaria and sailed for a European honeymoon. The day after I returned home wearing a beautiful new blue hat purchased in Paris, recounts Miss was the day I met Flo Dunne, Ziegfeld in an elevator. Before I left the building he sent for the girl in the blue hat! A Dream Come True Because of that hat, Edna Fer bers glorious Show Boat was Irenes for the asking. The opening night of Show Boat marked the starting of a rich and varied career for the pretty girl with a voice and pretty hats. When the search for the heroine of Cimarron began, Irene inveigled a test and there was an astounded gasp from producers. Sabra, a straight dramatic role, the emotional plum of the year, to a musical comedy actress? Nonsense! Nonsense or not, she wanted it, and got it thanks to a hat which she borrowed from a wig designer Trail Blazer started an entirely new cycle. Magnificent Obsession, Back Street, Symphony of Six The Secret of Madame Million, The Silver Cord, Blanche, and so on. Then Irene had a hunch it was time to try comedy. She accepted the harum-scarugirl of Theodora Goes Wild. The Awful Truth followed, and she found herself hailed as a comedienne. Critics are again pointing with pride to her as an emotional actress for such romantic roles as the girl of A Guy Named Joe, opposite Spencer Tracy, and that veritable cavalcade of a womans m White Cliffs ' THE INVASION: First Phase Ended LIBERATED BAYEUX: First of Many The first phase of the Allied invasion of Europe was completed. To a tense world, supreme head- Eyewitness accounts described great joy in the streets of Bayeux, France, first city to be liberated by Allied troops in the invasion of western Europe. On the main rail line linking the big port of Cherbourg to Paris, Bayeux is five miles inland from Seine Bay. God save the King. Weve waited for this day. On to .Paris. Vive Tommy. Vive Amerique. These were some of the rejoicing cries that greeted the first detachments to march through the narrow streets of the Normandy town. Cheering men and women danced through the same streets as the troops came in Cafe owners began throwing open their doors with pianists striking up patriotic tunes to add to the festivity of that first day. Europe is to have many towns cleared of the enemy in the weeks to come but Bayeux got its niche in the history books when the French above it again Tricolor on the second day of the Allied landings in France. quarters of the allied expeditionary forces announced this phase as the securing of a foothold and the defeating of local German reserves. h resistAgainst fierce, ance of 10 hastily massed Nazi divisions, totaling nearly 150,000 men, allied forces were plunging inland on a front of curving shoreline from the Seine Estuary near Le Havre to the Cherbourg area. Allied forces are now in the second phase, which is one of defeating tactical reserves, the German said headquarters. The third phase, which must be won before the Allied position is completely secure, is that of defeating the German strategic reserves. last-ditc- consciously decided that I might utahiiy earn my living by hat did it, says Irene, rhaps she was thinking of that hen she won a voice contest at hicago Musical college, and so nbition which had lain dormant childhood crystallized into a ne aim to become a singer. The S This first picture made from French soil shows American doughboys, rifles ready, wading through the surf onto the French beachhead. The photographer who made the picture was in the first group to hit the beach. Note the invasion craft in the background. Soundphoto. earned her first money singing hymns in the Indianapolis Baptist church choir hymns taught her by the nuns at the Loretto convent in St. Louis. Her reward was a crisp new $10 bill, and just enough to purchase her hearts desire a new lifetime, A base within bombing range of the Philippines fell to General forces when the Mokmer airdrome on Biak Island was stormed and captured on the 13th day of the invasion of the Schoutens. The beachhead on Biak was established late in May. A frontal stab was repulsed, following which American forces got in behind enemy positions and swept to the air field from the rear. The Mokmer field is within 880 miles of the Philippines to the northwest and is within good fighter range of Palau, Japanese western Carolines naval base guarding the approaches of the Philippines. The island also has two other airfields desired by the Sixth army invaders. The Americans immediately began a push toward the Borokoe airdrome a few hundred yards to the west. Mac-Arthu- rs J By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. full years have passed actor Douglas Walton, called up for army service, worked all one night to finish a picture assignment at RKO. Early the next morning, with no time in which to change from his costume, he TWO reported for fluty in white tie and tails. Now hes back Lieut. Douglas Walton, medically discharged and reporting at RKO to play the man who gets his in the Dick Powell-Ann-e Shirley thriller, FareAnd on his first well, My Lovely. his costume the before camera, day was white tie and tails 1 INDUSTRY: Must Take Initiative How It Started Shell never forget the day she Cimarron AIRFIELD: Near Philippines of Dover." Irene Dunne, accompanied by Dr. Griffin, went east for the premiere of the latter picture. Shes back home now, ready for either drama, comedy, musical, or romance. 100-mi- le (Tactical reserves are those in or near the combat area; strategic reserves are those held in readiness at a distance.) The Air Umbrella' Headquarters 27,000 individual After giving Linda Darnell the biggest break of her career in SumWarning that industry must find mer Storm, then realizing, while ifs own work when war contracts critics raved, that they had no furare no longer available, Donald Nelon her services, Angelus claim ther son, chairman of the War Producis Pictures taking no more chances. tion board, told the house postwar Theyve signed up Dona Drake with committee, that: a contract calling for a starring role . . . it wont be the governments a year for four years. Donas been job to find work for each company around the Paramount lot for some in its present expanded position. Its impossible to find a postwar market yaw for the 8,900 airplanes we now produce monthly. Stating that he was 100 per cent in favoring governments assistance in postwar planning for industry, he said that he was against government running small business. He urged that companies now engaged in war production use their own ingenuity and initiative in planning their postwar programs. He forecast a postwar expansionist period in which private .enterprise rather than the government would provide the necessary Government pump primspark. ing would be at a minimum under such conditions. LINDA DARNELL 'j time without ever getting a good break, so finally she won cancellation of her contract so that she could take advantage of the Angelus offer. Douglas Sirk, director of Summer Storm, made a special test of Dona, and it was on his recommendation, because he thinks shes potentially a dramatic stA, that she got the contract. was-hoiste- announced that air missions were carried out in the two and one-ha- lf days following the dawn of Great air fleets, probably greater than those of hammered Nazi strong points, transport and troop concentrations within a radius of the beachheads. Nazi fighter opposition was weak. The German high command had not yet thrown its fighter reserves into the battle for Normandy. The battle was joined around Bayeux, first city of France to be freed from Germans, and Caen. A fierce tank battle raged in several wooded areas near Bayeux, where the Nazis were strengthened by parachute troops. The navy supported foot troops with a gigantic bombardment of Caen. Nazi forces were attempting to hold thd city as a pivot for counterattacks. But on the second day of invasion, the Germans were forced to admit street fighting already was being waged inside Caen. SHUTTLE-BOMBIN- VI is Norman Price, tenor of the Mother and Dad quartet, chose music as a career not too many years ago, but it was a toss-u- p whether hed sing or earn a living as a professional swimmer or a baseball player. Norman was a star athlete in his home state of Arkansas; he hails from Berry ville. Polly Robertson, organist and arranger for the quartet, is another Southerner, from Kentucky. G: D-da- y. D-da- y, 150-mi- le Russian Bases Used News dispatches began carrying a new dateline that read From U. S. Air Base Somewhere in Russia and this spelled historic military significance in cooperation be- tween the . United States and the Soviet Union. For the first time, U. S. planes had taken off from jases in Italy, bombed German targets, and continued flying eastward to land at secret U. S. air bases set up on Russian soil. This new program opened the farthest corners of German territory to bombing attack by Allied planes based in Britain, Italy, North Africa and Russia. American military leaders had long wanted these Russian bases but it took diplomatic skill of the first caliber to get the Russians to agree to the strategy. They were finally convinced when it became obvious that the U. S. and England had the necessary planes Single Front and the Russians did not. It became increasingly obvious First target was a Rumanian that Allied positions were fast befreight yard in which the Nazi ing welded together into a single had concentrated supplies for troops front, stretching from Caen through American Russians. the fighting Bayeux to just outside Carentan Flying Fortresses were accompaand some distance up the Cherbourg nied by Russian fighter planes on peninsula toward Valognes. of the mission. part It was disclosed that the first forces ashore on might have ITALY: pushed ahead more rapidly than Major Break9 in Lines they did, but General Eisenhowers The German high command in supreme command decided it was wiser to slow the advance someItaly was forced to admit a major what hile awaiting more ade- break through their lines north and quate strength rather than make a west of Rome as the Fifth army risk having the spearheads choked smashed toward Lake Bracchiano and Civitavecchia, key port of the off. Tyrrhenian sea. OBJECTIVE PARIS: German resistance was described the allied command as only by By Bastille Day? It amounted to little more light. Bastille day, French national holi- than activities by dedisorganized day, falls on July 14 and in the laying units and infantry first days of the invasion of western guns. Europe, veterans of the 1940 battle The Fifth army had taken more of France forecast that the Allies than 18,000 prisoners and many would be in Paris by that date to more thousands were captured by help the natives celebrate. the British Eighth army, which was In New York the French language heavier resistance northweekly, France-Ameriqcarried meeting west of Rome, where the hardest a column by Ernest R. Bauer, which is being encountered. indicated that French military vet- fighting erans familiar with the terrain over The Vatican which the battles are now being Whoever may be the military fought predict rapid progress from authorities actually having control the beachheads to Paris 120 miles of the city of Rome, the Vatican away. has announced its determination to Meanwhile in London Winston maintain a policy of ObChurchill urged the house of com- servers took this to neutrality. mean that the mons to guard against the idea holy see gave the Germans credii; that things are going to be settled for correct behaviour with regard in a rush. to Rome in its final hours. long-hoard- ed D-d- self-propell- ue - A German sentry pictured as he scanned the skies over Boulogne, France looking for trouble that came unexpectedly. Boulogne was one of the cities hit by sea and air bombings, paving the way for landing of Allied forces. FOOT SOLDIERS: Pay Increase Claude Rains, currently featured in Warner Bros. Mr. Skeffington, is expected starring Bette Davis, mid-Julfor y back from England by his next assignment under a longterm contract. He went to play opposite Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra. part of its twentieth anniverMetro has dug into celebration sary In reply to a request by War Sec- the files and come out with some retary Stimson, Chairman May of bits of interesting information. For the house military affairs commit- instance Glenn Martin, the plane tee introduced a bill to increase pay manufacturer, once was a movie of skilled infantry men $5 to $10 a actor. He played opposite Frances month. Marion, the ace film writer and exSoldiers holding the expert infan- ecutive. He was given the job betry mans badge would get a $5 in- cause no other leading man, could crease and these having the combat be found, in 1916, who owned an infantry mans badge, $10. Cost of airplane! X the increase would amount to beIn a poll of enlisted men embractween 55 and 71 million dollars year-lying the entire Southwest Pacific In asking for the legislation, Stim- area, conducted by the Overseas son said infantry casualties are the Motion Picture Service, Humphrey highest of any branch of service. In Bogart was voted the years No. 1 the North African campaign, includ- actor, as a result of his performance An Oscar, a ing Italy, the infantry suffered 70 in Casablanca. of facsimile cent of the the per Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel casualties, although comprising only 19.6 per cent of the of New Guinea, is being forwarded to him, as an expression of the total forces. . gratitude the men feel for all that FARM MACHINERY : he has done for them. As - . Restrictions Removed Small manufacturers (employing less than 100 workers) can now engage in the unlimited production of farm machinery, equipment, and repair parts made entirely from surplus materials or materials with an AA--4 preference rating. This new arrangement, announced by the War Production bot'rd, is limited to firms employing not more than 50 workers in group 1 labor areas, or on the West coast. Elsewhere plants employing fewer than 100 workers may participate. Manufacturers these meeting regulations can use surplus materials and component parts from inventories together with aA-- 4 preference rating materials m such n The theory that mystery stories are too exciting fare for children receives another knockout blow in results from interviews with youngsters having roles on MysAll report that nevtery Theater. er in their lives have they slept better than on the nights after they well-wor- have been in on a few choice murders in the NBC mystery thriller the more murders, the better. Sounds difficult, but' it worked The Little Bit of when writing Heaven, musical to.be produced by Metro, Capt. Luther Davis, with the army air corps in India, and Marine Capt. John Cleveland, stationed at Quantico, Va.,k collaborated by mail with Robert 'Andrews in Hollywood. |