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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. At Fort Devens, Mass., USO Actor Ray Rand, who played the role of a measles victim, found he had measles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...gory affair starring one female and two male bullfighters, played by a dark beauty, Gloria Marin, a boyish Mexican matinee idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador Ortiz steps into the bull ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mexican Movies | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Writer-Producer Alan Melville (now in the R.A.F.) and CBC's E. L. Bushnell conceived Front-Line Family early in 1941 under a table in a London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bltiz Family Robinson | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Taking up his turban in defiance, of the Boston "Herald" and cinema actor Sabu, Harish Mahindra '46, Weld Hall's representative from the Orient, yesterday showed that the Yard was the equal of Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turban-Twister Twines to Spite Serpentwining Sabu | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...Herald correspondent had claimed that the Indian was the only person in Boston capable of mastering the intricacies of winding a turban, so that it stays on. Mahindra, however, took up the challenge, declared that Sabu was a fake, and gave a demonstration of his own technique since the actor had refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turban-Twister Twines to Spite Serpentwining Sabu | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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