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...Reader Gutterman's own biographical sketch in the Motion Picture Almanac notes: "Paramount publicity writer 1941-42. June 1942 appointed publicity director Warner Brothers Radio Division...
CRIME president Cliff F. Thompson stepped out of his room, his face blue with cold, and swore a great oath at the Farmers Almanac for predicting the coldest winter of the century, James R. Ilgenfritz, president of New England Storm and Screen windows, for making it come true, and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey for removing the only available heating system...
Travelogues are, as a rule, pretty dreary stuff, with an off-screen commentator reading a script copied out of the World Almanac. Only seldom does a travel short even try to show the "natives" as people rather than as models for picturesque costumes. But Songs of the Auvergne, made by Miles Morgan '50, not only tries but succeeds impressively...
...less conservative Old Farmer's Almanac agreed but emphasized the wet weather. The book's prediction for the coming month reads "heavy rains and bad floods...
Being a baroness was never enough to satisfy ambitious Daisy von Freyberg. At the age of 18 she took on a stage name, Daisy D'Ora, and became one of the more curvesome ornaments of Germany's silver screen. The international film Almanac of 1931 listed her as a "young lover" type, and that same year blonde Baroness Daisy earned still another title: Miss Germany. Sought after by the great and powerful in the twin worlds of Art and Fashion, Daisy in 1932 gave up her own career to marry a wealthy and successful young diplomat named Oskar...