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Model Wife (Universal). Year ago the American Mothers Society of New York decided that blonde, bumpy Joan Blondell was America's Most Glamorous Mother. This year they reaffirmed their decision, commissioned a sculptor to preserve Mother Blondell in bronze. This was Universal's cue to acquaint cinemagoers with the marital charms of their beglamored star...
...sports did not get a fair deal at the Varsity Club. The swimmers presented a strong protest bloc against the creamed chicken served, and one tennis man was annoyed by the fact that the ping pong paddles bad a rubber surface. A couple of fellows never could locate the cue chalk...
...Cue for Passion (by Edward Chodorov & H. S. Kraft, produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers). Advance notices hinted that this play was about Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. The hint can be disregarded. The drama begins as an acid study of the relations between a jaded, unsavory novelist (George Coulouris) and his wife, part journalist, part demon, played by sinister Gale Sondergaard, whose performances here and in the cinema (The Letter) mark her as the female viper of the dramatic year...
...Taking up the cue, The Bronx Zoo opened an exhibition of animal paintings by Joel Stolper, who for the past 15 years has been peering behind the bars of cages, writing and illustrating books on giraffes and other animals. Ex-Prize Fighter Stolper, who fought all over the U. S. as a lightweight under the alias Joe Stone, had also been converted to animal painting through his disgust for human violence. Said he : "I looked around the dressing room at the other boxers and for the first time I really saw their broken noses and cauliflower ears, and noticed...
...epic of national defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...