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...Hello, Frisco, Hello* (20th Century-Fox) is approximately 100% Alice Faye. This is her first picture since she took time out two years ago to have a baby. Slimmer (112 Ib.), more sedate and embellished with a new hairdo by famed Coiffeur Wayne Forrest, Alice winsomely croons many an old sweet song...
...Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval, and when the picture opens in San Francisco this week, the title will be Hello, San Francisco, Hello...
...Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered its losing music war with the radio networks...
...defensive and your almighty production lines will take care of winning the war. Why has the U.S. in almost two weeks' time not yet bombed Tokyo ? It could easily be done from Siberian bases. Even from Alaska. Or could it be you are afraid Los Angeles and Frisco would be bombed in return? Wars are not won being afraid. You have to take chances, else you get beaten...
...readiness to handle any foreseeable defense traffic. But the prospect of extraordinary wheat loadings, on top of the industrial boom, has caused some Midwestern roads to look around for a hedge. Third week in February, car-loadings on the Kansas City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...