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News as glittering as Golconda came out of the Department of the Interior last week. The Department described what it rapturously called "the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever witnessed...
...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...
...Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable in Let There Be Music. Senor Iturbi, forced by the curious exigencies of the screen to prove that he is almost anything else...
Last week Enrico Caruso's only daughter was married in Rockville, Md. to Ensign Michael Hunt Murray, U.S.N.R., of Garrison. N.Y. Enrico Caruso's dark-haired, 23-year-old Gloria (by his 1918 marriage to Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, then and now of Manhattan) shares at least one thing in common with the rest of her generation. She is too young to remember her father's voice-the voice which millions have never forgotten. She was less than a year old on that operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat...
Collectors have long been interested in such huge, gay sheets. Good poster items currently bring as much as $200. The poster master, Toulouse-Lautrec, had no need of funds either from advertisers or collectors. His father was so well heeled that he could afford such eccentricities as an otter hunt, in Canadian costume, in the streets of Paris...