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Personalities in the News' Miss Florence Joan Lupo, Big Sister to 180 Midshipmen. Born? Sure, waddayathink? Washington, D.C., 1920. (Took us ten minutes to find that out). Graduated Western High School in the District and soon thereafter started her career in the Navy. After a few years with Naval Intelligence, Miss Lupo served in the Supply Corps under Captain McIntosh, Lieutenant Commander (now Captain) Batcholder, and Lieutenant Dietz, now stationed overseas. She was the first secretary to work in the Supply School in Boston, and has shared in the dreams of the founders of the Midshipman School...
Adopted. By Lucille le Sueur Fairbanks Tone Terry (Cinemactress Joan Crawford) and Actor-Husband Phillip: an eight-year-old boy, thereupon named Phillip Jr. The actress adopted a four-month-old girl in 1940, returned another adopted son at his mother's request...
Fresh in Hollywood's memories was a reception at which self-possessed Madame Chiang Kai-shek sat on a dais, received a hundred-odd noted filmsters playing bit parts. Among them: Joan Bennett, first to be presented; Marlene Dietrich, who hovered long at the Madame's side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood...
...Based on" Lynn Riggs's folk play, Green Grow the Lilacs, Oklahoma! chiefly concerns the struggle between a good cowboy (Alfred Drake) and an evil hired hand (Howard da Silva) over a fetching farm girl (Joan Roberts). The cowboy's triumph is delayed by a perversity of female behavior pretty glaring even for musicomedy, not to speak of a brand of villainy pretty passe even in Wild West films...
When a producer has a few extra millions that are feeling lonely, he concocts something like "The Crystal Ball." Not unlike the many thousand Melvyn Douglas-Norma Shearer-Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor et al gay sophisticated comedies that Hollywood has created under the categorical title of Ars Gratia Artis, "The Crystal Ball," with the Paulette Goddard-Ray Milland combo, makes a more distinctive showing at the box office than on the screen. Definitely an argument for the $25,000 a year income ceiling...