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...Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant at $13 a week-lost his job when he asked for a $3 raise-made enough money to establish himself as an artist by shipping for five months on a Standard Oil tanker to South America). In brief, you would say he looks for all the world like a cautious banker (he has designed women's clothes, a Russian restaurant, stage sets, a night club-illustrated more than 50 books, written and illustrated two children's books...
Stokowski had been engaged to conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...
Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...
...middle of a war, or to get oil supplies that any private company wouldhave to give it anyway. He also alleged that, "if my memory serves me correctly," oil delivered by a 1,200-mile pipeline would cost more in the long run than oil routed by tanker over the 3,300-mile run around Arabia and through the Suez Canal...
...Navy tanker in the Central Pacific: China, with Loretta Young. The hero blows up a mountain, snuffing out a Jap division, to the skepticism of the audience...