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Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's august Marble Collegiate Reformed Church went to Hollywood as technical adviser for Warner Brothers' clerical production One Foot In Heaven. Returned to his cure, Pastor Peale's chief criticism of the industry was its penchant for putting too many drinking scenes in pictures. Other observations...
...Cinemactress Anna Neagle headed home for London, agreed that "Hollywood has forgotten about the world." ≤≤ For $1 a year Vincent Astor turned over to the Coast Guard his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal, made famous by many a Roosevelt fishing cruise. An earlier Nourmahal, sold by Astor in the mid-'20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce-not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private "Bummy" Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic...
...Know That You Know (Joe Marsala; Decca). The most straightforward hot clarinetist in the business and his clean little band do the honors to one of Vincent Youmans' great foxtrots. Mrs. Marsala gets off for a nice hot harp chorus...
...Biddle announced that he would place before a grand jury charges of seditious conspiracy among Trotskyist leaders. That meant, among others, Vincent Dunne...
...start summer-vacation courses for British schoolteachers on U.S. life. Some subjects: U.S. domestic life and arts, literature, geography, painting and sculpture, the U.S. Constitution and Presidents (by Harold Laski), the South, "Main Street." For instructors, it drew heavily on U.S. citizens in Britain, among them Reporter Vincent Sheean...