Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved his salary, returned to France, where he was suspected of collaborating with the Nazis...
King of Swing Goodman is giving his annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement House. An excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy...
Personal Notices. In China, the Government discouraged an unusual sort of newspaper advertising. Since a respectable wedding now costs $15,000 (six months' salary for the average Government worker), young couples had been ducking the expense, publishing newspaper notices that "Miss X and Mr. Y are now living together...
...Love a Soldier (Paramount) treats frivolously a not -altogether - frivolous theme. An enticing young shipyard worker (Paulette Goddard) spends her days welding metal ships, her nights welding soldiers' hearts. Meantime she clings to the notion that a young woman should consider it her duty to kiss the boys goodbye, but hardly ever do much else for them...
Georgia's grey Walter F. George had a considerably more modest plan to cushion the U.S. worker against a postwar depression. He proposed that each state fix its own scale of unemployment compensation (which at present ranges from $2-a-week minimum in Alabama to $22-a-week maximum in Connecticut), and that the states continue to foot the bill. The Federal Government would step in only if a state could not meet all payments; then it would lend, not give funds...