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...Fibre 66, regarded by chemists as the first satisfactory substitute for silk in hosiery. Last week Celanese Corp. of America, third largest U. S. rayon manufacturer,* approved construction of a $10,000,000 factory near Pearisburg, Va. where it too will produce a new synthetic silk fibre. This unnamed yarn, said company officials, can be used for various textile products, does not correspond with Fibre 66. But the trade saw in the announcement a second sign that the Japanese silkworm soon will spin no more for U. S. hosiery makers...
...Fibre 66, which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
...authors of "Boy Meets Girl" have turned an amusing newspaper yarn into a play that is as illogical and hilarious as most of their writings. An ace correspondent (William Gaxton) undertakes to win for his chief (Edward H. Robbins) the job of ambassador to Russia by discrediting the incumbent, Alonzo P. ("My friends call me 'Stinky'") Goddhe, who is portrayed by Victor Moore. The task turns out to be more than Gaxton had anticipated even with Mr. Moore's complete cooperation until he finally abandons the assignment and tries to make his victim the best-loved diplomat in the world...
...companion piece, "Sky Giant," is an unconvincing yarn about a school for transport pilots run by army men. The picture shows Harry Carcy, as head of the school, working Richard Dix and Chester Morris 24 hours a day, completely ignoring differences between military and civilian flying, and disregarding nearly all the federal laws governing the latter. Joan Fontaine registers the correct emotions...
...with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan's Battery wall. At her helm was no pessimistic college senior, but a persuasive, soft-spoken yarn spinner who had ridden out a depression, tasted the tang of the world, and had a tale to sell...