Star fit list
* Movie Whereabouts
* How to Kiss a Girl
* Toys for Grosbys
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HAVEN’T you frequently
felt, when you were at
the movies, that you’d like
to know where some of the
scenes were taken? Harry
Sherman, producer of the
“Hopalong Cassidy” pic
tures, has solved that long
standing need.
Beginning with “Beneath Western
Skies,” each of these films will
carry an announcement of the loca
tion where it was made.
It’s a grand idea. But probably it
won’t be taken up to any extent,
for imagine the shock if you were
told, at the beginning of a picture
whose scenes were laid in France,
for instance, that it was filmed
right along the good old California
sea coast. Parts of that coast have
been used so often that old-timers
recognize them instantly.
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It looks as if Metro had a
winner in “Three Comrades,” the
sequel to “All Quiet on the Western
Front.” Robert Taylor really had
a chance to be dramatic in this one,
Robert Taylor
and he had to be good, for the other
leading roles are played by Mar
garet Sullivan, Franchot Tone and
Robert Young.
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Wayne Morris has found, to his
sorrow, that kissing a girl for the
movies is pretty complicated and
decidedly difficult. For instance, the
director tells you to look down at
the girl. Maybe you’re not tall
enough; then you have to stand on a
box. (That doesn’t worry Wayne,
because he’s plenty tall.) “You
have to take the girl in your arms
and kiss her,” he says, “while the
hairdresser stands by, glaring if
you muss the girl’s hair, and you
mustn’t wrinkle the collar of the
girl’s dress, and you must raise
your arms so that your own coat
doesn’t hike up in back; if it does,
everything stops while the tailor is
summoned to sec what’s wrong with
the coat. Screen love is the bunk—
but it’s a living.”
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Peg La Centra is the joy of radio
program directors. Not only does
she sing (probably you’ve heard her
on the “For Men Only” programs,)
but she acts the female character
parts in the dramatic sketches as
well. She’s been women and chil
dren with southern, Scotch and
Swedish accents; all she needs to
do when a different dialect is re
quired is to hear someone who
speaks it—she’s a born mimic.
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Jerry Belcher has in broadcast in
terviews with interesting neighbors
from almost every fair-sized town
in the United States, and from some
in Canada, but so far he hasn’t in
terviewed any of the ones he knows
best of all—those in his own corner
of Texas.
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Bing Crosby’s wife went to New
York to have a lot of fun and do
a lot of shopping. And what do you
suppose she bought? Clothes and
toys for those four small Crosby
boys! Somehow, the stores’ other
offerings just didn't seem to be very
interesting.
ODDS AMD EMDS—Gloria Blundell
has been learning to sail a boat, with
her brother-in-law, Dirk Dowell, doing
the teaching . . . Edward Arnold was
weighed the other day at the studio
and beamed when lie found that he'd
lost four pounds, due to the hot
weather . . . And then along came
Lionel Barrymore and he beamed be
cause he'd gained five . . . James
Stewart has 17 harmonious, but he’s
still in the market for more . . . Joun
Bennett collects salt and pepper shak
ers . . . Universal’s budget for Deanna
Durbin's next picture, “Cinderella,” is
$1,000,01)0—which will buy a lot of
glass slippers . . . John Bayne is doing
so well in “Garden of the Moon" that
Warner Brothers have him all set for
u big build-up—so add him to your
list of potential movie stars . . . Have
you a good idea for a radio program
for children? A certain big cereal
company is in the market for one . . .
Joe Benner recently escaped injury
while broadcasting—and from a wood
en box, of all things! He was sup
posed to be thrown out of the ring by
a wrestler. A splinter from the broken
box used in sound effects missed him
by a fraction of an inch.
© Western Newspaper Union.
From Pen to Platter
Forty-five million pounds of steaks,
chops, roasts and stews are consumed
daily in the United States, the product
of five and one-lialf million farms which
now hold 133 million head of cattle,
hogs and sheep. So immense is the in
dustry that 24 cents of every farm dol
lar comes from livestock sale, and 29
million people are employed in the
work. From western ranges like that
at the right, thousands of carloads of
beef are moved each fall to corn belt
feedlots (below) to be finished for
market. From 13 corn belt states comes
60 per cent of all our beef and much of
the feed used in livestock production.
Following is a bird’s-eye view of the
livestock and meat industry.
Efficient production methods are responsi
ble for “ton litters” of pigs (below) anti
blue ribbon lambs (right). Expositions and
fairs have done much (o improve livestock
breeding and growing.
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| Sponsored by organizations like
the National Livestock and Meat
l Hoard are research activities to
improve meat’s Quality and palata
bility. Below are shown tests for
tenderness and cooking methods.
Another factor in better meat produc
tion is 4-H club work by farm youths, a
bigger item than most people realize.
Livestock skipping is im
portant, for animals must
be protected. Trucks join
the railroads in this work
today, and a steady stream
of grunting, baa-a-ing loads
reach terminals daily.
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The above map shows where our meat ^
is produced. Two-thirds of it is consumed
in states east of the Mississippi river.
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Efficiency in livestock trading is equalled
only by the packing house’s efficiency in
dressing its meat. Above is a typical scene
where buyer and seller transact their busi
ness verbally, never in writing until some
time later. A significant feature of these
transactions is that all animals are paid for
in cash and the check in settlement is ten
dered on the day of the sale.
Soon thereafter, the livestock will be on
its way through the packing house. From
the time it is dressed, meat is kept under
constant refrigeration, going through proc
essing until it appears in wholesale cuts,
fresh from the cutting department and
ready for the retail trade.
This is the final chapter in the story of
another industry where the modern giant.
Research, has been of untold importance in
improving the product. Yesterday’s tough
steak, thanks to science, is only a night
_ mare.
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In the old days stockmen accompanied their animals to
market. Now railroads work with commission firms which
handle the entire transaction. An average car carries 25
cattle, 80 hogs or 250 lambs, the latter loaded in double
deck fashion.
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In 1,100 American Ig
packing houses in- ||
spectors watch over
meat as it goes J
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and on to the retail W
market.
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At 160,000 retail shops American housewives
.'anjiow buy a different meat cut every day for at
least four months, because the modern market
caters to women who want variety in their menu.
Right: The “finished product” of a nation-wide
industry.