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NEWS FROM
HOLLYWOOD
Well, we hear that Clifton
Webb will play an angel, next.
He’s to play an angel to an un
born child in a yarn written by
Harry Segall, author of “Here
Comes Mr. Jordan.” The title
of his latest epic is unknown at
the present writing.
Joan Fontaine has signed for
three pictures at Paramount, the
first being her costarring role
with Ray Milland in “Mr. and
Mrs. Anonymous,” with George
Stevens directing.
David Niven's first picture for
I*—Prune minister Chifly has announced that government muni
tions are not to be sold to anyone. Chifly is prime minister of (a)
Canada; (b) Australia; (e) England.
—The Arab League consists of (a) seven states; (b) three states;
(e) 15 states.
3-—Robert M. Hutchins, who has been traveling through Germany,
has cited the United States educational system as a poor example for
Germans to follow. Hutchins is chancellor of (a) the University of
California; (b) University of Nebraska; (c) University of Chicago.
€—Senator Harry F. Byrd predicts a federal budget deficit elose
to 10 billion dollars by 1950, and that this will mean an increase in
taxes which will “shake the private enterprise system to its very foun
dations." Byrd is senator from (a) North Carolina; (b) Massachusetts;
(e) Virginia.
s.—Discovery of 34 previously unknown hormones has been an
nounced. Hormones are usually thought of in connection with (a)
heart disease; (b) cancer; (c) pneumonia.
ANSWERS
I.—(b) Prim* minuter at Auatralia. 3. (c) Univeraly of Chit-ego.
2.—(a) Seem Meter. 4.—(<) Senator from Virginia.
s.—(b) Center.
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50 Symbol for
tantalum
52 A species of
dolphinlike
cetaceans
53 Knave of
clubs in Lu
56 Predatory
incursion
58 Seasons
60 A linguistic
stock of
t mid < , ■ n t
Negroes
61 To assert to
be true
83 Tantalizcr
65 Spanish title
66 Senior
(abbr.)
67 A worm
VERTICAL
I Newts
2 A stain
3 Buddhist
priest
4 Greeting
5 Queerer
6 A sunshade
7 Upon
8 Poker stake
9 To swear
10 A Chinese
weight
12 Grief
14 Commis
sioned officer
(nhbr.)
17 Man's name
HORIZONTAL
1 To recede
4 A call to ex
cite attention
6 To pilfer, as
• game
11 Gushed
13 Yearly
15 Toward
10 More mature
18 Gait of a
horse
18 A pigpen
21 Ku i.m
river
22 Plural
ending
23 A division of
corals
20 To consume
29 Harden into
a mass
31 To cull
33 International
language
34 Symbol for
oleum
35 Part of a
circle
3« Confederate
general
3f» A pronoun
40 Note of scale
41 New Zealand
tree with
reddish wood
48 Utters
45 Beast of
burden
47 A'isulis
MGM will be with Kathryn
Grayson and Mario Lanza in
“Kiss of Fire.” He is to play
Kathryn’s manager in the film.
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Believe it or not, but Lana
' Turner and her husband. Bob
' Topping, haven’t been to a night
] ■ club since they dropped by a
' Sunset Strip spot after a pre-
J miere a couple of months ago.
They’re getting to be real home
bodies, and, what’s more they de
clare they like the idea.
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I Another newcomer, who seems
; to be going places, is Keefe Bras
ell, who scored a big hit in Ida
Luplno’s “Not Wanted,” and now
• has a top role in the new George
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24 A kind of
fuel
25 Measure of
land
27 Military
force
28 Pedal digits
29 Genus of
African
trees
30 Word of
sorrow
32 Examination
3(1 To steal
37 Armed
vessel
42 Bone of
Ute forearm
44 A poisonous
snake
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Stevens production at Par a
mount, “A Place in the Sun.”
Joan Crawford predicts that
“in two years, David Brian will
be bigger than any male star ex
cept Gable — and may even
stand on a par with the king
himself.” Brian, by the way, used
to be a ticket taker at New York’s
Rcxy.
Jean Crain declares that the
most important item for movie
success is not beauty—it’s brains.
While she admits that an actress
with a pretty face stands a bet
ter chance of being noticed, she
says that if a beautiful girl
doesn’t have the personality and
talent to go with her looks, she
will soon find herself out in the
cold.
Jimmy Stewart has to do two
more pictures at U. L. before he
can get around to doing “Jack
pot” for Darryl Zanuck. His two
picture contract with 20th Cen
tury calls for picture approval.
In the first five weeks Bill
Dozier spent with Columbia, he
has five stories in work: They
are, “They Walk Alone,” about
leprosy; a re-make of “Craig’s
Wife,” which Loretta Young may
do; “Jubal Troop;” and Irish
varn, “Let’s Be Farrel” and
“That Nice Mrs. Carey,” which
was written by Mary McCarthy,
author of “Theodora Goes Wild.”
GI TRAINING SURVEY
The Veterans Administration
has announced that it is making
a nation-wide survey of alleged
abuses by colleges and training
institutions of the veterans edu
cational program. It is looking
particularly into: (1) misleading
advertising by schools, and that
which emphasizes subsistence
benefits or equipment furnished
free to veterans, rather than the
training offered; and (2) dum
my business firms set up pri
! marily to furnish supplies at re
j tail price for veterans or to lease
| facilities and equipmnet with
I the end purpose to increase pro-
I fits to the institution or inter
csted parties.
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48 Sings in a
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49 One who
consumea
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51 British
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54 Grows older
55 A planet
56 Sun god
57 Indian mul
berry (pl.)
59 Symbol for
samarium
62 To depart
64 A compass
point
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! STUDENTS
Despite a drop in the number
of veterans in colleges and uni
versities of the nation, total en
rollment this fall stands at 2,-
456,000 students, as compared
with 2,408,000 in the last college
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■year, according to Federal Se
■urity Administrator Oscar R.
Ewing. Veterans comprised
nearly half of the nation’s col
lege students in 1947, while this
I year they account for only 35 per j
icent of the total enrollment.
WORKERS
The number ol unemployed in
■ November was estimated by the
Census Bureau at 3,'409,000, com
pared with 1,831,000 in Novem
ber, 1948. Last month, the em
ployment figure was 59,518,000.
Thursday, December 29, 1949
DIVIDENDS
Publicly-reported cash divi
dends in the quarter ending Oc
tober 31st totaled $1,378,800,000,
or brie per cent above the 1948
quarter.