The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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THE HUMBLE ECHO
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
TT’S a great comfort, while
X watching Universal’s
“Phantom Lady,” to reflect
that, no matter how menac-
ing the villain is, he simply
must not be allowed to kill
the heroine. The picture’s a
murder mystery that comes very
close to being as good as the best of
the super-thrillers. There are some
strikingly beautiful photographic
shots, many excellent performances.
The cast is headed by Ella Raines
and Franchot Tone; it includes Alan
Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Andrew
Tombs and Elisa Cook Jr.
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The crew of a U. S. submarine in
the Pacific was the first audience to
hear the musical numbers of Samuel
Goldwyn’s “Up in Arms”; advance
copies of records of songs by Danny
Kaye and Dinah Shore were present-
ed to Lieut. Com. H. J. Kossler,
USN, by RKO Radio.
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Ella Raines was signed by Charles
Boyer and Howard Hawks to a con-
tract when neither had seen her act
—yet they made .her sole asset of
a producing company capitalized at
ELLA RAINES
•$1,000,000! During her first year in
pictures she made good with lead
roles in four pictures for three dif-
ferent companies. Now under con-
tract to Universal, she’s beautiful
(brown hair, green eyes), talented
(See “Corvette K-225,” “Cry Havoc,”
“Phantom Lady”), and her name ii
really Ella Raines Trout; her hus-
band is Capt. Kenneth Trout, who
has the President’s Citation, the Dis-
tinguished Flying Cross and the Air
Medal.
All members of the Thursday Bob
Burns airshow will be busy movie-
making for the next couple of
months. The “Arkansas Traveler”
will be performing in “Belle of the
Yukon,” with Dinah Shore and
Gypsy Rose Lee; Spike Jones and
his City Slickers in “Ziegfeld Fol-
lies.”
“Wide Horizons,” the new radio
series on Mutual Sunday afternoons,
is practically a must. Eddie Dowl-
ing, the actor-playwright-producer,
is a star-maker as well; he launched
Bob Hope, Kate Smith and William
Saroyan. His new discovery is
Maria Mendoza.
Three daughters of famous fathers
are working at Warner Bros, these
days. Karen Hale, daughter of Alan,
makes her film debut in “Cinderella
Jones,” in which Walter Brennan’s
daughter Ruth also appears. Dolores
Prinz is in musical sequences of
“Janie” directed by her father.
ODDS AND ENDS—Alice Faye's
first non-musical dramatic role will be
that of “Sissy” in the motion picture
version of “A Tree Grows in Brook-
lyn,” at 20th Century-Fox . . . Perry
Como will certainly be something for
the girls when he does “Something for
the Boys” . . . Norman Corwin has
carte blanche on his new radio pro-
gram, “Norman Corwin Presents” . . .
Hedy Lamarr has been borrowed from
Metro by Warner Bros, for the leading
feminine role in "The Conspirators.”
You Can Modernize That Old Iron Bed
By Making a Slipcover for the Head
MAKE A SLIPCOVER FOR
THE HEAD OF THE BED
TO MATCH SPREAD -
PAD WITH
COTTON
8ASTED TO
MUSUN-v
cut ofr<U
ABOVE THESE
RODS WITH A
ft i ». ■—LJ Ar*u
YX/'OMEN who are working in
* * factories are learning about
tools. Among other things they
have learned that a hack saw will
cut iron just as a wood saw cuts
wood and that such a saw is a
very handy thing to have around
the house. It may, for example,
be used for a major operation on
an old iron bed. With the aid of
such a saw the cage-like bars at
the foot may be cut off close to the
cross bar at the top of the legs.
The head may also be lowered and
knobs and projections also may be
cut off.
When the bed has been cut down
the head may be padded with cot-
ton basted to muslin or with an
old quilt. A slip cover may then
be made to match the bedspread.
NOTE—This illustration is from BOOK 3
which also contains many other clearly
illustrated ways to give your house a
India’s Sacred Cows
Dairying in India hardly can be
called efficient, with the average
cow producing only 87V2 gallons of
milk per year. The average cow
in Holland produces just 10 times
as much, or 875 gallons a year.
The United States average is 550
gallons per cow.
fresh start this Spring by using things you
already have combined with ingenuity and
a few inexpensive new materials. To get
a copy of BOOK 3 send 15 cents direct to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 3.
Name ........................,. ....
Address .............................
Colossus of Rhodes Was
Most Perfect Model of Man
The Colossus of Rhodes, Greece,
was an immense bronze statue of
Apollo, the sun god, called the
most perfect model of a human
form ever built. It was so large
that few men were big enough to
clasp its huge thumb in their arms.
Toppled over by an earthquake,
it lay for centuries and in 672 A. D,
was sold by the conquering Arabs
for junk.
60 Bombers Lost
Approximately 600 highly trained
men and $20,000,000 worth of pre»-
cision bombing and fighting ma-
chinery are lost when 60 U. S.
bombers are shot down in a raid.
'WST/HEN a product wins and holds customer-preference year in and
W year out you know its leadership is established on merit. On
every score, by every yardstick of value, it has met and passed the test
of critical public appraisal.
Since Firestone developed the first practical pneumatic tractor tire 12
/2\ years ago and put the farm on rubber, farmers have shown
an ever-increasing preference for Firestone Ground Grip
Tires. Their point-for-point superiority t£Z^***j
is known wherever farm
roll. That's why
tractors
farmers, today as always,
Jr use more Firestone Ground
Grip Tractor Tires than any
other make.
GREATER
BETTER CL
LONGER WEAR
BEST
IN RUBBER
Listen to the Voice of Firestone with Richard Crooks and
the Firestone Symphony Orchestra, under the direction
of Howard Barlow, Monday evenings, over N. B, C.
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Mr. Extra Traction represents the
Extra Bar Length that gives
Superior Pulling Power to FIRESTONE
GROUND GRIP TRACTOR TIRES
THE BIGGER THE BITE...
THE STRONGER THE PULL
MORE FARM TRACTORS ARC EQUIPPED
Firestone
GROUND GRIP TIRES
THAN WITH ANY OTHtR MAKE
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Beaumont, E. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1944, newspaper, March 17, 1944; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth647941/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Humble Museum.