Speedway Flyer, Volume 13, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1945 — Page 2

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THE..* Speedway Flyer NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTARIAN NON-PROFIT This paper is owned and published by civic-minded Speedway business and professional men. It is distributed every Friday to every home in Speedway. It is strictly a SPEEDWAY paper. It has been distributed in Speedway for over thirteen years. It is operated in a co-operative fashion—Speedway business men, the town officials, the school, the Speedway churches, all local dubs and civic groups, in fact the entire town of Speedway contributes to this community enterprise. Everyone concerned with the management of the paper lives in Speedway and is interested primarily in the best interest of Speedway. The Speedway Flyer is, in the best sense of the word, SPEEDWAY’S OWN PAPER. HOWARD ANDERSON, Editor Editorial Office: 14th and Winton Avenue Belmont 3555

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Reteaaed by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE FOR the first time Hollywood can remember, two actors, in different studios and different productions, are playing the same character. In “Murder, My Sweet’’ (RKO) and “The Big Sleep” (Warners), the author, Raymond Chandler, has as central character a hard-fisted detective, Philip Marlowe. That was right up Humphrey Bogart’s alley, and Warners gave it to him; at RKO, apple - cheeked Dick Powell got it Off the screen they’re good friends, go sailing and play bridge together. It was Powell who took Bogart under his wing when the latter came to Hollywood from the New York stage; today Bogart is Powell’s biggest booster for success in his own field. * Dorothy Lamour is headed for more dramatic roles, now that she’s abandoning sarong roles; “Medal for Benny’’ and her current

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DOROTHY LAMOUR chore, “Masquerade in Mexico,’? give her opportunities to go all out for serious acting. Now it’s no sarongs—maybe no technicolor! Betty Hutton’s career seems to be following the general lines of Carole Lombard’s. Carole started as a tornado, then slid over into romantic and dramatic roles. The blonde bombshell’s dual role in “Here Comes the WAVES” showed what she could do as a dreamy, romantic lass, and in her next, “Incendiary Blonde,” based on the life of Texas Guinan, she has some “moments” that are anything but incendiary.

If you were disappointed because Gracie Fields didn’t sing a note in “Holy Matrimony,” wait tin you see “Molly and Me.” She not only sings six songs, she does one of them as a duet with Monty Woolley. According to The Beard—“ When Woolley sings, it is quite as rare a thing as when Woolley shaves.” Grade’s planning to return to England by the western route, entertaining troops all the way. First thing we know those low-cut, off-the-shoulder fashions are going to return. Twelve of Tallulah Bankhead’s 14 frocks in the Ernst Lubitsch “A Royal Scandal” are made that way. Trouble is; a girl has to have shoulders like Tallulah’s to wear those gowns. The picture, in which she plays Catherine the Great, promises to be one of those Lubitsch masterpieces. * With her first week’s salary as “Grandma Rommely” in 20th Cen-tury-Fox’s “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” 63-year-old Ferike Boros finished paying a debt of gratitude. Nine years ago the Hungarian actress had a run of bad luck; hospital and doctor bills took all her savings, and she was about to lose her home when Director John Cromwell stopped foreclosure proceedings.

Kay Kyser and his “College of Musical Knowledge*’ are off on the most extensive hospital tour in the history of this country. Broadcasting along the way, they’ll sweep through the country in a big arc. Tanis Chandler’s RKO contract came in an unexpected way. A studio executive heard her sing on one of the first OWI programs to General MacArthur’s invasion troops and Filipino guerillas on Luzon. You’ll hear her in “George White’s Scandals of 1945.’’ Shirley Dinsdale, 17-year-old ventriloquist, and her dummy, Judy Splinters, are now regular members of the cast' of Nelson Eddy’s CBS “Electric Hour.” Shirley*s~lT)sophomore at the University of California and a holder of the distinguished honor citation from the government for war bond campaign work. ODDS AND ENDS—Nancy Walker is such a hit in the Broadway musical, "On the Town,” that her movie alma mater, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, wants to rewrite the stories scheduled for Mickey Rooney and star Nancy in them. . . . At Warner Bros, they're preparing a short subject entitled "GJ. Music" to be made up of name bands overseas with the U. S. army. ... Jean Hersholt, star of CBS "Dr. Christian," will go to Denmark immediately after the war to make a survey of postwar needs. . . . Darryl Hickman, who plays the cynical "Raymond" on the Corliss Archer air show, will play the same role in the Corliss Archer movie, "Kiss and Tell."

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“And For This We Fight,” Dad In France Cpl. Paul Kelement Writes To Little Daughter “Sandy”

• The following letter was received by little “Sandy” Kelement on her first birthday from her father who is serving “somewhere in France.” Dear Little “Sandy”: Your mamma wanted me to write you a letter for your birthday, so I will try. I hope you get your letter by then.

How are you Sandy? It has been a long time since I saw you last. Maybe we will be together soon and have a romping good time. I don’t know whether I’ll know how to play with a little girl, but I will try real hard. Every night, when I come in, I look at your picture and your mother’s, which I keep on a locker at the foot of my bed so I can see you even when I am in bed. I sometimes wonder if you will like your daddy when you see him. I know I love my little girl. She was just a little rascal when I saw her last. We will have to make up for a lot of lost time when we three get together again. Until then I want you to be a good girl and mind mother. I hope I will not be gone too long and then we can go right along just like I never was away. It is for this that we fight. Sandy, this seems to be about all I can think of for this time. I love you, Sandy. Your Daddy. Cpl. Paul G. Kelement is the son of Mrs. Elsie Hall, owner of the Gift Shop on E. Washington street.

Salary Checks Sent To Teachers Checks totaling $1,525,519.16 were forwarded to school corporations of Marion County last week in the semi-final distribution of teachers’ salary funds made available by the Indiana gross income tax collections. Last week’s checks were part of the state-wide distribution of $12,936,623.52 and represented the 23rd semi-annual payment of allowances from the state-collected fund to the school units for tuition support. The primary purpose of the state gross income tax law when it was enacted 12 years ago was to insure continuance of Indiana’s outstanding educational system by guaranteeing salaries of teachers. At that time Marion County’s initial grant amounted to only $416,894.40, but each year it has shown a steady increase until the present allotment established a new all-time high. Payments this year are figured at 100 per cent of the average

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minimum salary for each teaching unit, as compared to $250 for each unit when the plan was set up in 1933. Teaching units are based on an average daily attendance of 35 grade school pupils or 25 high school pupils. For the 1945 distribution, 19,721 such units were allocated throughout the state. A similar allotment will be received by each county shortly after July 1, 1945. In addition to school distributions, Marion County receives another substantial portion of the income tax collections for public welfare work including assistance to the aged and blind, and allotments! for dependent-children.

’Hl* SIGN IN THE HALL I keep on waiting for the bell— The time for changing classes: I hold my breath and pray that he Will see me when he passes. He may be with some other girl—(Oh, would that I were she!) But my heart skips a boogie beat When he says “Hi!” to me! I’m not at all discouraged yet, I’ll never give up trying, While there is life, there’s always hope— As long as he keeps “Hi”—ing!

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