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Women Dominate Series Led by Carole Lombard, women will have their day in a world heretofore governed by men, during the "Screen Guild Show," when the blonde glamour girl portrays the first feminine designei of men's suits in "Tailored By Toni." Hollywood's only woman director, Dorothy Arzner, will direct the comedy drama, an original by Connie Lee, only feminine writer of western films. Spring Byington, Edward Everett Horton, and James Stewait complete the cast Dial KNX at 4:30
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America's appetite for the plaintive melodies of the plains Is both whetted and appeased in "Gallop- Ing Dynamite," the new Maurice Conn production for Ambassador Pictures, Inc., which Is showing at the Ideal theatre, In which Kermlt Maynard, popular outdoor star, has the leading role. Connie Lee wrote the two open- space songs which are Introduced In "Galloping Dynamite." The tunes which are destined to become hits, are "Cactus Joe" and "My Heart's On the Plain," both of which have already become familiar to radio audiences throughout the .country.
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In his testimony Lang named 90 persons who attended closed meetings of the writers cell "definite Communist meetings where no one was allowed in unless he was a member of the Comunist Party." All but eight of those named already had been mentioned to the committee. Those whose names had never appeared before were: Milliard Lampell, John Stanford, Connie Lee Bennett, Seymour Bennett, Henrietta Martin, Eunice Mindlen, Julian Zimet and Frank TarlofL
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