Casablanca
Coming to the Maco Sunday
Conceived and compiled by Jason Scorich
HTF Staff Writer
The accent is romance when the new Humphrey Bogart meets Ingrid Bergman in the Warner Bros. picture, “Casablanca,” a drama of the city that rocked the world. The picture opens with a midnite show Saturday at 11:15 p.m. at the Maco theater for a four-day showing. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 2, 1943
'KILLER' BOGART TURNS LOVER AT DEMAND OF FANS
It all began a couple of picture ago, but reaches its peak in “Casablanca,” this idea of Humphrey Bogart doing romantic roles.
“Bad Boy” Bogart alias “The Killer” is Warner Bros. No. 1 tough guy but in all his pictures the scenario writers had to put in some sort of love sequence. You know, got to cover every angle to make everybody happy.
And then it happened. The women folk began to overlook the main plot of the picture and searched out Bogie’s love making. They liked it—and wanted more! Evidently, the tough guy had plenty of sex appeal.
The letters started coming in to his studio in ever-increasing quantities. Today, Humphrey Bogart receives just about the largest amount of fan mail accorded any Hollywood star. The letters are all from the ladies— they want Bogie, they want to see him make love!
“The Killer” took it all in stride, although with a bit of wonder. Could he, the screen’s hard-hearted merchant of menace, be turning softie?
Bow to Demand
Whatever it was, though, Warner Bros. and the star bowed to public demand. Bogie started to get more, and heavier, romantic parts. You might say it started with “The Big Shot.” Irene Manning was the recipient of his attentions there. Then there were the two pictures with Mary Astor, “The Maltese Falcon” and “Across the Pacific.” “The Killer” grew more and more mellow. He was the Bogie of old with the males but when it came to the ladies, “The Killer” complex was gone with the wind.
As we said, it reaches a peak in “Casablanca,” the Maco Theatre’s coming attraction. Our hero is herein cast opposite lovely Ingrid Bergman.
Now, if there ever was a contradiction in terms, there it is. The menace merchant starring with as gentle, as feminine a lady as Miss Bergman. What’s more, Bogie has to start off from scratch—woo, win, lose and then re-win the fair lady. He runs the gamut of a lover’s histrionics.
And he does—with a vengeance! Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 2, 1943
HELD BY JAPS
The War Department made public today the names of 338 United States soldiers who are held as prisoners of war by the Japanese including among internees from Minnesota the names of Private Leonard S. Holma, brother of John Holma, of 713 Seventh Street, Eveleth; Private Anthony J. Petrich, son of Mrs. Mary Ann Petrich, of Box 488, Chisholm, and Private, First Class, Alexander Wayne, son of Jack Koivisto, of Box 107, Iron. Virginia Daily Enterprise—Friday, April 2, 1943
15 YEAR-OLD WIFE SLAIN BY HER UNCLE
Sidney, Neb.—Authorities today sought to establish a motive for the fatal shooting of a 15 year old expectant mother and the subsequent suicide of her uncle, who they described as the slayer.
The slaying and suicide occurred yesterday in the rugged hill country northwest of here. A search for the slayer of Ms. Chloe Connolly, the teen-aged wife of a paratrooper, started after her body was found in the farm home where she had been living with her uncle and grandmother.
Several hours later, a posse of 40 men led by 65 year old Bert Gibson, combed the area near the farm home and found the body of the young wife’s uncle, Orrin McLaughlin, 50, under a rocky ledge, less than a mile from his home.
Mrs. Connolly’s husband, Corp. Gene Connolly, is stationed with a paratroop at Ft. Benning, Ga. She expected her baby next month. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 2, 1943
MILLION MEN IN UNIFORM VISITED AND USED NATIONAL PARKS IN ‘42
New York—The following are recent reports of interest to those who may have reason to travel this war year: The national parks are serving in the war effort. In his annual report Newton B. Drury, director of the National Park Service, announded that 1,000,000 men in the armed forces visited and used the parks during 1942. All federal admission charges were waived for men in uniform. The majority of visitors naturally went to parks near large training areas, but the extent of interest is shown by the fact that Yellowstone National Park, far from any large training camps or bases, was visited by 3, 578 men in uniform. Many park areas have been used for recreation and rest camps both for our own service men and for those of the Allied nations, especially sailors from British ships coming into the United States ports.
The National Park Service has co-operated with the Army in planning and constructing recreation centers and rest camps in the parks in regions of military concentration. Thirty-three such camps where constructed. Several parks also have been used for the training of ski and winter troops and the testing of winter equipment, a leading one being Mt. McKinley Park, in Alaska. During the year the park service distributed more than 75,000 descriptive booklets of the parks to uniformed men through the United Service Organization.
Winter vacationists in Quebec may admire the beautiful handicraft products of the French Canadian province in the regions 
Pet Trouble
Mrs. Byron Phillips, 17, of Los Angeles, is suing for divorce because her husband gives his pet lion cub more attention than he does her. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 16, 1943in which they are made. Others who go southward for winter recreation will have a similar opportunity, for an exposition of Province of Quebec handicraft will be held at Winter Park College in Florida, opening Feb. 18 and lasting for a month. The exhibits have been selected by O. A. Beriau, director of the Handicrafts School, who will be on hand and give information on the making of the articles. The exposition will be the first of its kind to be held by Quebec in the southern part of the United States.
Sea Island, Georgia, in addition to being one of the most popular resorts in the South, is the principal one of a group of islands with much historic interest as well as vacation appeal. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 2, 1943
We, the Women
WAR RESTRICTS BUT DOESN’T SIMPLIFY AMERICAN TASTES
By Ruth Millett, NEA Staff Writer
Every once in a while in conversation someone wonders out loud if wartime restrictions will have a permanent effect on the American people.
Will Americans keep on walking, once they can use their automobiles as much as they like? Will they be less prone to speed now that they have learned they can get where they are going at 35 miles an hour? Will they be thriftier spenders? Will they be less dependent than in the past on gadgets and luxuries?
In short, will they hang onto some of the ways of wartime living—or will they go right on back to the kind of lives they led before the war—if they are given a chance?
Well, it seems as though that questions may have been answered the other day when the ban on bread slicing was lifted.
You didn’t hear anybody saying that they guessed they would go on slicing their own bread, since they had begun to get used to the idea.
No, everybody was tickled to death to think that here was one wartime restriction lifted. Trivial a one as it was, the people were delighted not to have to put up with it any longer, but to go back to the easy days of pre-sliced bread.
Luxury As Usual
Won’t it be that way with everything? When the war is over won’t we revel in having things easy again—providing, of course, we are given the chance?
Sure, we will. We’ll cash in our war bonds, buy new cars and step on the gas. And we’ll delight in having the luxuries of living once again.
We can go back to the horse and buggy days and live without luxuries if we have to. But we don’t like to. We prefer to have our living easy and unrestricted.
But what is the harm in that? If we win the right to an easier life—we might as well enjoy it to the utmost.
But right now, that is all just pleasant day-dreaming. For we haven’t yet won the right. Virginia Daily Enterprise—Friday, April 2, 1943
Romance is in the air...
Unwed Denver Girl Drowns Her Three Newborn Babies
Denver—An unwed mother has admitted, Detective Capt. James E. Childers said, that she drowned her three newborn babies and hid their bodies in a hope chest because “they were children of sin.” Bernice Williams, 23 signed a statement admitting the slayings, Childers announced, after a calm recital of how she bore the babies unattended, the first one in 1941. She was taken into custody without charge and held without bail, pending further questioning today. “I did it because I didn’t want anyone else to have them and I was afraid I could never bring them up,” the officerquoted the trimly dressed brunet as saying. Three tiny bodies, two of them almost mummified, were found yesterday wrapped in cloth and cardboard, stuffed in a chest stored in an apartment house basement. A caretaker notified the coroner’s officeafter detecting an odor near the chest. “I couldn’t help it because they were born,” Childers quoted the young woman as saying. “I’m just constituted that way. They were children of sin and it was best that they should die. Nobody but me knew about them until today—not even the fathers.
“My physique is large and my condition never showed.”
Childers said her unsigned statement contained these details: That she was unmarried, and that the babies were born in April of 1941, February of 1942, and February this year. That she lied off work, as a department store buyer of infants’ wear, only three days at each birth, and performed the necessary surgery unaided, at night, in the bathroom. That she submerged each infant in a bathtub of water for 20 minutes, then wrapped it in a cloth and hid it under her bed until she was able to carry it downstairs to the wooden chest. The first two children were girls, with the same father, the statement related. The third was a boy, by a different man. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 2, 1943
Wine, Women And Song In Prison
Atlanta—Big liquor stills and little stills, vice, gambling and revolt were common in Georgia’s Piney Wood Marble “model” penitentiary before 25 prisoners took control one night last week, gorged themselves with food and “departed hilariously,” a legislative committee reported. The committee told Governor Ellis Arnall yesterday that the new warden who took over the previous administration recently has suppressed these conditions, but added: “The conditions were so flagrant and far-reaching that he has not even yet had time to discover and correct all that has been going on.” All except eight of the fugitives have been recaptured. Escape artists Leland Harvey and Forrest Turner still elude search.
In a written report, the committee, headed by Senator Claude Pittman, said new Warden H. R. DuVall found “that there had been intimacies between men prisoners and those in the women’s section.
“When the women wanted company, all they had to do was ask for an electrician or a plumber, and it seems that most of the prisoners were either electricians or plumbers.” Virginia Daily Enterprise—Friday, April 23, 1943
Former Hibbing Man Victor In Pennsylvania State Suit
St. Paul—The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania today lost its suit in the Minnesota Supreme Court to collect $2,745 from William Tappen, formerly of Hibbing, for maintenance of his former wife in a Pennsylvania institution. In 1906, Martha Tappen, wife of the defendant, was adjudged insane by the Ramsey County Probate Court and committed to the St. Peter State Hospital. In 1912 Tappen had her removed to the Allegheny County Home and Hospital in Woodville, Pa., although he continued to reside in Minnesota.
In 1913 the marriage was annulled pursuant to judgment entered in St. Louis county which, among other things, provided that Tappen should maintain Martha Tappen during her lifetime at the Allegheny hospital or some other suitable place where she could have equally good care.
The woman was in the Pennsylvania hospital for about 26 years until June 1, 1938, and during the period Tappen gave the hospital approximately $13 per month. Tappen alleges that, pursuant to a Pennsylvania statute, requiring that the commonwealth pay $2 per week to any county hospital in Pennsylvania for every indigent insane person confinedthere, it did pay the Allegheny Hospital $2 a week for Martha Tappen’s care for 26 years. This total, $2,745, which the commonwealth now seeks to recover under a statute which provides that the property of the estate of insane persons who have been maintained at the expense of the commonwealth shall be liable for such maintenance.
Tappen, who now resides in Florida, and at one time was general manager of an iron mining company in Hibbing, never received any statement from the commonwealth and believed in paying the monthly statement submitted by the county hospital he was discharging his obligation under the Minnesota judgement.
“Defendant was no longer Martha Tappen’s ‘husband’ after the annulment decree of 1913,” said the Supreme Court opinion, written by Associate Justice Charles M. Loring. “That decree destroyed the marriage relationship so that the parties were no longer husband and wife, and the Pennsylvania statutes have no application to him. Such being the case, the commonwealth, under its own laws, had no remedy against him." Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 9, 1943 Mrs. Byron Phillips, 17, of Los Angeles, is suing for divorce because her husband gives his pet lion cub more attention than he does her. Virginia Daily Enterprise— Friday, April 16, 1943
