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Contributed by R G. Pelley
RCAF Theatre, Gander - 1943
This came from a little magazine
published by the RCAF in 1943. The magazine has little in the way of
photos of Gander and contains mostly articles about RCAF personnel, who
were generally doing work related in some way with Ferry Command. It did
however have one item I thought worth showing, namely the movie list
for the RCAF theatre from 09 November to 09 December 1943. Just looking
the names of the actors and of the movies is a study not only of
Hollywood history but of the mood of the times, the stereotypes that
fashioned the modern democracies and the priorities of the moment.
Names like Michele Morgan, Susan Hayward, Roy Rogers and Humphrey Bogart
have a magic quality about them, while the movie titles such as “Mission
to Moscow”, “I escaped from the Gestapo” and “Seven Day Leave” describe
well the tourment of the the world of the 40’s.

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