Two Attractive Features Booked for Opening Week
Paramount opens with two new pictures This Is the Night and One Hour With You. Lily Damita Charley Ruggles Roland Young Thelma Todd Gary Grant Chevalier MacDonald Tobin directed by Lubitsch and praised by critics. A separate item notes former Senator Joseph S. France challenges Hoover for a Maryland meeting in a Republican bid.
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Richard Whiting
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Joseph S. France
Hoover
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Spanish Republic Launches War on Illiteracy
Madrid reports a bold campaign to cut illiteracy as Spain expands education spending. The Cortes approved 270 million pesetas for Public Instruction and Fine Arts, with 184,102,142 pesetas for primary instruction. Illiteracy stands at 45 percent, and in 23 years under the Monarchy, 7,000 new schools were created in one year of the Republic, half with teachers. By autumn 3,000 more schools will open, totaling 10,000 new schools in 18 months.
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Children Form Secret Organizations in Moscow District
In Frunze district Moscow investigators uncovered secret societies among schoolchildren aged around 12 to 15. Groups included up to 40 members, with activities ranging from disrupting classes to organized theft of overcoats for funding. School officials involved were removed amid suspicions of counter revolutionary influence.
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New York Historical Manuscript Inventory Planned
The New York State Historical Association will survey manuscripts in private and institutional hands outside New York City starting about June 1. Dr Dixon Ryan Fox says the active catalogue will take long and uncover much source material from attics attics, mills, churches, town libraries, and about a hundred local historical societies.
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New York State Historical Association
Dixon Ryan Fox
Boy in Red Sweater Saves Father From Bull
In Montesano Washington a 13 year old boy Warren Beckwith wearing a red sweater charged into a bull pen to rescue his father R Beckwith who was knocked down. The boy grabbed a chain attached to rings in the Jersey bull and, after dodging the animal, tightened the chain around a tree to restrain the bull and save his father.
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