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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1939
Page
9
Columnist notes Hollywood actors endure grueling schedules and sparse privacy while public sees only wealth glamor. Pat O’Brien and Errol Flynn exemplify the clash between on screen bravado and real life, with Flynn maintaining fitness and a yacht lifestyle amid public attention.
The Globe News Radio outlines KGNC programming across Wednesday through Thursday including The Sky Pilot Farm Flashes Peggy Anderson The Tune Jugglers and NBC shows Kay Kyser College of Musical Knowledge and Fred Waring. It lists times for news weather sports and musical entertainment with multiple hosted programs and orchestras.
A dense schedule lists Wiley and Gene at 6:00 PM, TSN 6:15 Sports Spotlights, and a long lineup of music acts and news segments. It notes actors Flynn and Warner Bros. ties, Hollywood life contrasts, and a wide array of orchestras and programs through late night, with program changes noted for last minute corrections.
Puzzle list yields a broad set of clues toward a celebrated opera star. Across entries hint at a famous soprano with lines like Her glorious voice and She was on a famed picture, while vertical clues suggest related terms from music, theater, and language.
Horace Jackson near Amarillo is reported much improved at home at 514 North Harrison Street after a gas well pit explosion. He was burned when a cowboy seated above lit a cigarette, igniting accumulated gas and blowing Jackson from the pit.
In New York on August 2, a parrot named Blackie and owner Dominick Palugi received a one day jail sentence for peddling without a license. Blackie perched on a cell bar and whistled My Time Is Your Time as Palugi ran a fortune telling business by selecting cards for patrons.
The listing traces a dense station schedule with multiple bands orchestras and radio plays. It names performers such as David Elman Paul Whiteman and Fred Waring plus shows like Amos Andy Lone Ranger and Dance Music Orchestra segments across several networks and time slots.
Airman Pedro Cagna and his mechanic died when their plane crashed in flames off Mazagan coast near Casablanca while en route from Rome to Lima with intermediate stops. The radio operator was injured. A separate note claims Tonto Natural Bridge near Pine and Payson, Arizona, hosts a farmed five-acre top with corn vegetables and fruit.
LONDON Aug 2 Lord Esme Howard of Penrith aged 75 Britain's ambassador to the United States from 1924 to 1930 died last night at his Surrey home after a lingering illness. As Sir Esme Howard he was ranked among the most distinguished envoys to America.
Valley City North Dakota August 2 report details Andrew Wilson a farmer who escaped serious harm after his overalls were caught in a tractor drive shaft. He woke to find only his shoes and shirt cuffs and the tractor a block away with the rest of his clothes. He sustained only a bump.
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