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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1931
Page
4
Governor Murray grants parole to a gunman with an agreement to leave the state, highlighting a trend toward leniency under pardons and suspended sentences. The piece argues for limiting pardoning power and abolishing suspended sentences, cites banker Charles E. Mitchell on freedom and responsibility, and notes quotes from Flora Rose and John Barrymore on trends and identity.
An old Missouri village tale contrasts pre and post prohibition times. The village drunkard fades but widespread drinking grows, as social norms shift from stigma to acceptance. The piece reflects on change in attitudes toward alcohol and the ongoing wet and dry debate.
This reader feature explains the origin of the custom phrase How it began from convivial circles and Anglo Saxon bowls passed among guests. It invites readers to submit ideas and mentions a Sunday series in The News Globe for illustrated origins.
New York, Dec. 11 Thoughts while strolling No one can shrug like Willie Howard All my life I've wanted one of those short box pearl buttoned coats like Billy Clifford wore Peggy Joyce is still an eyeful They say Gloria's Michael Farmer hasn't all those reputed mil lions Fred Stone a Longmont Col boy who made good in the city None of the imitators give Shine on Harvest Moon the Nora Bayes touch Overheard What I want is a slick haired Lima gigolo named Carlos There's wholesome companionship at times among married performers who have trouped for years Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer for instance Also Eva Puck and Sam White and Yorke King Few orches tra leaders are so effacing as Lou Forman at the Palace He began at Minsky's E E Cummings's poetry makes me think of How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood Overheard crowd at an orange juice stand spiking drinks from a silver flask Sign in a cafe window No glamor but swell eats Louise Groody is a grand dancer but she's always trying to sing And Eddie Cantor should stick to blackface Lillian Lorraine in circulation again with a club at the Beaux Arts They come back on Broadway But come back to what I could work up an 18 karat droll over hot biscuits for dinner tonight Biblical prophecy of the thing feared coming upon one had two concrete Broadway victims recently Sophie Tucker fresh from British triumphs found herself on opening night at a picture palace with a whispering voice Laryngitis Everett Marshall after years of disappointing engagements stirred an audience to its feet and high huzzahs in the Scandals A week later he was out of the cast with throat trouble
All networks plan play by play coverage tomorrow with NBC and CBS hookups. Graham McNamee and George Hicks will announce for NBC, Ted Husing for CBS, WEAF key station, WABC CBS 11:45 A M start, station lists still incomplete.
Dawn slept contentedly while a grand problem remained unsolved. She felt hopeful that a fresh solution would come, and anticipated a return to New York with a new and alluring vision guiding her path forward.
In Austin a district court jury awarded Miss Maurine Jennings 23 part of the 20 000 damages sought in a suit against Southland Greyhound Lines Inc. She was a Southwest Texas State student when her car collided with a bus near Kyle. Her face was cut and marred in the crash. The jury answered 20 special issues in her favor, with total damages about half the requested amount.
Clues for horizontal and vertical crossword entries listed with numbers and partial phrases, including hints like head of an abbey and wax of a beehive style, plus scattered fragments and misaligned words. The page combines puzzle items with stray letters and garbled phrases.
In a bedtime tale, Aunty the young possum explores a hen house seeking eggs. He mistakes china eggs for real ones, struggles to bite them, and learns to distinguish true eggs by touch. He finally discovers two real eggs, feasting while Unc Billy waits outside. Copyright 1931 by T. W. Burgess.
A writer recalls how speak-easies near the Rialto signal show hits and flops. He notes anecdotes from Peter Arno's show and a table-topbed attendee. The piece features doctors debating immortality and a dance center on West 56th Street where aspiring Pavlovas train. It highlights James Barton, a famed stage bum portrayal, and ends with a Stuttgart Arkansas reader’s puzzled friendship query.
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