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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1932
Page
3
Due to Municipal Auditorium size and Wilbur C. Hawk, prices for Sir Harry Lauder’s Rundown show next Tuesday night, December 27, have dropped. Tickets now range from 65 cents to 1.65 dollars including tax, reflecting a big sale to fit every purse.
The Metropolitan Opera’s dean of villains Antonio Scotti, 66, announced his final appearance on January 20 after 33 years on the stage where he debuted locally. He said he is an old man and wants to retire before he breaks up.
The Tri-State Fair Association brings Sir Harry Lauder with a 30 artist company to Municipal Auditorium next Tuesday night December 27. Tickets range 1.50 and 1 downstairs 1 and 0.50 balcony with nearly 500 balcony seats. Maidie and Ray Blatherwick, from Dalhart and Amarillo, praised as entertainment stars, return from a Europe tour.
A vaudeville act led by Sir Harry travels with his orchestra. The tour reaches Amarillo and the Panhandle next Tuesday night two nights after Christmas with a hearty, singing comedian who rose from a Scots pit-boy to knighthood.
In Moscow Dec 204 Soviet Russia will skip Christmas as it has for 14 revolutions. Christmas is outlawed. most citizens see no holiday significance and the Greek Orthodox date of Jan 7 is noted for those who follow older traditions. A few Orthodox hold Jan 7 services.
An unidentified man died after plunging from an interurban viaduct in Houston while two companions, Earl Mueller a 16 year old from Luxemburg Missouri and Le Grande England 57 of New York, escaped a fast moving car by hanging from the trestle. A letter found on the body was postmarked Seattle Washington and signed Harold.
Report from Washington describes House Agriculture Committee work on a voluntary allotment plan for crops and livestock. Farmers would accept government set quotas with a bounty paid from a miller tax, aiming to curb oversupply and stabilize prices in the Roosev elt era.
Dallas fire crews answered a fifth alarm to battle a stubborn blaze in a vacant three story brick building for about ninety minutes. Damages were estimated at more than $50,000.
Exie Fife Creek Indian heiress shows improvement after carbon monoxide exposure that sent her to a hospital. A companion died from the poisoning on Sunday, according to her doctor.
Authorities report 11 cars of a Southern railway freight train derailed nearby with multiple injuries as responders cordon off the area. Fire crews and emergency personnel evacuate and secure the site while investigators assess the cause of the wreck.
Lieut. Louis Henry Hunte, a naval flyer, attributed his forced landing near the Marshall airport to fog. He escaped injury as the aircraft nosed over, with only property damage reported.
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