Sull ivan's Travels Foreword Promises Laughter At State Theater
A Paramount comedy foreword teases Sull ivan's Travels starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake opening Friday at State Theater with humorous hints about washing an elephant. The piece also notes The Man Who Came To Dinner at Paramount starring Bette Davis Ann Sheridan Monte Woolley and Jimmy Durante and highlights Frances Gifford's scented matches fad.
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Ullivan
Paramount
Sullivan
State Theater
Joel McCrea
Veronica Lake
Chester Morris
Hollywood
Bette Davis
Ann Sheridan
Monte Woolley
Jimmy Durante
the Devil
Daniel Webster
Edward Arnold
Walter Huston
Jane Darwell
Simone Simon
Gene Lockhart
Anne Shirley
Marlene Dietrich
Wallace Beery
Marjorie Main
Lewis Stone
Globe News
Amarillo
Paramount Theatre
Monty Woolley
the Paramount
OOKSQ Misfire as War Secret Keeps Soldiers Quiet
Henry McLemore critiques wartime leaks urging creation of the Office of Keeping Soldiers Quiet OOKSQ to curb chatter among service members. He jokes about leadership, suggesting a Vermont storekeeper or Melvyn Douglas, and notes spies use everyday places to gather info.
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Henry McLemore
San Francisco
Calif
Theovernment
Army
Navy
Los Angeles
San Diego
New Orleans
Australia
Army Etiquette Quiz From MANNERS T M
Test your knowledge of proper conduct with questions on letter writing to an employer, social invitations for a wife of a soldier, hotel register names, talking to resort diners, and sharing reading material with soldiers. Answer key and a guidance note from Presiding Bishop Henry George Tucker precede a prompt on service and leadership.
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T. M. Reg
U. S
Henry George Tucker
Virginia
United States weighs war reach as Japan builds in the East
The piece estimates Japanese forces in Malaya Singapore the Philippines Burma and other areas totaling about 400000 with a larger regional total of 2 million fighting men. It notes Allied forces a Dutch commander Helfrich and debate over convoy versus combat ships and warns of a looming Japanese push toward Java and possible expansion toward Timor New Guinea and Australia. It also reports a domestic clash between Jesse Jones and Ickes over aluminum plant power and a shift in decision making.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Oceania
Malaya
Singapore
Philippines
Burma
Europe
China
Manchukuo
Far East
Batavia
C. E. L. Helfrich
U. S
Britain
Java
United Nations
Soerabaja
Borneo
Celebes
Sumatra
Helfrich
Timor
New
Guiana
Australia
Torres Strait
Darwin
Sydney
New Guina
New Guiana
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Ickes
Federal Loan Agency
Jones
FLA
Aluminum Company of America
Army
OPM
Arkansas
Messina
N. Y
Washington State
ALCOA
Bonneville and
Coulee
Truman Committee
Mr. Ickes
ALCCA
Answers to Cracker Editorial Page Questions
Answers review on editorial page cover Stephen Foster lyric about Kentucky home Louisville is largest city Frankfort is capital governors appoint colonels in staffs Lexington same name as Lexington Massachusetts Centre College Danville famed for beating Harvard Praying Colonels quote by Dmitri Shostakovich on artists isolation and audience formation
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Stephen Foster
Kentucky
Louisville
Frankfort
Lexington
Mass
Centre College
Danville
Harvard
Crossword Puzzle Clue Grid From Today’s Paper
A printable puzzle listing across and down clues with placements for a horizontal and a vertical grid. Clues cover political terms animal names measurements verbs and common phrases suitable for a historical newspaper crossword.
Victoria and the Loyal Gift to Dorothy Thompson
An old age pensioner in Birmingham sends Dorothy Thompson a Victoria sovereign as a symbolic gift of friendship and shared democracy. The gesture, delivered via Hon. J. Smedley Crooke, reflects a plea for Europe’s democratic resilience and a hope that Thompson’s writings aid democracy in troubled times.
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Dorothy Thompson
A. B
Birmingham
England
Britain
Britannia
Victoria
J. Smedley Crooke
House of Commons
1930 stamp recalls 1905 revolution and czarist oppression
The 1930 stamp marks the first Russian revolution of 1905 as liberal petitions urged inviolability of person and rights while Czar Nicholas II failed to keep promises. On January 9 1905 thousands marched to the winter palace. troops killed about a thousand as revolts were crushed until 1917.
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Soviet Union
Nicholas II
Ikons
Nicholas
World War looming as U S readies for conflict
United Press reports Japan offers global mediation while Jesse Jones warns the U S is in war or near it and preparing. Roosevelt issues orders limiting commercial ships and aircraft from nearing designated bases in Pacific, Caribbean and Alaska within 96 miles, effective 90 days from February 14. The biblical verse appears at end.
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United Press
Japan
Jesse Jones
U. S
Roosevelt
Paciflic
Caribbean
Alaskan
Mystery House Leaning North Delights Oregon Tourists
ERNIE PYLE visits the House of Mystery between Grants Pass and Medford Oregon where a leaning 125 foot circle makes trees and people appear to tilt north. Guides use mirrors and optical tricks to show relativity like effects drawing scientists and high school teachers alike.
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Oregon
Grant's Pass
Medford
U. S. Highway 99
John Litster
Lister
House of Mystery
Charles Taylor
Mystery House
The Chicken Shack Success That Built a Real Estate Empire
Harry Clarke, once jobless at 58, created a new idea selling ten dollar down plots in Kennedale near Fort Worth. He slept in a shack, built a small sign business grew into a dashy office, sold 150 plots, owns 15 houses, and independence followed in seven years.
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East Weatherford Street
Fort Worth
Texas
Harry R. Clarke
Harry Clarke
Kennedale
Books in Review Highlights 1920s American Life
Ward Moore’s Breathe the Air Again examines American workers from 1920s Los Angeles to Chicago through Simon Epstein’s eyes, detailing their hopes and hates. Reynolds Convoy offers vivid reportage from an Atlantic crossing with literary recipes and public figures, while Johnston’s Action at Sea recounts the Sydney’s wartime voyage and engagements. De Forest’s Television surveys the rise of TV, and Modern Library issues Nostradamus, Crane, Babbitt, and Lincoln works.
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Ward Moore
Amereicana
Harpers
Los Angeles
Simon Epstein
Simon
Chicago
America
Quentin Reynolds
Random House
Atlantic
Reynolds
George Lamaze
Modern Library
Charles A. Ward
Stephen Crane
Bobby Clark Profile Highlights Broadway Jester’s Storied Career
Bobby Clark emerges as a celebrated Broadway jester famed for reviving Sheridan’s The Rivals. The veteran comedian, once part of a famed burlesque duo with McCullough, later dazzled as a Theater Guild star. Offstage he favors Shakespeare, welfare work, and park walks, while Archbishop Spellman praises his era’s sacrifices.
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United Press
Bobby Clark
America
Sheridan
Bobby
Theater Guild
Springfield
O. Bobby
Broadway
the Ramblers
Paris
Shuberts
McCullough
Clark
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Pat Smith
Albert McKinney
Charles Hughes
Clark Gable
Betty Grable
John Reynolds
Irvin Wall
Mary Ann Hall
Bill Jolly
Mary Jean Burkhalter
Myron Dorman
Betty Wallace
Dean Wright
Earl Crist
Robert Bigelow
Fred Brady
More McLemore
OOESQ
Vermont
Melvyn Douglas
John Brown
Mable Smith Brown
Rural Electrification Administration
Southeastern Power and Light Co
Harvey Couch
Old Arkansas
Dmitri Shostakovitch
F' Warden
U.S
Mexico
House of Vertical 2
Falkland Islands
East Indies
Manuel Ava Camacho
British Empire
Marx
Kipling
Nietzsche
Wagner
Tolstoy
Dostoievsky
United States
Lincoln
Whitman
Job
Ernie Pyle
Charles W. Eliot
National Resources Planning Board
Dale Carnegie
George H. Johnston
Houghton, Mifflin
Mediterranean
Steiermark
Lee de Forest
Dial
Dr. de Forest
Archbishop Spellman
Catholic Diocese of
New York
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