Hollywood fortune tellers loom over 1939 film world
Hollywood's occult craze draws astrologers, numerologists and self styled ministers into star affairs. Predictions touch marriages deaths and contracts, with figures like Norvell and Blanca Holmes shaping industry whispers.
Actress Gale Sonderegaard Wins Best Supporting Oscar
In her first film role Gale Sonderegaard wins the Academy Award for best supporting player for Anthony Ad verse. She came to Hollywood to be with director husband Herbert Biberman and has since played roles from hags to the glamorous drama instructress in Dramatic School. She joined a Shakespeare repertory troupe and spent a year in stock in Cleveland, delighted when Warner smiled and said Brynne, I was just wishing you'd drop by. Then he announced a payroll cut of $2000 a week and Foy began firing staff, starting with Manley P. Hall.
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Holmes
Arcane Church of Astrology
Hollywood
Manley P. Hall
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B Pictures
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Hall
Gale Sondergaard
Anthony Adverse
Herbert Biberman
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Dramatic School
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Brynne
Big Boss
Practical Nurse Seeks Work With Nursing and Housekeeping Experience
Applicant lists experience in housekeeping and practical nursing and offers reference at 307 N Lincoln St. Describes 10 years as first cook in cafes, hotels, and camps. Mentions wife and three daughters including two in hospital and wife recovering from surgery.
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American Bar May Seek Curb on Divorce Solicitation
The American Bar Association House of Delegates reviewed a proposal to make mail solicitation of divorce business by lawyers a crime. The committee urged a law with up to a $1000 fine and six months in jail, citing growing nationwide practice as a public ethics issue. Ohio State's H W Arant backed strong action amid growing leniency in divorce laws.
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Help Wanted Cleaners Seeks Hourly or Daily Work
Classified notice from L. O. Allen seeking paid cleaning work and offering references. Also an ad from Mrs. Milton Smith requesting housecleaning jobs by the hour or day with dial number 4711.
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Church Fund Is Enriched by Farm Laborer
In Shenandoah Indiana on Sunday anonymous $10 bills came in the First Christian Church collection plate. One envelope instructed redecorating the building. Pastor Rev. M. F. Lyeria said he knows the contributor but will not reveal his name, only that he is a month laborer on a farm.
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CHARLIE CHAN Tack Letters – Classified Help Wanted Ads
A collage of help wanted notices seeks roommates a worker a widow cook canaries exchange requests for a duplex share a housekeeper and a senior cook. Contacts include L Kennedy 604 Jackson St and Mabel Box 1543 Monahans Texas with various phone numbers.
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Monahans
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