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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1930
Page
5
The 102 Amarillo Claude and nearby scouts will gather at 7 30 PM at Central Presbyterian Church for a handicraft exhibit planned by the Hyena patrol. The display will feature windmills waterwheels pencil holders willow whistles ash trays cooking sets paper knives nogins toma hawks bows and arrows and fire sets. Scout executive M J Paul will oversee the event.
Mr. Paul will conduct the games and urges attendees to wear old clothes for tonight’s strenuous school games. Dr. D. D. Sumrall will lead new songs and C. B. Johnson will show reels filmed by him at the annual Boy Scout Field Day meet.
Hollywood Calif May 20 Most towns have a circus once a year but Hollywood has one year round. The piece notes a constant display of odd characters in the film capital and mentions Al as part of the description.
Copeland runs a bona fide circus with 800 animals and 1200 reserve performers to supply studios for circus pictures and on set beasts. Though business eases now, he recalls peak demand days when every act from trained fleas to five ring shows was needed.
A film crew sends a show on tour during summer. The task includes completing the repro of a nineteenth century circus for the picture Swing High. Lloyd Hughes is warned to avoid discussing fake stunts with the actor. Donald Crisp directed a scene with bullets popping near Hughes in a car windshield.
In a film sequence gangsters fire around actor Hughes as Director Crisp hides and shoots from unseen angles. Crisp, a former Boer War sharpshooter, uses precise shots to prove his realism for the action scene cited by James Gleason in recalling early days.
The article notes a trical firm still owes one day’s pay to a worker. It recalls that at age 15 Jim quit after a day’s work fixing a light in a mortuary and briefly saw a dead body. Mrs Nina Carlton visited Wichita Falls over the weekend with relatives.
John M. Spelman of Dallas B. J. Rupert of Austin and Floyd Potter of the University of Texas were designated by Secretary of State Jane Y. McCallum to pass upon automatic voting machines under the state law. The counties of Dallas Harris Bexar and Tarrant may use such machines if they apply. No county has requested certification yet.
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