Theater and literary life in transition across New York
A broad survey of Broadway recovery and shifting power in the 1930s theater scene. Max Gordon emerges as a leading producer while old line houses fade, writers move to Hollywood, and critics face pressure amid a renaissance of new talent and tastes.
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New York
Brock Pemberton
Erlanger
Ziegfeld
Dillingham
Amés
Shuberts
Max Gordon
Courtney Burr
Dave Schooler
School Days Quiz Lost in Text Fragments
A fragmented school item presents three questions. Nicodemus is a Pharisee who visited Jesus at night. He brought myrrh and aloes and aided Joseph of Arimathea with the tomb. The Excelsior State is New York. Mufti denotes plain clothes worn by someone authorized to wear a uniform.
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Bill Robinson
New Yorker
Gene Fowler
Bojangles
Lenox Avenue
Raggedy Brune
Nicodemus
Jesus
Arimathaea
New York
Mufti
Longs Rise Tied To National Planning Push
A national planning board report calling for long range planning to raise living standards is linked to Huey Long’s 1936 presidential run. The piece argues Long embodies mass discontent and the danger or power he wields as a demagogic spokesman for desperate voters.
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National Planning Board
Huey Long
Louisiana
Delta
Senator Long
White House
Child Labor Debate Pushes States Rights Versus Nationalism
The article argues the child labor amendment tests the balance between localism and federal power. It recalls a Republican leader urging decentralization to avoid centralization and warns of government overreach as a broader political realignment unfolds. The piece hints at forthcoming discussion on reforms and party shifts.
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
Washington
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Lon Breaks News on Sunday Golf and Dinner Plans
Marian prepares dinner and flowers as Lon sulks through a long golf date with McSwain and friends. A later call from Silver reveals Lon is dining with the McSwains, delaying Marian’s guests and raising marital tensions in this 1934 soap opera scene.
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Lon Casad
Marian
McSwain
Lon
Silver Hendon
McSwains
Silver
Ian
Carrdoth
Alameda
Murphy
Doc
Jackson
Steeles
Len
Hero
Steele
Doctor Albert
Diablo
Anne
Nora Hondon
Nora
Cliff Hondon
New Fe
Garden of Eden
Silver Hondon
Cliff
Alfie
Jeanne Bowman
Health talk on tuberculosis and individual predisposition
The article explains that tuberculosis risk depends on individual constitution inherited from ancestors and the body's resistance. It notes that germs vary and require suitable soil to thrive, with some animal germs not affecting humans while others may adapt to different hosts.
Guiding Your Child Home Product Review
A家庭 oriented piece by Alice Clarissa Richmond discusses at home tutoring by mothers. It notes that concentrated individual teaching requires shorter study periods than a classroom, shaping both pupil and teacher. The article previews practical limits and considerations for at home guidance.
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Alice Clarissa Richmond
Chevrolet Dealers Attend Panhandle Sales Party
About fifty Chevrolet automobile dealers from the Panhandle attended the annual sales party yesterday. Speakers included W C Jones R B Stitzel of Oklahoma City and J E Johnson of Dallas with Stitzel identified as the zone manager. Aa is noted as a town in Sweden.
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Chevrolet
Panhandle
W. C. Jones
B Stitzel
Oklahoma City
J. E. Johnson
Dallas
Stitzel
Radium co-discoverer and puzzle clues in a historic slide
A mixed list of crossword style clues references radium discovery, indigo source, Congress term, and various word definitions. The fragment mentions a Great Scientist, a professor appointment, a 1906 death, and North Carolina notes amid scattered puzzle entries.
Word Builder and Word Play in a Puzzle Style
Puzzle text shows a word building game where each new word adds one letter to the earlier letters. It features a candid Congress candidate remark and examples using words like AT EAT BEAT TABLE STABLE, illustrating how letters rearrange to form new words.
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Congress
Gracie
Johnny
Winter Plans and a Hawk Over the Green Meadows
Danny and Nanny debate where to spend the coming winter and settle on the cornfield as a potential home. They spot Roughley the hawk perched in an elm, then watch as it dives for a mouse, noting the hawk as a patient watcher on the Green Meadows.
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Honker
Goose
Mrs. Quack
Paddy the Beaver
Green Forest
Johnny Chuck
Nimbleheels
Jumping Mouse
Bobby Coon
Striped Chipmunk
Danny
Nanny Meadow Mouse
Nanny
Marian
Lon
McSwain
Anne
Ian
Blaine
Wylie
Waki
Brown
Roughley
Roughley the Hawk
Green Meadows
T. W. Burgess
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Gene Howe
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Associated Press
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Ebecgrensee
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Globe
News-Globe
MAIL
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Bedtime
Thornton W. Burgess
C. O. McIntyre
McIntyre
Thyra Sumter Winslow
Hollywood
Broadway
H. T. Webster
Cincinnati
Count de Bries
Paris
Webster
Grandin Road
Roughing
Hawk
Pierre’s
Lower Park Avenue
Irvin Cobb
Henderson, Ky
Theodore Ivy Irving Preston Miller Houston Brown Cobb
Will Rogers
Peggy Hoyt
Aubrey Eads
Tony
Peth Leary
Boston
Florence Ryerson
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
the Globe
Glenn Frank
By William Ferguson
United States
Marian Gordon
Lilith Again
Sweden
US Congress
Fie
Fagle’s Nest
Ignaz Moscicki
Word Builder
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