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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1932
Page
3
The Board of Review outlines criteria for subdivision plats including master plan conformity, highway provision, street continuity, turning space, grade limits, drainage, and required surveys. It encourages rough preliminary plans and informs that the Council may require data such as street profiles and topographic details.
Fox Films offers a real life drama After Tomorrow with Charles Farrell and Marian Nixon as lovers and mothers played by Minna Gombell and Josephine Hull. The cast includes William Collier Jr, William Pawley, Greta Granstedt, and Ferdinand Munter. Also shown are Border Law with Buck Jones and a news reel.
Sunday evening program lists two features at 30 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Blondell star in Union Depot while Adolphe Menjou headlines The Great Lover, offering a double bill for April 17.
Lew Ayres leads a drama of river life in Heaven on Earth adapted from Mississippi by Ben Lucien Burman. The plot follows a man believed to be the son of a steamboat captain who discovers his parents are poor white trash and returns to his community as a flood rages along the Mississippi. Ayres delivers an exceptional performance in this adaptation released for Monday and Tuesday showings.
A slate of films headlines the week with Bennett in The Common Law Dixon and Meighan in Cheaters at Play Fox in Strictly Honorable Stanwyck in Forbidden Gary Cooper in His Woman and Keaton in The Passionate Plumber providing a varied program for cinema audiences.
Canvassers for Bristol will meet in Memorial Building on Friday April 22 1932 at 730 pm to canvass property voters lists for the Special Financial Town Meeting. Personal property tax must be paid by April 26 1932 to qualify for voting. John W Church Town Clerk.
Capt. Arthur W. North describes a three month family expedition to Lapland. He outlines three classes of Laplanders nomad fisher and farmer sharing customs language and beliefs across Russian Norwegian Finnish or Swedish lands. They fear trolls and fairies and perform rituals to protect children and appease spirits.
Virginia Pope reports how a Hungarian dance sparks social unrest and crossover to America. Polka fever, dubbed Polkamania by Punch, features convulsions and rotary limb movements, overturning, in fashion, traditional forms as Celarius laments the shift.
The Bulgarian peasants are described as exceptionally diligent laborers whose life is physically demanding. They age quickly after forty, often becoming grandparents, yet they live longer and healthier than city dwellers. Sun and toil mar their looks, but they maintain a stoic attitude toward life and share generously while taking little for themselves.
The water buffalo or carabao of the Philippines is a smaller buffalo variant domesticated in India, used as a draft and farm animal in Asia. The Indian buffalo appears in many regions, including Europe for marshland farm work, while the American buffalo is a bison, not a true buffalo.
In the French and Indian War the alliance of Native tribes split. Most Algonquin groups backed the French, but the Six Nations of northern New York sided with the English, altering the balance of power in the conflict.
The article notes Westward Ho is a province in Ecuador in some versions and a city in Iowa in others. It states Maypures or Maipures is a real Colombian village on the Orinoco that gives its name to river cataracts.
A motivational maxim declares failure is only fatal if we let it discourage us. It calls mistakes chances to learn and notes falling does not hurt unless we refuse to rise again.
League of Nations (Collins & Aikman) bowlers won the YMCA league crown for a second straight year. Team members include H Newman Capt H Horner A Ethier E F Hibbert and H Hill. Benny Mansi top score 143 Babe Ethier top three string 369. High team single 543 and total 1515. Final standings and averages listed.
The Wire and Cable Division of United States Rubber Company joins a national movement with safety officials to help consumers identify cords meeting dependable standards. Cords often sacrificed on size lead to fires and injuries. new labeling by Underwriters Laboratories will appear every five feet on cords meeting the safety criteria.
Residential electricity users are urged to ensure cords on lamps and appliances carry clear identifying labels and to replace frayed worn or patched cords with safe dependable replacements to protect children.
The sunflower requires about a quart of water each day while a beech tree may need as much as eighty quarts in the same period.
A second capacity crowd attended St Michaels Brotherhoods closing minstrel show at the parish house Tuesday night. Fred Grantett directed the program praised for balance and musical arrangement with strong solos by Walter Wennerstrand Rev Anthony Parshley and the St Albans Quartette. The all male parish chorus and leading end men delivered well, while Mrs. Frank A. Rounds was the pianist and Bisbane’s Orchestra provided incidental music for the show and dancing afterward.
A fragmented list shows performers and song titles including Cubahola Glide All Kinds of Women and That’s Why Darkies Were Born with names Walter Wennerstrand George Hayes Vernon A Gray Rev Parshley and Allen Newman. closing chorus signals end of program by the quartet and entire company.
Last evening the third annual piano recital by Miss Mary E Pierce and pupils drew a large crowd at Grand Army hall. Providence talent Miss Isabelle F Ahearn and Mr Walter Orme assisted, with a varied program of duets solos trios readings and marches showcasing youthful skill and careful tutelage.
Bristol travels to Woonsocket for an afternoon game next Saturday. Battery will be Johnny Murphy and Jack Tucker. Although lineup is not final, stars Reginald Fiske and Cliff Cady are expected to start infield positions.
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