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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1931
Page
4
Ruth Chatterton shines in The Magnificent Lie playing a cafe entertainer in New Orleans. She sustains a vivacious yet tragic arc, weaving verve with dramatic depth as a wager dupes a wooing lumberman into believing he loves the wrong woman.
The piece praises Miss Chatterton for a vivid performance in a tale of love and deception. It notes Ralph Bellamy making his screen debut with strong promise and Stuart Erwin surprising as a capable dramatic actor in this notable movie.
A group of 25 Scout Bugle and Drum Corps members aged 12 to 16, led by Assistant Scoutmaster Erasmo Mancini and Drum Major Virgil Arruda, rehearse at the Hope Street Scout building for the Eastern States Exposition Junior Music Festival in Springfield Massachusetts. The corps, practicing marching moves and tunes, has paraded town streets and aims for a strong Springfield showing. Members include jugglers John Abenante Manuel Cardoza Domenie Capone Frank Ruggeiro Maurice Smith Jr Ralph Matrone Theodore Carmone Paul Castighto Gerald Burns Domenie Di George Edward Alles Sandra James Silvia Michael Cariglio Domenie Ruggeiro Edward Lynch Manuel Simmons William Hogan Drummers Edward Laves Ras mond Bisbane Padward Becedan Lous Romano Domeme Puva Bass Drum Wailham Head Joouns Dilaura carrer Cymbals Joseph Visvenzto.
Miss Norman Mathewson, 25, a Providence laboratory technician and Bristol native, married Fyerett B Nelson, a Providence teacher, in the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City. The couple obtained a license at the Municipal Building earlier Monday. Mrs Nelson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Mathewson, graduated from Colt Memorial High School in 1922 and attended Pembroke College, Brown University, and was active in local social circles.
J H Donnelly of Germantown Pa drove a coupe north on Gerry Road during a late Tuesday rainstorm. He braked on a curve at Wood and Hope streets and the vehicle skidded into a ditch. A local garage wrecker pulled it out. the car was only slightly damaged and no injuries were reported.
Exhibition features early Near Eastern artifacts from Tepe Gawra including the oldest pottery, a copper frying pan with original handle, a goat seal, an ibex seal, alabaster animal figures, a painted 3000 B C chalice, animal figurines and amulets, a cosmetics set, a bronze casting mold and a stone paint palette. Dr Ephraim Speiser notes the finds show advanced design and mark the shift from pottery to bronze fueled changes in life.
The United States Geographic Board, as final arbiter of geographical name spellings, influenced by post office practice, ruled in 1911 that Pittsburgh should be official spelling. It reversed the 1891 Pittsburg decision, citing the original borough seat from 1794 as key evidence.
A moss rose legend recounts an angel fleeing sin and misery and finding shelter under a rose. He blesses the rose as thanks for shelter, and leaf by leaf moss grows around the stem creating a cradle for future blooms as a sign of divine love.
Captain Richard Ranger of trans oceanic radiophotograph fame invents the electric pipeless organ. It is pipe and reed free and uses electrical switches tone generators and amplifiers. Sounds are produced in groups of alternators in simple ratios controlled by one motor and amplified to speakers when keys are pressed.
The text traces fire insurance back to the Great Fire of London in 1666. It notes several firms formed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, some surviving today. In the United States the Philadelphia Contributionship was organized on April 18, 1752 and patterned after London’s Hand-in-Hand.
A boy Ted and his mother and sister go to a downtown store where a salesman asks the sister's age. Ted says he does not know and asks his mother if she knows the sister's age. The scene highlights the interaction and the mother's attempt to answer.
Excavation work for the new Colt High School will begin within days. Norcross Brothers secure the contract and will operate from a 30 by 20 foot, nine foot high office at the northwest corner of the lot.
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