Summer Hostess Trials and Fortunes at a Luxury Hotel
Leslie Vance, a hotel hostess, navigates love, duty and a hidden past as Eric Sanders pressures her to abandon Tony. A family fortune collapses after past tragedies, linking her fate to the Orsini family and a risky romance amid Rocky Point’s social circle.
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Laslie Vanes
Star
Tony
Erika Derson
Erika
Eric Sanders
Munt Mardaway
Leslie
Eric
Munt
Hunt
Norah
Mary Blunt
Dorchester
America
Rocky Point
Huntleigh
Leslie Vance
Elsie
Presto
Father
Anthony
Orsinis
Madam Orsini
Vance
Moncey
Mary Pickford Eyes Dolly Madison Film Return
Hollywood talk about Mary Pickford exploring a Dolly Madison biopic with a focus on the First Lady’s vivacity. Mitzi Cummings supplied the manuscript as options float for MGM or other studios to cast Pickford. Meanwhile John Barrymore heads to The Lady with Red Hair with Warner Bros. Miriam Hopkins to star and Kurt Bernhardt set to direct.
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Ollywood
INS
Mary Pickford
Dolly Madison
Mitzi Cummings
Louis B. Mayer
Mary
M-G-M
Dolly
White House
America
John Barrymore
Warner Bros
John Drew
Leslie Carter
Belasco
Drew
John
Miriam Hopkins
Carter
Kurt Bernhardt
Bernhardt
Warners
At the Theaters Show New Releases Across Iowa State and Palace
Paramount presents Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. In Iowa George Raft and Ann Sheridan star in They Drive by Night and Wayne Morris with Rose Mary Lane in Ladies Must Live. State features Turnabout with Carole Landis Adolphe Menjou and Jean Hubbard plus Sandy is a Lady. Palace offers He Married His Wife with Joel McCrea Nancy Kelly and The Man From Dakota with Wallace Beery. Rialto showcases Heritage of the Desert with Donald Woods and Little Orvie with John Sheffield.
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Paramount
Greer Garson
Laurence Olivier
Iowa
George Raft
Ann Sheridan
Wayne Morris
Rosemary Lane
State
Carole Landis
Adolphe Menjou
Jean Hubbard
Turnabout
Baby Sandy
House Passes Bill To Boost Crop Loan Power
The House approved a bill adding 500 million dollars to the Commodity Credit Corporation lending power for 1940 crop loans. Officials say the current 900 million capitalization is nearly exhausted. The measure passed 248 to 195 and moves to the White House.
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House
Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
White House
Appointment of Agnes Roe Administratrix for Lucille Roe
Agnes Roe is named Administratrix of the Lucille Roe estate in Linn County Iowa. She was appointed on July 18 1940 and asks all debtors to pay and all creditors to file their claims with the Linn County District Court Clerk.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Lucille Roe
Towa
Cedar Rapids Hosts Ringling Bros Circus Amid rave acts
Cedar Rapids audiences enjoyed Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey performances with Art Springer narrating. The show featured three rings of feats, elephants, trained horses, aerial stunts, jugglers, and comic clowns as crowds cheered through near capacity attendance.
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Ringling Bros. and
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Cedar Rapids
Europe
United States
Alfred Court
Moduff
Tammany For Flynn Prompts Historic Bronx Political Shift
Edward Flynn 48 of the Bronx rose through precinct work to lead the Democratic National Committee and direct Roosevelt's third term campaign. He won support from half of Tammany Hall, which had once sought to exile him, reshaping the party’s mayoral loyalties and shaping 1930s New York politics.
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New York
Edward Flynn
Bronx
Democratic National Committee
Flynn
John P. O Brien
Joseph V. McKee
Recovery Party
O Brien
FH LaGuardia
Alfred E. Smith
Chicago
Roosevelt
F. D. Roosevelt
Eddie Flynn
Herbert H Lehman
United States
Heider Sells Lot in Mansfields First Addition
Clara L. Heider conveys to George H. Heider the west half lot 16 block 2 Mansfields First Addition. The deed references cash consideration of £1 and vas con dated July 23 1940.
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Clara L. Heider
George H. Heider
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