15 Aug 1937
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1937
Page
1
Gazette reporters tour Culver City studios visiting MGM and exploring the Hollywood lot. They observe daily work rather than glamour, meeting stars like Walter Pidgeon and Edna Mae Oliver while noting long hours, camera setups, and the push for realism in film production.
A Gazette reporter tours MGM Culver City sets for My Dear Miss Aldrich and The Bride Wore Red. Misidentifications aside, Dorothy Arzner directs from the camera boom while George Murphy confirms the tough work behind the scenes. Joan Crawford’s absence toward the gate limits coverage.
The passage describes O. O. Mintyre’s views on a wide range of topics from aviation, medicine, and a desertic coast to community efforts and regional ideas. It mentions an airplane port, new medical facilities with doctors and nurses, and a stretch of front repurposed as a beach. The text also references initiatives for continental influence and a broader European context.
Two college youths from California Richard Richards of Alhambra and Gordon Jeffers of Los Angeles are visiting Mrs. Emil Benesh in Cedar Rapids. They attend the University of Southern California on a scholarship and have a year’s leave to travel speaking before Rotary clubs. They plan to go to Europe to defray expenses and pursue public speaking as preparation for law careers.
The Missouri Synod Lutherans East of Iowa will hold the first Towa District East convention at Trinity Lutheran Church on First Avenue and Fourteenth Street W. Rev. P. L. Bornhoeft pastors the church. The event opens tomorrow and runs through Friday with ministers and lay members from eastern Iowa attending. Rev. Otto Nieting of Newhall will give essays on The Person of Christ each forenoon.
A group of Seaman's Union members travels 2500 miles in a 1925 Model T Ford giving talks from coast to coast. They plan Atlantic crossing, months in England and trips to France Germany Austria Italy and the Orient. They aim to speak at Rotary clubs before departures and cover topics like Capital and the CIO Internationalism vs Nationalism and Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee vows to fight the McCarran bill to shift air mail and air commerce regulation to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He dismisses the measure as unlikely to pass and defends keeping control in post office and commerce departments. The ICC committee argues aviation growth necessitates change for investors, labor, shippers, and carriers.
Orchard Meadow in East Williston New York, the late Will Rogers estate, is slated to become a community settlement for suburban dwellers.
Real estate men have divided the large Wheatley Ridge estate into quarter-acre plots where Colonial designed homes rise, preserving the early American country side feel of the former Rogers estate.
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