Reading list of popular books and authors
Cedar Rapids readers are listed with notable works from Hemingway Steinbeck and others. The compilation cites titles such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Grapes of Wrath alongside authors Hemingway Steinbeck Cather Rawlings and Lindbergh. The list reflects library and bookstore recommendations of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wiswell
Kenneth Roberts
Sapphira
Willa Cather
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Nina Fedorova
John Steinbeck
Green Was
My Valley
Richard Llewellyn
Marjorie Rawlings
Lloyd Douglas
Kitty Foyle
Christopher Morley
Heaven
Percival Wren
Random Harvest dominates best sellers and film rights
James Hilton's Random Harvest hits second printing after its Thursday release with 55 000 orders MGM buys film rights and Ronald Colman is tipped for Charles Rainier The piece notes the novel's suspense and English sensibility and compares it to Mr Chips and Test Horizon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Random Harvest
James Hilton
Ronald Colman
Charles Rainier
Little, Brown
MGM
Mr. Chips
Rainier
Hilton
England
Ireland
E.N.H
Little, Brown and Co
Radio music war and public demand for tunes
The Record Book notes a New Year radio music war as listeners seek variety beyond broadcasters choices. Mr Public will look elsewhere for his favorite tunes and new songs in a long battle over what gets airplay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Public
Local Bridge Groups Host Several Weekday Parties
Wyoming social clubs held multiple events this week. Mrs Guy Wolfe hosted a Five Hundred party with three tables and prizewinners named Mrs Fred Buckholtz Mrs Henry Hansen and Mrs Elmer Buckingham. Other gatherings included Thursday bridge at Mrs August Hansens and a Diana Fret club dinner led by Mrs Paul Levsen with prizes to four members. Past Matrons met for dinner led by Mrs Johnny Thomsen and Dora Thomsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Wolfe
Fred Buckholtz
Henry Hansen
Elmer Buckingham
August Hansen
Paul Levsen
Diana Fret Club
John Holub
Paul Rohwedder
Meinhardt Thomsen
Chris Eichhorn
Frank Pealer
Johnny Thomsen
Dora Thomsen
R. B Pollock
Otto Rohwedder
Claude Sears
Leon Coleman
Charles Marshall
William Peck
Joe Allen
T. J. van Dyke
Raymond Gar~side
Evelyn Ravenscroft
E. R. Marshall
Priscilla Club
R. B. Pollock
Emelyn Wickstrom
Progressive Study Club
TATTLE-TALES NOTES HI KAPPA KAPPA SORORITY ON CAMPUS
The Dee Cosmos item recalls HI KAPPA KAPPA on the Alabama State College for Women campus. It welcomes girls 68 inches tall or taller with several charter members six feet high. Members reportedly pledge to call classmates under six feet “shrimps.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee Cosmos
HI Kappa Kappa Sorority For
Alabama State College For Women
Roby Hickok Visits Local Family Related to Quiz Kids
Roby Hickok spent a day with Dr and Mrs Charles T Hickok during a Chicago trip tied to Quiz Kids. The 8 year old Gerard Darrow, a star of the show, is discussed amid curiosity about former mayor LaGuardia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gerard
LaGuardia
Chicago
Adier Planetarium
Art Institute
Hall of Man
Rosenwald Museum of Science and Industry
Field Museum
Roby Hickok
Charles T. Hickok
Roby
Gerard Darrow
Mayor Laguardia
Easy Aces Club Hosts Bridge Afternoon Prizes Awarded
Miss Anne Glaza of 1347 E Avenue NE entertained members of the Easy Aces Bridge club Thursday afternoon. Prizes were won by Mesdames Rhuben H Leinbaugh Helen Harris and Glaza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Glaza
E Avenue NE
Easy Aces Bridge Club
Rhuben H. Lein‘baugh
Helen Harris
Glaza
Calendar of events around Cedar Rapids and region
A list of upcoming events across Iowa cities for Monday to Sunday including music concerts lectures dances and sports. Notable entries include Waldo Peirce exhibit at Cedar Rapids Public Library Art Gallery and Roosevelts birthday ball in Cedar Rapids with Jacques Jolas music at 4 pm. Also listed are a piano solo with Guiomar Novaes in Davenport and a candle light Civic theater event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Waldo Peirce
Art Gallery of Public Library
Angel
Gus Sonnenberg
Memorial Coliseum
Davenport
Guiomar Novaes
Tri-City Symphony Orchestra
Masonic Temple
Cedar Rapids—Young Men's Bureau
Milk Fund
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Public Library
Waterloo
Waterloo Civic Chorus
East High School
L and
Jacques Jolas
van Vechten Shaffer
Iowa City
C A Elvehjem
American Chemical Society
Fayette
Iowa
Upper Iowa University
Cedar Falls
Teachers College
Civic Theater
Ace
Open house honors from Hollis Wall in service
Mrs Charles D Wail hosted an afternoon event Sunday where Hollis Wall, a Tau Kappa Epsilon sweetheart pin recipient, called from the Philippines Islands with fraternity brothers Bob Norris Chris Bates Ward Long and Bill Long. The Weiland family planning a winter motor tour south with Mrs DL Holley of Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D Wail
Ninth Avenue SE
Hollis Wall
Jon
Pin Hollis
Prippine Islands
Bob Norris
Criss Bates
Ward Long
Bille Long
W O Weiland
Second Avenue
Bs Motor
DL Holley
Waterloo
Florida
Calfornia
Tuesday Study Club Meeting and Birthday Observed
The Tuesday Study Club meets with Mrs W L Paxson at 841 Seventh Avenue SE for an afternoon program starting with roll call. Delzell plans to read In the Steps of AI see the Conqueror by Laws. Mrs Mary Hoover celebrates her eighty eighth birthday with a surprise party by her daughter Mrs A Beecher at 1502 Caerve. Refreshments are served, and a social hour follows. Also noted is a Social Fity gathering Wednesday at 1 pm for a luncheon hosted by Mrs Craree at 1215 First Avenue E. Mercy Auxiliary reports a hospital sewing meeting Wednesday at 1 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Lawrence
Marty Russell
Babbitt
Malty
Beryl
Russell
Marty
Little, Brown and Company
W L. Paxser
Seventh Avenue SE
Delzell
Mary Hoover
A. Beecher
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Sonja Henie
Lin Yutang
John
Coolidge
Busch Quartet
David Hall
Hall
Frederic Ramsey, Jr
Charles Edward Smith
Smith
Darrell
Jean Witmer
Brazil
Vera Kelsey
Miss Kelsey
Punk and Wagnalls
Bill Shirer
Berlin
Columbia Broadcasting System
United States
Germany
Alfred Knopf
Bill
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Winston Churchill
London
Nation
Publishers’ Weekly
Grant Wood
Hemingway
Treasury of World's Great Letters
Richard Sneed
Abingdon-Cokesbury
Towans
Methodist
Shenandoah
Frances Maule
Funk & Wagnalls
Ralph Ingersoll
Simon and Schuster
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Kensington
J. C. Lindsley
Fourteenth Street
C. E. Simpson
Leila Gossett
William Kirwin
Kingdom
Charles J. Bready
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Owen Faires
J. A. Yessler
J. W. Bryan
Q. E. Cress
Forrest Ackley
James Gallagher
Miss Coleman
Mount Vernon
Charles L. Hargrave
Cornellian Mothers’ Club
Doris Miller
Johnson Avenue NW
Eleanor Beach
Naomi Circle
the Record Book
Wanda Montz
By Jan Valtin
Prekaki
Commanist International
Finland
Hamburg
Sweden
Norway
Hitler
Stalin
Sanfords
KODAK
Svuiicht
Sanford
Wyoming
Gazette
Richard M. Miller
Alvin W. Allen
St. Louis
Junior League of
Association of Junior Leagues of America
Miller
Allen
Tattle-Tales
Britain
Wendell Willkie
Anthony Eden
Charles H. Brittin
Monday Shakespeare Club
London News
Middle Temple Hall
White Cross Society
Addison J. Ramsey
Rhme
Herbert C Ring
Lincolnshire
Second
Janpard
Miss Glaza
Montrose
First Congregational Church
Re. James M Gillis
Catholic Daughters of America
Wendell Chapman
Coe Chapel
Roosevel
Verseus Coe
James Milikan
Iowa Union
BOONE
Dubuque
Longview Sk
Weilands
Oxford League
St James’ Methodist Church
T C Collister
Carolyn Hood
Margaret Allen
Earl Kee
Ruth Appleby
Doris Preston
George Vavra
Vavra
Colister Sered
Rex
Collister
Kermit Byerly
Donald Appleby
Marton Allen
Mary Beth Collister
Phyllis Hermann
Ruth Klepach
Dorothy Turdik
Don Jones
George Kanellis
Jack Lankow
Ralph Lawrence
VRS
Paxson
Lpr
Craree
First Avenue
Mercy Auxiliary
Mercy Hospital
the Hospital
Mexico
John F Wallace
Des Moines
Sara Park Salon
3Rd St. SE
Dial
Navy
Revlon
the Killian Company
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