Loy and Taylor Star in Lucky Night at Paramount
Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor headline Lucky Night a light comedy at Paramount. Taylor plays Bill Overton a lively young man who learns the value of industry for love as Loy leaves a wealthy home to seek a new fate. Henry ONeill and Douglas Fowley support with a musical featurette and cartoons.
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Myrna Loy
Robert Taylor
Paramount
Taylor
Bill Overton
Ant
Bill
the *Hopper
Myrna
Miss Loy
Henry O'Neill
Douglas Fowley
George
Scared Crows
Paramount News
Let's Explore Your Mind by Albert Edward Wiggam
An excerpt from Wiggam's piece discusses the limits of science in answering moral questions and the balance between individual rights and societal needs. It also touches on gendered skills, dog intelligence, and letter writing styles, noting a Farm Credit Administration course in Washington for effective correspondence.
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Milton Hall
Farm Credit Administration
Washington
How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On $12 a Week
Meal plan targets a five-member household with two adults and three children for about $12 weekly. Daily menus cover juices, eggs, beef, vegetables, breads, desserts, and beverages with specific portioned recipes and costs. Recipes include Buttered Zucchini Squash, Pimiento Cheese, Grapefruit Avocado Salad, Baked Stuffed Eggplant, and Chocolate Cocoanut Cake, plus guidance on milk and butter allowances and nutrition aims.
Darryl Horsfall Featured in Code of the Secret Service
Darryl Horsfall a longtime Cedar Rapids community actor appears in Code of the Secret Service at the Iowa theater under the name Stevan Darrell. He has a speaking part as a counterfeiting gang member. Horsfall previously acted in Broadway Whistling in the Dark and Counselor at Law before leaving Cedar Rapids about two years ago.
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Darryl Horsfall
Code of the Secret Service
Iowa Theater
Stevan Darrell
Mr. Horsfall
Whistling
Cedar Rapids
Sally Haines files fault divorce from Bert Wheeler
Sally Haines declared Friday a fault divorce from Bert Wheeler, the screen comedian, ending their marital life in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
INS
Sally Haines
Bert Wheeler
Screen Funny Man
Notice of Appointment of Executor Mary Pus tecska Estate
The undersigned Robert Dudek on May 19 1939 was appointed and qualified as Executor of the estate of Mary Pus tecska late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment. Those having claims will file them duly authenticated in the office of the Clerk of Linn County Iowa District Court.
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AML
State of
Iowa
Linn County
Mary Pustecska
Linn Coun
Theaters Run New Films Across Cities
Paramount shows Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor in Lucky Night. Iowa screens The Mikado with Kenny Baker Jean Colin and Martyn Green. Code of the Secret Service stars Ronald Reagan. Pygmalion features Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. On Trial stars Margaret Lindsay and John Litel. Palace presents Room Service and Up the River with Preston Foster. Rialto offers Mystery Plane with John Trent and Marjorie Reynolds and Outlaws of Sonora with the Three Mesquiteers.
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Paramount
Myrna _ Loy
Robert Taylor
Iowa
Kenny Baker
Jean Colin
Martyn Green
Code of the Secret Service
Ronald Reagan
Pygmalion
Lessie Howard
Wendy Hiller
Margaret Lindsay
John Litel
Palace — Marx Brothers
Preston Foster
Phyllis Brooks
Rialto
John Trent
Marjorie Reynolds
Sonora
Three
Mesquiteers
Peshawar Mission Entangles British Officers and Hadji Plots
Flying Officer John Vere Vaughan is captured in India with Major Hazelrigg unmasked as a British secret service agent. Wendover in disguise tailing Bailitzin. Sybil Ffoulkes pursues him as intrigue widens. An American correspondent Sylvanus H. Stuyvesant plays spy while tensions rise in Peshawar with Mohmand rumors and a strike in the bazaar.
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John Vere-Vaughan
Briish
India
Gibrara Fort
Hussein
Hazelrigg
British
Secret Service
Richard Wendover
Sybil Ffoulkes
Wendover
Shere Khan
Bailitzin
Sybil
Giltraza
Peshawar
Mazelrigg
Bazaar
Charsadda
Hadji
Turangzai
Safed Kot
Sirkar
Hadjai
Charhadda
Inayatullah Hussein
Chimnai
Kurnai
Sylvanus H. Stuyvesant
Lakeside Drive
Chicago
United American Press
Kabuli Gate
Mussulman
Badishar Gul
Mohmand
Sahib
Khyber
Shabkadr
Corps of Guides
Marden
Mr. Stuyvesant
Moussafa Shah
Madeleine Carroll Plans Divorce From Capt Philip Astley
Hollywood star Madeleine Carroll said she would seek a divorce from Capt. Philip Astley, a London real estate broker she married in 1931, while working on the Paramount film Are Husbands Necessary.
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Hollywood (Ap
Madeleine Carroll
Philip Astley
London
Libel Suits by Doherty and Cities Service Dismissed
Kansas City Star libel suits filed in 1931 by Henry L. Doherty and the Cities Service Gas company seeking 54 million dollars were dismissed in state courts in Kansas City and Topeka. I N Watson, Star attorney, also dismissed a related federal libel action against Doherty.
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Kansas City
Henry L. Doherty
Cities Service Gas Company
Kansas City Star
Topeka
Kan
I. N. Watson
Star
Doherty
Mary Pickford Fortune Rumors Stir Hollywood Wealth Talks
Gossip column outlines Pickford wealth including Beverly Hills land 60 acres United Artists stake and theaters interest with total between 15 and 20 million dollars. Also notes Carole Lombard earnings, Thalberg motto, and industry ownership shifts affecting stars.
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Ollywood
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
Amny
Beverly Hills
United Artists Studio
United Artists Corporation
United Artists Theaters
B of America
Mary
Pickford
America
Carole Lombard
H’yuh
Carole
Imitation Jewelry and Personalities Spotlighted
Hollywood’s profitable by product is imitation jewelry says H Crouch dean of the trade with a staff over twenty. Ginger Rogers is noted as a syncopation fan with Bach’s Concerto in D Minor her favorite musical number. Parkyakar kus, a citrus culturist, prizes a grafted tree yielding seven fruit varieties. Fred McMurray is described carving small wooden horses as a hobby.
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Hollywood
H Crouch
Ginger Rogers
Parkyakarkus
Fred McMurray
Anna Neagle to Return to London for Queen Victoria Scenes
Ollywood stars gripe about typecasting but Anna Neagle remains England's top screen star. After finishing her current RKO lead, she will go back to London for a small role in a film shot there. A few Victoria scenes are needed and fans won’t accept substitutes for the queen.
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Bing Crosby
Bette Davis
la Belle Bet
Laurence Olivier
John Carradine
Jean Arthur
Lone Star
Greer Garson
Olympe Bradna
Ollywood
Anna Neagle
England
Miss Neagle
RKO
London
Queen Victoria
Victoria
MGM Babes in Arms Scene Echoes Palace Theater Gossip
In a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production from the Babes in Arms set, a scene depicting the old Palace Theater in New York unfolds. Vaudeville star Charles Winninger, newly informed he has a son, hears the whispered news ripple through the orchestra as filming continues.
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Fong
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Palace Theater
New York
Charles Winninger
Close Calls Mark Squalus Salvage Start
Three navy divers escaped injury as minor mishaps and delays marred week two of Squalus salvage near Portsmouth New Hampshire. John Sibitzky was swept overboard but returned to deck by venting his air. R J Agness lost his line and surfaced late. Divers Fiedler and Ross had air filled suits that shot them to the surface from ninety feet.
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Portsmouth
N. H
John Sibitzky
R. J. Agness
Navy
Roland Fiedler
H. W. Ross
Pathetic In Her Efforts To Remain Young
Advice column excerpt discusses a married woman seeking youth and admiration and a reader asking about a breakup after a boyfriend reveals love for another girl. The response says the relationship is over and suggests accepting the verdict and being grateful the truth emerged before marriage.
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Miss Manners
Dear Miss Manners advice column misinterpreted evening visit
A reader asks how to handle gossip after visiting a boyfriend's house for supper and claims she stayed all night. Miss Manners counsels prudence, urges denying rumors minimally, and advises moving on with better future behavior to avoid further scandal.
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Miss Manners
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