Bermuda Trip Deception Tangles Malda and Wallis
Malda Linn a New York heiress wins a nine day Bermuda trip under Matilda McCabe s name and assumes the alias for the voyage. Wallis Kane another winner drives a milk route as the pair navigate complications with dancer Asman and a rift over a late return. Mrs Sweetman intervenes as Maida s troubles surface and Wallis confronts Aymon about the previous night s events.
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Sandpflis
Malda Linn
New York
Bermuda
Matilda McCabe
Alda
Matilda
Wallis Rane
Asman
Malda
Wallis Kane
Hamilton
Aymon
Wallis
Tin
Kane
Maida
Theaters Show New Releases Across Cities
Paramount features Ronald Colman Idi Lupino and Walter Huston in The Light That Failed Iowa shows The Invisible Man Returns with Sir Cedric Hardwicke John Sutton Nan Grey Five Little Peppers at Home Edith Fellows State presents Geronimo with Preston Foster Ellen Drew Andy Devine Boris Karloff Margaret Lindsay Palace hosts Brother Rat with Priscilla Lane Wayne Morris Charlie Chan at Treasure Island Rialto screens Edith Fellows Five Little Peppers Tim McCoy Texas Wildcat Strand pairs Wayne Morris Claire Trevor in Valley of the Giants and King of Chinatown with Anna May Wong.
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Paramount
Ronald Colman
Idi Lupino
Walter Huston
Iowa
Invisible Man
Sir Cedric Mardwick
John Sutton
Nan Grey
Edith Fellows
Geronimo
Preston Foster
Ellen Drew
Andy Devine
Boris Karloff
Margaret Lindsay
Palace
Brother Rat
Priscila Lane
Wayne Morrs
Charlie Chan
Treasure Island
Rialto
Tim McCoy
Texas
Wayne Morris
Claire Trevore
Agriculture predicts more milk cows on farms in 1940 41
The Agriculture Department said further increases in the number of milk cows on American farms are expected during 1940 and 1941. The total cows on farms reached 25,344,000, up one percent from a year earlier.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
How Family Can Eat Well On 12 a Week Menus
The article presents a family of five menus aimed at $12 weekly, detailing a round steak roll dish and accompanying meals. It blends cost‑saving cooking with nutrition, listing ingredients and method while noting the health implications of displacement and urging medical advice for related headaches.
Autointoxication and defecation misbeliefs debunked
A boy visits a quack museum, later learns physiology hygiene and pathology, and rejects autointoxication myths. The author argues there is no rectal absorption or excretion delay and that headaches from constipation stem from distension or worry.
Health Q and A on anemia and cosmetic eyelid droop
Reader asks about headaches and possible anemia and about clothing for children in winter. Answers note anemia rarely causes headaches, offer monograph purchase and home iron tonic recipe, discuss eyelid droop not nutrition related, and suggest a plastic surgeon or ophthalmologist for diagnosis and possible correction with caveats about fees.
Pleasantly Spooky The Invisible Man Returns At Iowa Theater
The Invisible Man Returns plays to a packed audience at the Iowa theater continuing through Monday. Nan Grey shines as the leading lady with Sir Cedric Hardwicke Alan Napier Cecil Kellaway and Vincent Price in the cast. The review praises the London setting and the British players while noting Edith Fellows and Dorothy Ann Leese draw audience interest. The piece mentions a copper mine tale and a film montage of boxing highlight reels with Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard. The Capitol flag is noted to fly 24 hours daily and is replaced every six weeks.
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Iowa Theater
Nan Grey
Cedric Hardwicke
Alan Napier
Spears
London
Cecil Kellaway
Scotland Yard
Vincent Price
Edith Fellows
Dorothy Ann Leese
Jack Dempsey
Jess Willard
S.M
Hollywood Buzz on Jagger Holden and Arizona casting
Dean Jagger signed to play Brigham Young in a 20th Century Fox film after tests and Zanuck approval. William Holden lands the role opposite Jean Arthur in Arizona for Columbia, a two million dollar production built near Tucson. Rumors swirl about Brenda Marshall romance, Franchot Tone linked to Seven Sinners, and Marlene Dietrich's return to work after Ciro's.
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Ollywood
Dean Jagger
Brigham Young
Jagger
New York
Darryl Zanuck
George Abbott
20Th Century-Fox
Ethel Barrymore
Paramount
Henry Hathaway
Jessey Ruggles
Arizona
Jean Arthur
William Holden
Scarlett O'Hara
Guy Cooper
Randy Scott
Joel McCrea
Columbia
Tucson
Bill
Hollywood
Brenda Marshall
Franchot
Joe Pasternak
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene
Ciro’s
Vernegal Blonde Star Collapses Amid New MGM Test
Hollywood chatter reports Karen Vernegal collapses after an American screen test at MGM. She was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon hospital for emergency appendectomy. Irving Asher introduces her as England's oomph girl and potential glamour star in his British pictures. Unfortunate operation ends test.
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Maida
Bermuda
Sweetman
Aymon
Wally
Betty Suarez
Stockton
Gracie Allen
Gracie
Betty
Eve Lenore Hill
Fort Worth
Claire Trevor
Little Trevor
Bert Lytell
Lombardi, Ltd
Lytell
Hollywood
Karen Verne
Irving Asher
M-G-M
The
Cedars of Lebanon
England
Asher
First Mrs Burleson Sent To Asylum For Observation
Circuit Judge G Duncan Bellinger ordered May Walker Burleson, Galveston Texas matron who killed her successor as wife of a U S Army colonel, confined to the South Carolina state hospital for mental diseases for a 30 day observation. Her attorneys said Dr Eugene Payne Columbia health officer ruled she was of unsound mind.
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Columbia
S. C
G. Duncan Bellinger
May Walker Burleson
Galveston
Tex
South Carolina State Hospital
Light That Failed on Screen at Paramount Theater
Review notes Kipling tale The Light That Failed appears at Paramount with Ronald Colman Walter Huston and Ida Lupino in a film praised for dramatic scenes but judged old fashioned amid modern war propaganda. Film includes Paramount News color cartoon Harvest Time and Northward Ho.
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Paramount Theater
Kipling
Paramount Pictures
Ronald Colman
Walter Huston
Ida Lupino
Paramount News
W.M
Cowles Papers Win Promotion Awards
NEW YORK AP The Des Moines Register and Tribune won Editor and Publisher’s silver loving cup for 1939 all around newspaper promotion. The Minneapolis Star Journal took the second award. Owned by the Cowles family, the cup requires three wins to become property. Gardner Cowles heads the Des Moines papers and John Cowles heads Minneapolis paper.
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NEW York
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Minneapolis Star-Journal
Cowles
Des Moines
Register and Tribune
New York Sun
New York Times
Gardner Cowles
John Cowles
Minneapolis
Poet Edgar A Guest A to Z Childrens Poem
A playful alphabet poem by Edgar A Guest introduces letters with everyday tech and scenes. It presents A for auto and airplane, B for battery, C for crankcase, I for driver, E for entrance of a building, F for furnace, and a lighthearted line about Grandpa finishing a nap.
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George Raft
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