Pete Smiths Short Film Series Gains MGM Contract
Universal Service motion picture editor Louella C Parsons notes Pete Smith, once a publicist for Samuel Goldwyn, signs an eighteen a year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His humorous shorts rank just below Walt Disney cartoons, with his new lead short The Killer about a dog on trial.
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Louella C. Parsons
Universal Service
Motion Picture
Los Angeles
Pete Mith
Samuel Goldwyn
New York
Walt Disney
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pete
Clark Gable
Stars and studios tease MGM plans for new film
Trock arrives for this picture and more signing trainer Mike Cantwell to train Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew. Reports note discipline in training and potential for Jackie to win the lead. Also highlights Hollywood sightings at a preview and notable celebrities in town including Kay Francis and Myrna Loy.
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Freddie Bartholomew
Jackie Cooper
MGM
Mike Cantwell
Max Baer
Monsieur Cantwell
Jackie
Freddie
Hollywood
Billy Seymour
Mary Kirk Brown
George Raft
Arthur Gordini
Nora Bayes
Kay Francis
Delmar Daves
Constance Collier
Cole Porter
Hollywood Gossip Roundup With Stars Visit Studios
Nose of the Super Chief exits Los Angeles with Hippodrome star R H Burnside helping promote the Hippodrome film Antonio Moreno shares postcards from Spain while vacationing Brian Aherne returns to Hollywood after St Joan Virginia Bruce praises her brother Stanley Briggs graduating from U C L A Douglas Fairbanks and bride dine with Merle Oberon and Doug's pals Fred Stone performs a whip stunt on the Paramount lot with Madeleine Carroll Gary Cooper and other players applaud See you tomorrow
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Nose
Los Angeles
R. H. Burnside
Hippodrome Fame
Antonio Moreno
Spain
Brian Aherne
St. Joan
Hollywood
Virginia Bruce
Stanley Briggs
Douglas Fairbanks
Merle Oberon
Doug
Fred Stone
Paramount
Madeleine Carroll
Gary Cooper
Notice of Appointment of Executrix No 13900
State of Iowa Linn County ss Notice is hereby given that on May 11 1936 Ruby May Byers was appointed Executrix of the estate of Roxena M Snouffer late of Linn County deceased Those indebted to the estate should pay promptly and those with claims must file them with the Linn County District Court Clerk through attorney John D Randall.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Roxena M. Snouffer
Ruby May Byers
Re elect Rush Butler Iowa Alumni President
The Gazette reports the re election of Rush C Butler of Chicago as president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association announced by alumni secretary Bruce E Mahan. Elected vice presidents by mail ballot are Clyde B Charlton and Donald M Graham. Alumni directors span regions and districts including Arlo Wilson Frank E Horack Jr Paulus Groening Philip D Macbride Carl C Riepe Benjamin F Butler John C Eichhorn R M Baird and Dr Thomas Gittens.
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Iowa City
Rush C. Butler
Chicago
University of Iowa Alumni Association
Bruce E. Mahan
Clyde B. Charlton
Des Moines
Donald M. Graham
Waterloo
Arlo Wilson
Frank E. Horack, Jr
Bloomington
Ind
Paulus Groening
Oklahoma City
First Negro Public Officer Ebenezer Basset Named Consul General
Ebenezer Don Carlos Basset of Philadelphia became the first African American to hold public office in the United States when President Grant appointed him consul general to Haiti in 1869.
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United States
Ebenezer Don Carlos Basset
Philadelphia
Haiti
Grant
Theaters Listings and Notable Figures Feature
The page lists film bookings at multiple houses including AT THE THEATERS in Iowa with stars Melvyn Douglas Mary Astor in And So They Were Married and The Girl From Mandalay. It notes Paramount titles with Margaret Sullivan Henry Fonda Paris in New York and more at State Palace Rialto Olympic venues. It also praises Richard Nash as a renowned Bath master of ceremonies of the early eighteenth century.
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Iowa
Melvyn Douglas
Mary Astor
Conrad Nagel
Kay Linaker
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Mr. Connolly
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Kelly
Winterset” Company
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Charles Butterworth
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Margot
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Teer
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Chic” Sale
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Jack Holt
Chic Sale
Harry Richman
Rochelle Hudson
Olympic
Helen Vinson
Conrad Veidt
John Beal
Gloria
Stuart
Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Johnson
Richard Nash
Bath
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