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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1937

Page

12

Washburn and local cast present drama in town

Bryant Washburn of Hollywen appears in The Man From Nowhere at the Benjamin Franklin school auditorium with a local cast. The mystery drama follows a bank scam, boarding house lives, and a romance as suspense builds and Pineapple gags fly. Musical numbers and student performances add between acts.

Bryant Washburn Hollywen Benjamin Franklin Syd Terium Carechs Grama Flw Orr Bernice Lana Henretta Seabrooke Martha Felter Jeannette Stepanek Iris Clift Jerry Fottrel Wendl Liprert Leo B. Sedlacek Waihem Lara Billy Boston St. Patrick's School Betty Burxe Roosevelt School Roland Crusek R. J. Martin Marc Rawson Woodrow Bontreger

Director Bacon Seeks Twenty Ugly Girls for Eve

Lloyd Bacon issued a strange call for extra talent for Ever Since Eve asking for twenty ugly girls and the casting office obtained them with more difficulty than finds pretty ones.

Lloyd Bacon

Play of Puppies as Practice for Future Tasks

The author blends Groos’s theory with personal observations to argue that puppy play, like children's games, is an instinctive training ground. He suggests play rehearses future life duties and that both sexes' games prepare for adult roles, reflecting inherited endowments and individual experience.

Professor Groos Groos

Weary Eyes Use Green Shadow for Tired Look

Doris Weston says she uses green eyeshadow on lids and lash tips after a long day to perk up tired eyes. She calls it her prize pick up.

Doris Weston

Senior Recital at St Patrick’s School Auditorium

The senior recital by pupils of St Patrick's school is set for Friday at 2 30 p m in the school auditorium. Program items include At the Donnybrook Fair by Scott Helen Cahalan In the Divisible by Thompson Merle Little Pixies Goodnight Song by Brown Robert Stodola Woods St Darn sessecess Kerr Maureen Shea Violet Waltz clarinet Behr John Melichar.

St. Patrick’s School Scott Helen Cahalan Thompson Merle Little Pixies Brown Robert Stodola Woods St Darn Sessecess Kerr Maureen Shea Violet Waltz Behr John Melichar

Fragmentary Song and Dance Names from a Classical Program

A garbled list of performers and titles appears, including Dancing Sunbeams, Yellow Jonaulis, Serenata, Morning Bonng, and various named artists such as Martin James, Rebe Geraldine Kelly, and George Kremenak. The text seems to enumerate acts or participants in a cultural program with many incomplete names and misread items.

Os Thompson Bernadine Spatsht Cottom Pickers Martin James Little Dancing Sunbeams Anthony Lucille Mellchar Vesese Metterer Mary ‘Little

Barber Pole Lipstick Gadget Sparks Conversation

Gloria Dick son unveils a barber pole pin with a removable brass head and attached lipstick. The device lets the wearer pin the accessory on and keep lipstick ready for quick touch ups.

Gloria Dickson

Bicycle Boom Surges as 1936 U.S. Production Tops Record

New figures from the American Iron and Steel Institute show more than 1,200,000 bicycles manufactured in 1936, surpassing the 1899 record of 1,182,700. The revival of bicycling echoes the Gay Nineties as the industry expands nationwide.

New York INS American Iron and Steel Institute

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