Lily Pons Plans Five Year Run Before Farm Life
Lily Pons announces a five year limit on her film radio stage and opera career before retiring to a Connecticut farm and marrying Andre Kostelanetz. She signs a new five year deal with RKO for one picture annually and aims to film Carmen in full on screen.
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Louella
Parsons
Universal Service
Los Angeles
Lily Pons
Connecticut
Andre Kostelanetz
RKO
Lily
Hollywood Casting Notes and Star Gossip Roundup
Adolphe Menjou signs for the kindly movie producer in A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor joining the lead. Knickerbocker to write The Siege of Alcazar for Zanuck amid Spain coverage. Jeanette MacDonald set to wed Gene Raymond on June 17 despite studio nudges. Ray Milland’s star rises with three Paramount projects. Chaplin to shoot Snapshots of Hollywood. Freddie Marches, Cradle shopping, and various sightings across the industry.
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David O. Selznick
Adolphe Menjou
Fredric March
Janet Gaynor
Janet
Menjou
H. R. Knickerbocker
the Alcazar
Darryl Zanuck
Sonya Levien
Knickerbocker
Spain
Zanuck
International News
Alcazar
Hollywood
Jeanette MacDonald
Gene Raymond
Gene
Mary Kipling
Eloves
Jeanette Lsten
Kolb Dill News Reunions And Broadway Moves
In Hollywood Clarence Kolb lands a key role in After the Thin Man while old times echo with John Barrymore’s Infanta yacht now owned by a local attorney. Paulette Goddard heads to New York for two weeks with her mother as Charlie revisits his Bali story. Sally Breen shifts to Broadway after supporting brother Bobby’s rise.
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Hollywood
Freddie
Evanston
Penelope
Anthony
Florence
Cary Grant
Mary Brian
Cy Bartlett
Bianca Vischer
Pepi D’albren
Hazel Forbes
Olga Hilliard
New York
Jimmy Gleasons
San Francisco
Ghirardellis
Tracy
Marian Sayres
Jimmy Murray
Sir Guy Standing
Virginia Field
Eadie Adams
Clark Gable
Joan Crawford
Julie Haydon
Groucho Marx
Jean Harlow
Spencer Tracy
John Warburtons
John
Clude
Paulette Goddard
Paulette
Charlie
Kolb and
Dill
Clarence Kolb
Sally Breen
Bobby Breen
Sally
Bobby
Broadway
Theaters Show Big 1937 Lineup In Iowa Cities
The program lists movies at AT THE THEATERS including The President's Mystery with Henry Wilcoxon and Betty Furness, Killer at Large with Mary Brian and Russell Hardie. Paramount presents Big Broadcast of 1937 with Jack Benny George Burns and Gracie Allen. Palace features Poppy with W C Fields Rochelle Hudson and O Malley of the Mounted with George OBrien. Rialto shows Captain Blood with Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland and The Unknown Ranger with Bob Allen Martha Tibbetts. Sun features Captain January with Shirley Temple and Roaming Lady with Fay Wray.
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Iowa
Henry Wilcoxon
Betty Furness
Mary Brian
Russell Hardie
Paramount
Jack Benny
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Palace
W. C. Fields
Rochelle Hudson
Poppy
George O’brien
O’malley
the Mounted
State
Rialto
Captain Blood
Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Bob Allen
The President's Mystery at the Iowa theater
A review argues the film presents political propaganda through a story of a president inspired mystery that critiques economic royalists and National Canneries. Henry Wilcoxon and Betty Furness lead with Sid ney Blackmer as the villain while Evelyn Brent appears as the lawyer's wife. The other feature is Killer at Large, with Russell Hardie and Mary Brian.
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Hollywood
Republic Studios
Liberty Magazine
Congress
Henry Wilcoxon
Betty Furness
Sidney Blackmer
Evelyn Brent
Iowa
Russell Hardie
Mary Brian
Alice in Blunderland on Franco and Spain
Alice Longworth critiques Franco's potential rule in a Cincinnati newsreel essay. She contrasts military showmanship with wisdom and warns that Spain needs serious efforts to rebuild rather than flamboyant displays.
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Cincinnati
Franco
Spain
Halden claims small farmers got a raw deal from AAA
In a campaign speech prepared for delivery in Storm Lake, Berry F. Halden, a Republican US Senate hopeful, accused the AAA of shortchanging individual farmers. He faulted the administration for favors to large farming corporations and insular sugar growers and urged distributing aid in smaller sums to family farms.
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Storm Lake
Berry F. Halden
United States Senate
AAA
Halden
Changes Plea To Guilty In Torture Murder Of Recluse
Marvin OShaughnessy known as Irish Hogan, 26, changed his plea from innocent to guilty in the torture murder of John D. Parker, a recluse in Rockwell City. Trial judge will determine guilt level after a hearing. He said another man, Robert Avery, struck the fatal blow and fled after the loot.
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Rockwell City
Marvin
Irish Hogan
O'Shaughnessy
John D. Parker
P. J. Klinker
St. Paul
Minn
O’shaughnessy
Robert “Buck” Avery
Anamosa Reformatory
Avery
O Connor Admitted To Practice Before U S Supreme Court
Attorney General Edward L. O'Connor of Iowa and special assistant Frank Messer were admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Karl Loos, a Washington attorney, vouched for them and moved their admission. O'Connor said he may present arguments in the chain store tax case Tuesday afternoon.
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Washington
Edward L. O’connor
Iowa
Frank Messer
United States Supreme Court
Karl Loos
Iowa City
O’connor
Airliner Sets Chicago to New York Speed Record
The American Airlines flagship District of Columbia landed at Newark after 2 hours 58 minutes 35 seconds from Chicago aided by an 80 mph tail wind. The flight carried 17 passengers and three crew members, averaged 260 mph at 11,000 feet, piloted by Lloyd Blomgren.
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New York
American Airlines
District of Columbia
Newark Airport
Chicago
Lloyd Blomgren
Republican Chairman Demands Ickes Retraction Over Coughlin Claim
Des Moines Iowa Republican Chairman Carl H Cook telegraphed Interior Secretary Harold L Ickes demanding a public retraction of his claim that the Republican party financed Father Charles E Coughlins Des Moines speech last month. Cook called the assertion untrue and asked Ickes to retract the statement citing a report from Ickes own investigating committee.
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Des Moines
Carl H. Cook
Iowa
Republican
Harold L. Ickes
Cook
Republican Party
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Ickes
Father Coughlin
Farley Accused of Ousting 510 Postmasters
The Republican National Committee claimed Postmaster General Farley discharged 510 postmasters who rose from the ranks. The statement cites President Roosevelt backing Farley to ensure no deserving Democrat is left jobless in the postal service amid the New Deal.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Farley
Roosevelt
Civil Service
Plane crash in Wheatland kills two officials
An army air corps plane crashed near Wheatland on Monday killing Arthur J. Reinhart a reserve officer and former Dallas street commissioner and R H Griffith Hensley field pilot.
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Dallas, Tex
Army Air Corps
Wheatland
Arthur J. Reinhart
Dallas
R. H. Griffith
Hensley
Prison death by own action at Leavenworth
Sanford Bates said John Russo a 37 year old counterfeiter hanged himself at Leavenworth last Saturday. The report notes Bates as director of federal prisons and cites NBC CBS radio listings following the notice.
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Washington (Ap
Sanford Bates
Federal
John Russo
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Hoeppel Court Appeal Lost Over West Point Appointment
Congressman John H Hoeppel and his son Charles failed in their appeal to the Supreme Court seeking review of their conspiracy to sell a West Point appointment. Each faces four months to one year in jail after their conviction. they argued technical legal grounds and that the verdict was not supported by the evidence.
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Washington
INS
John H. Hoeppel
California
Charles
Supreme Court
West Point
Hoeppels
High Court
Radio Schedule Highlights NBC CBS And NBC Programs Tonight
Program listing shows evening to late night radio with NBC WEAF WJZ WABC and CBS KMOX WCCO stations. Acts include Amos n Andy Popeye Ruth Lyon Die Mans Family Fred Allen and President Roosevelt address with various orchestras and guests.
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NBC
AFP chainEain
Oleanders
CBS
WABC
Meeder
WIZ c
Weaf Chain
Trio and
White
WJZ Chain
Montana Slim
Streamliners
WEAP
Breakfast Club
Dear Columbia
ABC
WBBM
WCCO
KMOX
Harold Levey Orch
WJZ
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MOX
WGST
Allan Roy Dafoe
Honeyboy
Sassafras
WJZ Peo
MBB
WEEN
Mary Marlin
Nhc
Ao Trent
Gets Page
Contralto
Lemon Nate
Weaf Rhythmaires
En Prnegne
WEAF
Leath
Ts Oe Hollow
New Marine Band
Leaf
Ma Perkins
Vic and Sade
Emery Deutsch Orch
Busse Orch
Amos
Waar
Willies
Welcome Valley
Bernie Orch
Nad Chain
Rupert
Hildegard
Etsonal
Jeffersonian Democrats
Tam Weaf
Harris Orch
Roosevelt Ube
Wwoc
Aa Smolen
Stanley Norris
Shandor
Tommy Dorsey Orch
Johnny Hamp Orch
Maurice Spit
Eduta Levant Orch
Lee Gordon Orch
Harry Kogen Orch
Dorothy Gordons
WOC
Baggy Ante Coness
and Williams
Singer
al of Romance
President Roosevelt
WBGST
Willson Orch
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Progress (Cbs) Wabc Wbbm Kmox Woc
Verrill
Rodrigo Orch
William Hard
Iti Spots
WJZ Ain
Phil Levant Orch
Weaf Ain
Phil Ohman Orch
Roger Pryor Orch
High Court declines case on sailor itch link
The U S Supreme Court would not decide if the second mate Ralph Compton contracted the itch from the ship's cook aboard the Covena. Oregon Supreme Court had awarded Compton $1 000 against Hammond Lumber Co owner of the vessel operating between Pacific coast points and Gulf of Mexico ports. The company argued no evidence linked either man to the illness.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Covena
Cook
Oregon Supreme Court
Ralph Compton
Hammond Lumber Company of
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Lumber Company
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