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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
7
Mary Manners offers advice on handling a sour critic and improving relationships. The letter discusses Arrie who dislikes everything and ruins others’ enthusiasm. The reader reports improving a boyfriend by speaking up, then asks Miss Manners for guidance.
A widow with three young children writes about summer hardship while the oldest child helps with siblings. Miss Manners replies that perseverance brings compensation and urges keeping spirits up, calling the children a great heritage and wishing luck.
Hollywood studios race to film war stories as public interest shifts to overseas conflict. Samuel Goldwyn hires Jo Swerling for Blackout Over Europe with James Basevi creating storm effects. Edward Small pursues Erika Mann poetry School For Barbarians amid war production doubts. ERBERT MARSHALL reunites with daughter Sara in Beverly Hills while Nat Wolff escorts mother and child from England. Mary Hay visits Hollywood on honeymoon with husband Richard Hastings. George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara and The Tower of London lose key war-related scenes.
The industry likely to see producers curtail expensive projects yet avoid major slumps. Independent makers may trim budgets without collapsing output. Major studios expect savings but not a repeat of past downturns as releases proceed.
Abroad directing G B S s play he pledged Universal to film scenes of school children touring the town and hearing its history. Evacuation of London halted the project and Major Barbara is cancelled with John Mills and Wendy Hiller among those called to the colors.
City briefs report Mervin L. Myers and wife returning from a 10 day trip to Manassas Virginia and Washington DC to visit relatives. Earl Eddington recovering after a surgical operation at Mercy hospital may receive visitors. Harry N Zearing and Nora McGraw of Mount Vernon wed by Justice Churchill. Townsend club dance set for Friday at Odd Fellows hall. Josephine Werner society of First Lutheran to meet Friday at 2119 Blake boulevard SE. Music and dancing classes being formed for the new season with enrollments via Fine Arts Directory in Want Ad section.
Three year old Donald Kucera son of Mrs Millie Kucera of 857 Third Avenue SE was taken to Mercy hospital at 2 30 p m Wednesday after suffering a broken collar bone from falling in the street in front of his home. Mrs J C Adkins will show motion pictures of travels in the Black Hills Yellowstone park and Colorado at Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian church at 8 tonight. Mrs Adkins is daughter of the church’s Rev August Cramer and Mrs Cramer.
Joe Kulhavy, 56, of Vinton, was jailed in Linn County on a charge of false uttering a check after a warrant issued by Justice H. R. Churchill. The Waltonians selected a general committee for their Waltonian park fall picnic along the Wapsie river near Troy Mills, with Edwin W. Lundquist as chairman and Art Brown, J. I. Merritt, Milo Sedlacek, W. W. Crissman, and Carl Hendrickson on the panel.
Mr and Mrs M J Donnelly of 315 Nassau Street SE were in Bordeaux France last Sunday awaiting a passage to the United States when a cable received at their home reported they were safe. The message gave no further details.
Stamp collectors of Cedar Rapids and vicinity will meet Friday at 6 15 p m at the home of L L Lochner 2612 Avenue NE. Lochner club vice president invites all philately enthusiasts to attend. A buffet supper will be served. Cedar Rapids Stamp Club opens fall activities with regular Montrose hotel meetings on September 11 and 25 at 8 p m.
Theaters feature a mix of stars and double features across chains. At the Iowa rundown Carole Lombard Cary Grant Kay Francis headline In Name Only while Conspiracy stars Allan Lane Linda Hayes. Paramount shelves include Night Work with Mary Boland Charles Rug gles and David O Connor and They All Come Out with Rita Johnson Tom Neal. State presents Hotel for Women with Ann Sothern Elsa Maxwell Lynn Bari and Million Dollar Legs with Betty Grable Jackie Coogan. Palace brings Wife Husband and Friend with Loretta Young Warner Baxter and One Third of a Nation with Sylvia Sidney. Strand offers Three Loves Has Nancy with Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone and Spawn of the North with Dorothy Lamour George Raft Henry Fonda. Rialto runs You Only Live Once with Henry Fonda Sylvia Sidney and Part of Missing Girls with Harry Carey Judith Allen Betty Compson.
Members of the Abodeely family and friends gathered at Joseph Abodeely's home to bid farewell to Edward J. Abodeely who left to resume high school teaching at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind in Tucson. Abodeely, a 1934 Iowa School for the Deaf graduate, earned a BA from Coe College in three years and recently obtained a principal's certificate from the University of Iowa. He was appointed to the Arizona school two years ago and serves as secretary of the Southwest Association for the Deaf and as organizer and first president of a major Syrian American club.
A reflective verse fragment shows Edgar A. Guest recounting a shore line misdirection among fishermen. The speaker recalls landmarks a pine tree, barn, silver birch, ice-house, and church while a guide notes locals guesswork and the need to rely on local knowledge in a drift seeking bass.
Edward Nothnagel 18 of Dearborn Mich was arrested Tuesday by Cedar Rapids police at Vinton authorities request after admitting theft of more than $30 from a Vinton Sweet Corn day concession. He was held for investigation by Justice H R Churchill on vagrancy charges. Nothnagel was nabbed while shining shoes and had $20.47 with him. Bond was set at 100 dollars.
Paramount theater screens a news reel depicting England’s wartime reaction the evacuation of the sick blind and children from London and American responses led by President Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. Sept 3 news shots were rushed to America by air and shown four days later.
The council directed the mayor to sign leases with the Milwaukee railroad for land behind the central fire station where a fire department shop will be built. Commissioner Burgus reported $3,000 of park improvement bonds retired on Sept 6 and $890 interest paid on other bonds. The council filed a seven day resolution for bituminous surfacing of D Street SW between Sixteenth Avenue and Bowling Street.
The August waterworks report records receipts of 29773 dollars and expenditures of 19529 dollars. It notes 147,320,000 gallons pumped in the 31 day period. The waterworks fund was overdrawn 12066 dollars on August 1 but only 1821 dollars on August 31.
Roosevelt Hotel Company sues Helen Adelia Batchelor for 51.62 plus 5 percent interest from January 6 1940 for room and meals. Petition on file. appear by noon of the second day of the September term beginning September 18 1939 at Cedar Rapids Iowa. default and judgment if you fail. IMMONS ANITA IN attorney for plaintiff.
Miriam H. White files for an absolute divorce from Emmett Hiagr nite in the September 1939 term. The petition cites cruel and inhuman treatment and warns a default judgment if the defendant does not appear before noon on September 18, 1939 at Cedar Rapids Court House. LER LIDDLE FAHEY represents the plaintiff.
Jack Crawford, a rotund clown prince of swing, headlines at Thornwood ballroom for a one night stand on Saturday. He offers impressions of Ted Lewis, Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Paul Whiteman and Oliver Hardy, plus Stanley Fleck’s drumming on "Twelfth Street 2."
The article states the shortest distance across the United States runs from San Diego California to Charleston South Carolina, totaling 2 151 miles.
Calder's Van & Storage Co Inc Cedar Rapids Iowa will sell at public auction September 25 1939 at 9 a.m. at 412 416 A Ave NE to satisfy storage charges for various goods including household items belonging to named individuals and Mrs. C J Rock etc Auction conducted by Geo H Harmer manager.
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