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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1940
Page
2
Grantland Rice reports on a theater reel featuring Jean Harlow Ben Lyon and James Hail in a dramatic added production. The piece highlights the cast and film notes within a sports and entertainment blend.
Screen Publicists guild selects Cinemarella as a future film icon. Open to any Hollywood girl age sixteen or older, with or without experience, judged by a committee of executives, producers, directors, and cinematographers for personality. Windows on Vine and Hollywood Boulevard host daily Aug 12 to 17 from noon to 12 30, with eliminations and finals broadcast. Lance Hutton family matters noted. Danish marriage law mentioned for Barbara Hutton.
Paul Muni studied every spoken line for the role while Darryl Zanuck debated scene delivery. Five year old Jennifer Warren, an English refugee guest of Mr and Mrs Nick Nayfack, recalls air raids and asks if Nick likes Hitler, declaring in a surprising venom that she hates him.
Riverton youth Fray Nelson, 19, died in an accidental gun discharge while hunting rats in an outbuilding. The incident occurred in Circleville as family members reported the tragedy.
A radio schedule details this Our America program dramatizing America’s wealth in defense resources by tracing communications from primitive signals to radio and TV and transport from ox carts to modern engines. It features David Lloyd George, Bill Stern nightly tennis reports from NEC, and an alien registration act address by Burl G. Harsen.
The Farm Security Administration announced new offices for Berkeley, Morgan, and Jefferson counties to handle rising service calls, in addition to the existing Martinsburg office. The new sites will be in Charles Town and Berkeley Springs, expanding regional coverage.
Property transfers reported include Armon Williams to Mary Elizabeth Burton lot 9 Ragini a Park extension South Hills. Chesapeake Health to Barbara Edelman lot 9 block J Chesapeake. Gertrude Eplin guardian to Fred Zaderazny parcel South Malden Loudon district. Irene Hawes to C. H. Hawes lot 5 block 1 Pioneer Malden district. Lillie Neary to Velda Taylor part of lot 8 block C Browns Branch addition Loudon district. Hallie C. Claypool to Juliana Coleman lot 2 block 18 L J Settle map Montgomery. Mamie Berry to J Watts and F L Tal ar 2 surface and mineral interests parcel Poca district. Dominion to Irene M. Hanning Lots 21 22 S A Lewis addition Chelyan. John Thomas to Harlie V Bennett and wife part of lot 17 Martin and Stump addition Charleston. A N Steele to F L Lawrence part of lot 186 section 2 Belle. Grover Conner to O H Carte Gladys Carte lot 2 Connerville addition Elk district. Fred L. Wallace to William D. Wallace lot 11 and part of lot 10 block 27 West Charleston. Lillian B. Spencer and husband D M McIntyre and wife lots
Files in Bankruptcy shows Meredith Wiseman voluntary petition in district court with liabilities $3,117.15 and assets $4,16,47,17,1B and 19 in block C L Massey addition Marmet. William T. Lively is trustee to Patton Adjustments, Elkview. Martha Evelyn Johnson and husband transfer parcel to Cliff's Cash Grocery in Spring Will Jefferson district.
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