Costume Plays Dominating 1934 Film Plans
Loueln O. Parsons reports Warner Brothers and other studios courting costume dramas as 1934 favorites. Kay Francis leads in Madame Du Barry with production starting within ninety days. The piece surveys stars, roles, and studio plans across London and Hollywood as Carey Grant and others face casting shifts.
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Loueln O. Parsons
Los Angeles
Walt
Hel Wallis
Warner Brothers
Madame du Barry
Kay Frances
Kay
S6th Street
du Barry
Edward Chodorov
Paris
Christina
Catherine of Russia
Napoleon
Favorable Business Reports of the Day
Chicago reports show November shipments of Donehola washing machines rising 48.5 percent to 89,026 units, per American Washing Machine Manufacturers association secretary J. R. Bohnen. Rock Island Lines notes November net operating income at 33,328, above 1932’s New Year baseline but below October. Chicago district electricity output for week to December 93 up 7 percent year over year, totaling 105,196,000 kilowatt hours. Standard Statistics executive Laurence H. Sloan cites 1933 industrial earnings firming across sectors, with railroads and utilities lagging. Washington reports continuation of the Dec 29 congressional session.
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Chicago
Aepocsition
J. R. Bohnen
Rock Island
WEW
York
Laurence H. Sloan
Standard Statistica Company
Pallroads
Washington
New Foreign Trade Plan to Be Proposed
President Roosevelt will submit a new foreign trade plan to Congress aiming at bilateral agreements rather than broad tariff walls. The strategy seeks to expand foreign markets and reduce surpluses by negotiation, though the president reportedly lacks full power to negotiate reciprocal trade pacts.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
United States
Births Reported From Charleston General Hospital
Birth notices list new arrivals to area families with names and birth dates at Charleston General Hospital and a weekly city health department tally. Notable entries include sons and daughters born to Finley Cook Cham berlain court Emerson Dale Farley Charles Elton Smith Walter Harlesa Foater Hill Casto J W Davis J H Lynch V Shingler Iverson Young Jesse Milam Clyde Wehrle Robert Thompson William Williams and others.
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Finley Cook
Chamberlain Court
Charleston General Hospital
Emerson Dale Farley i
City Health Department
Charles Elton Smith
Charles Elton
J. W. Davis
J. H. Lynch
V. Shingler
Raymond V. Shingler
Iverson Young
Ellen Lucille
Jesse Milam
Yack David
Clyde Wehrle
Edward Garter
Zinn Named as West Virginia Subsistence Project Supervisor
W D Zinn of Philipps W Va is to be named consulting agricultural supervisor for two subsistence homestead projects in West Virginia. A former state agriculture board member and county farm agent, he was recommended by Representative Randolph. Also reporting a Huntington injury, Bilas Barnes 28 of Crozet Va suffered a fractured skull in a fall from an auto after a country club dance. he remains in critical condition at Huntington hospital.
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Washington
Dec
W. D. Zinn
Philipps
W. We
West Virginia
Zinn
State Board of Agriculture
Randolph
D. W. Va
Ray New
Huntington
Bilas Barnes
Crozet
Barnes
Swiger Enlists Eolistment of Paul B Swiger of Salem
The department of public assets announced yesterday that Paul B Swiger of Salem is enlisted as a plate trooper attached to B company Charleston. In Britain last year one in four used the Post Office Savings Bank. The Grosaglockner Allne Highway in Austria will be completed in a year.
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Paul B. Swiger
Salem
B Company
Charleston
Department of Public Assets
Britain
Post Offlee Savings Bank
Grosaglockner-Allne
Austria
County Courts Inistitute Case List From Banarha Gircult
Yesterday in Banarha gircult and common pleas courts cases were instituted. In circuit court H W Bowers administrator sued Elsie C Green and Laura Wallace sued Mabel Oster. In common pleas court Etta Munn administratrix sued Conlon Boxing Company and R Casdorph sued Humphries Motor Sales. EuNice May Steele against William Moser. Bursown Jedburg Scotland banned Sunday galt.
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Banarha Gircult
Common Pleas
Circuit Court
H. W. Bowers
Elsie C. Green
Laura Wallace
Mabel Oster
Common Pleas Court
Etta
Munn
Conlon Boxing Company
R. Casdorph
Humphries Motor Sales
Eunice May Steele
William Moser
Escaping Prisoners Terrorize Community Near Atmore
A desper ate band of seven convicts escaped from the state prison farm near Atmore Alabama and moved north armed after killing a farmer and wounding three others during their flight. They shot Grover Kirby and Parker as they attempted to halt the escape, then killed Leon Palmer and his 18 year old son three miles farther on. Bloodhounds and sheriffs deputies pursued the fugitives with a posse close behind as Chief A H Brown joined the chase after news of additional shootings.
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Atmore
Ale
Msn
Grover Kirby
Parker
Kirby
Century
Leon Palmer
Monroeville
A. H. Brown
Fulmer
London
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Irving Asner
Paddington Studios
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Ken
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Syracuse
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Paramount Story
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Charles Bicktard
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56Th Street
Kay Francis
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Greenbrier
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Farzan
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Libby
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Miller Brand
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Pilsbury’s
Virginia Sweet
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