Libeled Lady stars light up MGM front page at Princess
A star studded week features Jean Harlow William Powell Myrna Loy Spencer Tracy in Libeled Lady at the Princess. Directors Wallace Sullivan Jim Watkins and Howard E Rogers craft a lavish comedy about a metropolitan newspaper libel suit with romance and hijinks across New York London and California’s High Sierras.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Princess Theatre
Jean Harlow
Suzy
San Francisco
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Powell
Spencer Tracy
Chicago
Howard Emmett Rogers
George Oppenheimer
New York
London
California
High
Sierras
Tracy
Half Right Indianapolis Robbery Call Baffles Police
A call to police headquarters reports a robbery in progress with the caller saying he was half robbed because he had no money. Police, protecting the caller's privacy, declined to reveal the name.
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Indianapolis
Landon Dines On Game And Fish In Camp
Governor Alf M Landon while staying with friends at a remote Wacissa River camp hunted deer and fished. He said he did not bag a deer but killed a few ducks at daybreak and planned more hunting and fishing the next day while the gunner of the buck remained unnamed.
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Monticelia
Fia
Alf M. Landon
Wacissa River Woods
Landon
Hastings debaters fix bus radiator with gum
A Hastings Nebraska debate party en route to Winfield Kansas arrived on time after chewing gum plugged a leaking bus radiator. The busload of college debaters deemed the clever repair a success during the inter collegiate tournament trip.
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Winfield, Kas
Hastings
Neb
They Met In a Taxi at Princess Theatre Sunday
A Columbia comedy drama They Met In a Taxi stars Fay Wray and Chester Morris at the Princess Theatre Sunday. The plot follows a model accused of stealing a pearl necklace, fleeing into a taxi, and finding help from Morris and supporting players Lionel Stander Raymond Walburn Ward Bond in a light moral mystery comedy. The film based on Octavus Roy Cohen with direction by Alfred Green features a tangled romance and a penniless rival as the tale unfolds with wit and peril.
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Fay Wray
Chester Morris
Lionel Stander
Ross Alexander
Capitol
Carter
Spencer Tracy
William Powell
Jean Harlow
Myrna Loy
the Princess
Frank McHugh
Joan Blondell
Princess Theatre
Columbia
New York
Raymond Walburn
Henry Mollison
Ward Bond
Saturday Evening Post
Octavus Roy Cohen
Alfred Green
Howard J. Green
Mary Trenton
Fay
Jimmy Donlin
Morris
Walburn
Society
Miss Wray
Mollison
Hison
Sgis
Doctors Work To Save Convict's Eyes
Memphis dispatch reports doctors fought to prevent total blindness of Joe Peck, Arkansas convict and former middleweight boxer, who has been at the penitentiary 19 months after claiming he was not driving the car involved in a fatal March 1934 Little Rock accident.
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Memphis
Tenn
Joe Peck
Arkansas
Peck
Arkansas Penitentiary
Little Rock
Capitol Has A Good Picture
Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams star in Republic Production "$1,000 A Minute" at the Capitol for one day starting Sunday. Pryor, noted for transforming "Apron Strings" into a three act play, is hailed as a successful play doctor after guiding the work through a key three act change with a sly program hack. Supporting cast includes Morgan Wallace Edward Brophy Herman Bing William Austin Sterling Holloway and others.
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Roger Pryor
Leila Hyams
Republic
Capitol Theatre
Pryor
Approval Given Two Marriages
Washington December 5 The state department granted sanction for the marriage of foreign women to two American vice consuls. These are the first permissions issued since President Roosevelt ordered advance approval by the secretary of state for such unions.
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Washington
State Department
Roosevelt
Secretary of State
Taxi cab henhouse heist confounds Georgia deputy
In Augusta on December 5 a henhouse raider confessed a novel theft method. He would enter a chicken coop, load a sack with birds, call a taxi, and deliver the poultry to customers.
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Augusta
Walter Kent
Alabama Farmers Repay Rural Rehabilitation Loans
Alabama farmers led the south eastern region in loan repayments with 61.88 percent repaid. E. B. Morgan, assistant director of rural rehabilitation, said loans totaling 2,501,955 dollars have been repaid 1,548,241 dollars to date.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Morgan
Resettlement Administration
Three Men on a Horse Brightens Princess Theater
A lively stage to screen success at the Princess features Frank McHugh and Joan Blondell in a comedy about a timid rhyme writer who wins tips at a saloon, faces deception, and ends with a comedic transformation. Mervyn LeRoy’s direction and a strong cast keep the audience laughing throughout.
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Princess Theatre
Rhymster
States
Australia
Frank McHugh
Joan Blondell
McHugh
Erwin
Orwin
Joan
Mable
Carol Hughes
Oiwin
Guy Kibbee
Carver
Ed Kennedy
Allen Jenkins
Teddy Hart
Sam Levene
Oswin
Mervyn LeRoy
Anthony Adverse
John Cecil Holm
Laird Doyle
Dog blocks Ashland Avenue streetcar line
A dog lay under a street car on Ashland Avenue in Chicago, snarling at traffic. Unhurt but annoyed, the animal refused to move despite offers from a police squad. After a dozen cars were stalled, two wrecking crews jacked up the car and the dog walked out.
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Chicago
Ashland Avenue
Prizes Offered for Decorations in Athens Alabama
The Club announces two prizes for the most ingenuity shown in decorating homes and lawns for Christmas. Exterior displays visible from the street will be judged. Out of town judges will select winners and prizes will be awarded at least a week before Christmas as gifts.
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Athens
Ala
Club
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