Laugh Show of the Season Opens Week at the Local Theatre
Melvyn Douglas and Ruth Houbte join Ellen Drew at the Princess Theatre in Columbia for Our Wife a Mahl production hailed as top fun show Douglas plays a band leader who loses his wife and luck meets a new love Miss Drew plays the wife and Miss Hussey the inspiration with Charles Goburn and John Hubbard in supporting roles the piece blends romance with comic triangle elements amid a period noting tuberculosis mortality in 1940.
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Melvyn Douglas
Ruth Houbte
Ellen Drew
Priness Theatre
Inolumbia
John M. Mahl
Guy Wy
Miss Hissey
Miss Drew
Drew
Douglas
Miss Hussey
John Hubbard
Charles Goburn
Devil
Miss Jones
Columbia
Center
Princess Theatre
Ruth Hussey
Charles Coburn
Flint PTA Holds Interesting Meeting
A large turnout attended the Flint PTA meeting in the school auditorium. Mrs. Albert Beggs presided as president with the third and fourth grade program on Christmas spirit directed by Mrs. Bluitt Landers. The secretary read the report and served as acting treasurer in Mrs. Hamaker's absence.
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Flint P.T. A
Albert Beggs
Bluitt Landers
Percy Chunn
A. J. Hamaker
Whitten
Tuberculosis Claims About 170 Lives Daily in U S
Daily tuberculosis deaths in the United States approximate 170, equating to one life every eight and a half minutes as figures highlight ongoing public health challenges.
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United
Tuberculosis Groups Reach Vast Network in U S
The record notes nearly 17 000 tubercu associations and about 900 smaller committees affiliated with the National Tuberculosis Association across the United States.
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Na ‘Tional Tuberculosis Association
United States
Lady Be Good Dances onto Princess Theater Screens
Ann Sothern and Bobby Young star in a lively screen musical with Pleanor Powell performing standout dances including a dog duet and multi piano Boogie-Woogie set. Sothern debuts as a singer with The Last Time I Saw Paris while Powell shines in tap and Broadway style numbers.
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Eleanor Powell
Ann Sothern
Robert Young
John Carroll
Red Skelton
Princess Screen
Hubby
Miss
Arthur Freed
Pleanor Powell
Princess Theater
Miss Powell
Anfi Sothern
Gershwins
Jerome Kern
Miss Sothern
Young
Red
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Paris
First Aid Taught to Decatur Telephone Women
Eleven Decatur office telephone women attend practical first aid courses by Southern Bell in nine states. The Red Cross program covers 26 hours and aims to prepare for emergencies in daily life.
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Decatur
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
North Carolina
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Forty-Eight Girls Attend Flint 4-H Club Meeting
Forty eight girls were present at the Flint 4-H Club meeting this past week. Miss Erien Rowe, demonstration agent, gave a demonstration on foot balance and wrapping Christmas packages in cotton cloth. The club members anticipate a merry Christmas after Miss Rowe demonstrated table decorations for the holidays.
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Flint
Erien Rowe
Tome
Miss Rowe
Air raids kill 36000 civilians in England and US TB deaths
During June 1940 to April 1941 England suffered about 36000 civilian deaths from air raids. In a similar ten month period tuberculosis killed 51000 people in the United States. Christmas Seal funds are described as our home defense against tuberculosis.
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United States
England
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