Noted Writers and Leaders Highlight This Week
Anita Loos gained fame from her manuscript that sold for over $600,000 and launched a worldwide franchise of books and films. Springfield mayor and innovator Roger Putnam promotes city industry labor training and civilian coordination, while Dr Francis C Frary leads electrometallurgy research at Aluminum Company of America refining aluminum use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger L. Putnam
Springfield
Mass
Putnam
Francis C. Frary
Aluminum Company of America
Keystone
University of Minnesota
University of Berlin
Iced drinks and fruit juice desserts for hot days
A wholesome guide to cool summer beverages with fruit juices tea and milk. It describes making iced tea double strength garnished with lemon mint and orange slices and offers Orange Mint Julep and a milk fruit juice drink boosting vitamins and energy.
Old Fashioned Fruit Drinks and Coconut Flake Cookies
A readable excerpt details fruit cup and noodle ring menus with fried chicken, plus several dessert beverages and snacks. Includes recipes for Fruit Float, Fruit Swizzle, Currant Syrup with Raspberries, Cinnamon Almond Float, and Coconut Flake Cookies, with serving sizes and method notes.
Frosted Glass Drinks and Old Fashioned Granits
A recipe describes glazing glasses with beaten egg white and sugar for frost. It outlines making granits a half frozen drink kept near ice cold until a light snow frost forms, then pours when still liquid. A strawberry granit uses mashed berries, sugar, syrup, strawberry extract, and water, frozen to snow frost and served in long glasses.
Hollywood announces star pairings and industry notes
Western Union reports Joan Crawford and Greer Garson in When Ladies Meet. Robert Taylor tops male interest, Katharine Hepburn plans The Woman of the Year. Miriam Hopkins exits Bad Lands. Hooked on Capra meet Jane Doe project discussed. Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen host radio Quirt and Flagg. Jack Smart dodges fines amid Meet Mr Meek duties. ODDS AND ENDS notes include Cleo Manning debut and San Diego Nazi detection tale. Lili Damita and Sean Flynn return home. Mona Maris to film in Argentina.
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Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Greer Garson
Edmund Lowe
Victor McLaglen
Quirt
Flagg
Cleo Manning
Clark Gable
Metro
San Diego
Lili Damita
Sean Leslie Flynn
Papa Errol
Mona Maris
Warner Bros
Argentina
Ann
Parrot Themed Tea Towels and Panholder Set Ad
A pattern series features an industrious parrot guiding household routines with applique and outline designs. The 29266 motif includes tea towel and panholder options priced at 15 cents, offered in a transfer design. Send your order to the listed address.
Time Wasters Add Up Across a Lifetime
The piece notes the average person wastes about one tenth of life, 3 days yearly waiting for someone to speak, 20 wasted hours yearly from repeating oneself, and 15 minutes daily spent on indecision. It lists time lost to meals, answering the door, and commuting as examples.
Pattern order form from Aunt Martha’s shop
Promotional note from Box 166 W Aunt Martha Kansas City Missouri invites customers to enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired listing pattern number name and address for order processing.
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Martha
Kansas City
Language Diversity Totals 6760 Tongues Cited
A philologists census reports about 6760 languages exist, with 2796 still spoken. Among white races English leads, followed by Russian German Spanish French Portuguese and Italian, while Chinese has the most speakers after that group.
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Who's
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNN
York
Anita Loos
Harlem
Ayil
Miss Loos
Ralph Wheelwright
Lorelei Lee
California
New York
Lorelei
Kansas
Indiana
England
Bill Nye
Sissons
Calif
New York Morning Telegraph
David Griffith
Loos
San Francisco
Harvard
P.G. Stretch
M.I.T
The
Package Machinery Co
James Burnham
Lenowads
Western ‘Newspaper ‘Union
Lynn
Western Newspaper Union
Miss Crawford
Miss Garson
Robert Taylor
Edgar Kennedy
RKO Radio
Chester Conklin
Midwest
Katharine Hepburn
Miriam Hopkins
Robert Stack
Jack Holt
Papa
Tim
RKO
Jenny
William Boyd
Maude Adams
Frank Capra
Jane Doe
John Doe
Capra
Jack Smart
CBS
Mr. Meek
Goethe
Kellogg Company
America
King Edward
Memel
Piel
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