Who's News This Week Features Bonney and Mayer Rise
A sprawling profile highlights Miss Bonney, famed American photographer and wartime documentarian, earning the Croix de Guerre and aiding refugee work in Europe, alongside Leos B. Mayer, MGM executive whose unlikely rise from salvaging iron to Hollywood presidency is recounted with brisk, vivid strokes. The piece sketches careers amid war and industry upheaval.
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Leos B. Mayer
L.b.mayer
SEC
New Brunswick
Minsk
Russia
George M Cohan
Maguire dinner tests family tensions in Covington
Mary Etta Newsom clashes with Laura Maguire as Tom and Mary Etta face financial strain while Kath leen frets over Mike Maguire’s impulsive gesture. Jaird Newsum and Shirley Maguire share unresolved feelings as Rae. Kathleen discovers Ritchie Graham arrives for dinner upsetting plans.
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Laura
Belle’ Newsum
Jaird
Kathleen
Shirley
Daird
Belle Newsom
Covington
Hulda
Irish Minister Robert Breenan Held on International Food Trade Probe
Robert Breenan Ireland's minister to Washington once a pulp magazine writer, now jailed in British prisons including Dublin Cork Dartmoor and Gloucester. He was among six men being scanned for execution in connection with an ongoing food and arms negotiation matter with the United States.
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Robert Breenan
Eire
Washington
United States
Dublin
Cork
Dartmoor
Gloucester
Ss Canner
Execu
Family rift and late dinner prompt clash
Kathleen copes with Alec missing dinner after a drinking episode linked to Myra Boone. The siblings, two years apart, share a tense but fond history, while Alec’s restlessness and need for action contrast with Kathleen’s quiet heartbreak over his choices. The scene hints at their troubled school and career pressures.
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Mike
Kathleen
Alex
Alec
Laura
Myra Boone
Exercise That Benefits The Weak Heart
Dr James W Barton discusses Nauheim Bath and Schott System of exercise for a weak muscular heart. Massage and passive movements help push blood, while breathing exercises increase flow to the lungs and body. These methods provide heart activity with less strain than walking or games.
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Nauheim
Josef B. Nylin
Philadelphia
Allergy linked to stuttering in schoolchildren
A Welsh study by Drs A M Kennedy and D A Williams suggests stammering stems from nervousness and may relate to allergy. Among 100 stuttering children, all but one showed allergy evidence in personal or family history. 52 had personal history and 48 had both histories.
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A. M. Kennedy
D. A. Williams
Cardiff
Wales
Question Box Sinus Trouble Curability and Causes
Q and A discuss sinus trouble and its curability. Some cases are cured by medical treatment others by secular or dry climate treatment. A few cases do not respond to any form of treatment. The dialogue also mentions excessive saliva as a separate query.
Slim Edward Arnold in Nothing But the Truth
Virginia Vale reports Edward Arnold weighs 35 pounds less after a shin injury and blood poisoning. The 24 hour story requires careful staging as he plays the top role in The Devil and Daniel Webster. Films mentioned include Road to Moscow renamed Road to Morocco, The Parson of Panamint, The Silver Queen and Reaching for the Sun with Ellen Drew, Joel McCrea and Eddie Bracken.
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Edward Arnold
Arnold
the Devil
Daniel Webster
Thomas Mitchell
Ellen Drew
New York
Joel McCrea
Eddie Bracken
Stars and contracts mark 1930s film moves in Hollywood
Bill Boyd extends Hopalong Cassidy run with his thirty seventh screen appearance in Secret of the Wastelands after seven years in the role. Ginny Simms signs long term with RKO to continue radio work with Kay Kyser while movie commitments arise. Jean Arthur expected for Miss Susie Slagle’s Paramount film, portraying a Southern woman with medical student lodgers. Harold Winston, Capra dialogue director, recalls hiring Bette Davis after a Cape Cod theater stint where Marguerite Churchill left the show unexpectedly, paving Davis’s first screen break.
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Bill Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Jean Arthur
Susie Slagle
Paramount
Bette Davis
Harold Winston
Frank Capra
Cape Playhouse
Cape Cod
Mass
Marguerite Churchill
Hollywood
Bette
Look Who's Talking Heads to Screen Debut as Radio Stars
The film adaptation stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Fibber McGee and Molly. Lucille Ball has a major role alongside Lee Bennett in Harold Lloyd's A Girl A Guy and A God. The audience for the radio program nears 100 million listeners awaiting the show’s screen arrival.
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Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Fibber McGee
Molly Lucille Ball
Harold Lloyd
Lee Bonnell
Metro Signs SixteenYearOld Singer Anne Rooney
Metro adds Anne Rooney to its lineup a sixteen year old performer standing five feet tall. Rooney has one decade of experience as an entertainer starting at age two with Al Pearce and his Radio Gang. She later touredvaudeville with her sister and parents and appeared in small theater productions.
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Mary Etta
Laura
Tom
Harvey Cobb Leigh
Shirley
Kathleen
Mike Maguire
Ritchie Graham
Miss Maguire
Mike
Ned
Metro
Anne Rooney
al Pearce
Radio Gang
Oddities of Radio and Film Stars Loom in Summer Schedule
The article notes Dennis in Warner Bros Carnival in Rio with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in nine productions. It mentions Wen Niles as announcer and figures like Rudy Vallee and John Barrymore. NBC plans a summer program with Ted Steele as singer and bandleader.
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Warner Bros
Rio
Stan Laurel
Oliver
Nine Pictures
Wen Niles
Figfeale I’s
Puddin
Rudy
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