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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
7
Paris dispatch describes tipping as pervasive in France from cabs to cinemas and post offices. It notes coercive expectations, with ushers, doormen, and switchboard attendants demanding tips to access services, seats, or even basic hotel amenities, and portrays tipping as edging into bribery and blackmail.
A Virginia parcel tale describes prepaid carriage and newcomer delivery in Paris where a boy hands the parcel back, the deliverer demands a 35 cent tip, and the narrator assumes courtesy ends with a gesture. The piece then notes oddities about newsprint, fleas underwater, and ancient Egyptian mummification beliefs as context.
Dallas millionaire Jack D. Wrather organized Wrather Productions Inc backed by about 15 million from Texas oil interests to produce entertainment and educational films. In Hollywood he began a 16 millimeter color series for the American Association of Electric Utilities, with three feature films planned including Turning Point set in East Texas oil fields starring Don Castle and Brian Donlevy, as Wrather seeks unknown leads like Jane Russell or Jean HarlowType figures.
Wrather prepares a Dallas camera unit for the project In His Steps with Charles Bickford set as lead. Processing and staging will occur at Wrather’s West Coast studios, aligning production logistics across locations.
CHICAGO UP The Ratchford brothers of Dayton Ohio produce the Electrocuter a trap that lures executes and ejects mice by plugging into a nearby outlet The device kills instantly with an electrical shock and a phenomenon unseen before in rodent control
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