Five Theatres Feature Garbo and Treasures this Week
The Houston theatre listings show Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in Mata Hari with Lionel Barrymore, plus comedy One Good Turn and Peach O'Reno with Bert Wheeler and Red Woolsey. Alabama Theatre features Dolores Del Rio and Leo Carillo in The Girl, Mary Astor in Men of Chance, and Hoot Gibson in Hard Peas. News notes include Metro News color highlights and a New York AP dispatch on wartime correspondent Ed Pera Hunter reported safe after earlier capture claims.
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Lionel Barrymore
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Pera Hunter
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Dispatch
Postal Life and Casualty offers daily accident plan
A City, Mo, insurance ad promotes a new accident policy paying up to 60 per month for mobility for 24 months and 1000 for death, with no medical exam and no payment needed to enroll. Over 86,000 already insured. ages 10 to 70 eligible. limited time offer.
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China Faces Japan With Shaken Unity And Limited Modern Arms
Washington reports that after two decades of civil strife China remains a military enigma. Observers say a united national resolve could sustain a drawn conflict with Japan, but factional loyalty weakens cohesion. China has some modern infantry and artillery but lacks tanks, gas warfare, and comprehensive air power, relying on limited planes for terror tactics.
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China’s military power tops and Japan’s navy dominates
The article argues China lacks real bombers, pursuit and scouting planes, and an effective navy since 1894, while Japan holds the world’s third largest naval force. Washington experts say China would rely on inertia in war, with passive resistance seen as stronger than India’s. The Shanghai boycott fuels harsher Japanese actions, threatening Japan economically if Cathay’s 300 million nationals react broadly.
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Old Guard of Baseball Dead. Dreyfuss passes away
New York reports the death of Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Pirates, heir to the World Series era, at Mt. Sinai Hospital from pneumonia after a January 6 operation. He was the tenth major figure in the game to die in 15 months, joining Wrigley and others. Despite plans to stay for shows, he died February 8, two weeks after Wrigley’s death, as the sport mourned a long list of baseball leaders. Large shipments of goods arrived in British ports ahead of the tariff, including woollens, typewriter parts, knives, gloves, and paper labels.
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Charles Comiskey
James McAleer
Charles Webb Murphy
Garry Herrmann
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Weekend Social Notes From Midland City and Nearby
Midland City and surrounding areas feature a flurry of visits and travel. Residents hosted relatives and friends from Bainbridge Dothan Pinckard Madrid and Graceville while others headed to Tuscaloosa Pensacola and Birmingham for work and new positions.
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Samson
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Montgomery
Bufquia
Family narrowly escapes as fire destroys Alabama home
A fire six miles north of Dothan near the Montgomery highway destroyed the Sel don Patterson family's house Thursday night. Sparks from a two fireplace igniting a rug are believed to have started the blaze. None of the contents were saved and the family barely escaped the burning building. Separately, 1931 national park and monument travel records show 3,544,886 visitors.
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Montgomery Highway
Friends Sing Songs For Man Who Is Ill
Friends of J. F. Patterson gathered at his bedside yesterday afternoon and sang songs of the Sacred Harp. The singing brought comfort and joy to the sick man, says the committee in charge of the sale service. R. Wilson M. M. Shepherd and C. O. Wilkingo comprised the singers committee.
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A Boy Crazy? Grace Perkins Cliffside Drama
Hope and Dickey face family opposition and a heated confrontation at the Ross estate after a broken engagement threat. Hickey urges restraint as Hope seeks a future with Dickey while Papa Ross closes doors on a volatile scene. Hope hides in fear as tensions erupt between lovers and authority.
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