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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1934
Page
5
Oct. 20 AP reports Governor argues permanent parole can be revoked anytime. Quoted lines from B. M. Miller discuss ministers, trusties, and reform within Alabama prisons. Text references reformers praising inmates once deemed dangerous.
Alabama Supreme Court rules A. R. Springer wrongfully held Lauderdale County Superintendent post and designates Homer Williams as the valid county education chief. The ruling voids part of Springer's term and confirms Williams’ tenure from June 30, 1984, onward, while stating the board had no authority to reappoint Springer for two more years.
Manila Oct 20 AP Vast language divide at the Philippine commonwealth convention stalls progress. Delegates speak English Spanish and numerous native dialects with only about two thirds understanding Tagalog and forty five percent fluent in Visayan. The mix reflects centuries of linguistic diversity complicating the drafting process.
A collection of brief, quirky items spans Marechal Ira Pence in Pay to Advance, a tabby avoiding a Nywheel, a Norwegian youth’s wolf encounter, Omaha locomotive heroism saving Mrs. Perry, a Steubenville bank heist escape using a fire truck, and Hopkinsville reports on Hugh Grant hiding from Florida warrants while continuing car payments.
A cluttered update lists upcoming film schedules for Houston and ALCAZAR and ALABAMA venues. It notes Bing Crosby, Miriam Mapkine, Kitty Carlale, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Kay Francis, Leslie Howard, John Wayne, Cary Grant and others in various features plus shorts. Also mentions Eagle-Pathe News and promotional ad urging readers to call in Eagle want ads.
Baseball celebrities including Pat Flaherty Bob and Irish Meusel Dick Cox Ivan Oleen Ping Bodie Red Barker and others act in Death On The Diamond on the Alabama screen Flaherty not only plays coach but coaches actors in bat play scenes The dialogue was written by Ralph Spence The director recalls Mike Donlin as technical adviser who died recently and the cast honors his memory The film features interludes of comedy relief and dramatized game tension
Lee Tracy stars in Paramount's Damon Runyan tale The Lemon Drop Kid as Runyan's fast talking Kid with a trackside gift. He escapes a bad day at the races to a one horse town where a country girl falls for him, with Helen Mack co starring and a cast including William Franey Minna Gombell Henry B Walthall and Baby LeRoy.
Cary Grant stars in a Paramount comedy about a Paris socialite entangled in a South American concession plot and romance. Frances Drake excels as a telephonist fiancée, with Charles S Ray as a comeback hotel doorman and a supporting cast including Nedig Westman and Edward Everett Horton.
Montgomery October 3 AP Attorney Generalynoman E Knight Jr rules that the 1919 focal act granting 3 dollars a day during term time to the Pike Circuit Court clerk for an assistant is unconstitutional.
Five year old Shirley Temple stars as the title character in Paramounts Little Miss Marker at the Alabama Theatre Monday. The child actress, featured with Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford and Lynne Overman, has been in motion pictures for about a year and is noted for her Baby Burlesque beginnings and rapid rise to feature parts.
The Universal production Gift of Gab starring Edmund Lowe comes to the Houston theatre next Tuesday. The comedy skewers murder scripts and radio skits with a cast including Bela Lugosi as an apache, Roger Pryor, Chester Morris, Douglass Montgomery, Binnie Barnes, June Knight, Paul Lukas, Helen Vinson, Phil Baker, Winifred Show, Andy Devine, Gloria Stuart, Gus Arnheim and his orchestra, the Downey Sisters, the Beale Street Boys, Gene Austin and Candy and Coco among others. It showcases radio production inside one plot, featuring a black cat and a running satire on the rise of a radio announcer and reporter.
Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins star in a Paramount comedy based on a stage hit about Princeton students hiding a dancer in their dormitory. The plot includes a film magnate father, publicity schemes, and musical numbers with Crosby and Kitty Carlisle while supporting cast features Henry Stephenson and Warren Hymer.
Jacksonvill e Fla Oct 20 AP Experimentary Hung oil project will be carried out at the Henry Ford plantation near Ways, GA not Savannah, as reported by Tarry W Bennet of Ginerville. Bennet, Florida horticulturist, says orders were issued to plant tung trees and produce oil for paints varnishes and enamels. The venture aims to test tung oil as a raw material for manufacturing advances early next year.
Kay Francis says Elena in British Agent is her most difficult part. The National Productions film, showing at the Houston Theatre, casts her as a young Russian aristocrat converted to Bolshevism torn between devotion to the Soviet cause and love for an Englishman.
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