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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1932
Page
8
A single used syrup pan is offered for instant purchase by Reneau Sheet Metal Works located on East Troy street. Contact phone 361 for quick sale details.
For rent: the Daniel Cherry Place a four horse farm located two miles from Dothan. Contact 8. E. or A. W. Lisenby for details.
Copenhagen born Gwili Andresen arrives in Hollywood to seek stardom under Radio Pictures contract. She recalls labor as a model in New York earning up to 50 dollars an hour and says pictures offer more future. She keeps a Beverly Hills home, wants a Danish cook, and notes no interview rule to avoid pre screen publicity.
The piece describes the 1930s style parade of feathered cha peaux and outlandish dresses, a lunchtime rally feeding 1,500 soldiers and civilians, and notes Charles Laughton’s claim to moral simplicity as he pursued a memorable drowning scene in Devil and The Deep.
Opera star Lily Pons spent time in Hollywood meeting studios and stars but left with only one screen test offered and no contracts. Universal and Fox show interest while MGM says tests were courtesy. Wary, Hollywood remains eager for her screen appeal as talks continue. Also noted is a tale of Fred W. Lake Jr of Kansas City meeting Will Rogers and Rogers joking about a ten cent handshake venture for Christmas money.
The article notes a Spanish actress claiming the film with an all Spanish cast progressed without a single fight. Herbert Mundin shares a joke with Clive Brook, who compliments the gag and muses that he might have thought of it himself.
The listing highlights showings in Houston including Pack Up Your Troubles starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Smiling Through with Norma Shearer, Mon tagns Kid with Bill Cody, Last of the Mohicans chapter 3 with Harry Carey, Blonde Venus starring Marlene Dietrich, Riders of Death Valley with Tom Mix, plus The Lest Frontier serial. Fox News and Columbia Specialties are noted in the program.
In Newark Santa returns to her parents with Clive after a fraught ParisVienna era. The dinner scene reveals long buried tensions as Clive, once torn by duty and desire, confronts Santa, her husband Dicky, and a web of past betrayals while seeking a chance to redeem himself.
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