Leap Year Romance Tips From Stars On Proposing
A playful column imagines how famous actresses and entertainers would pop the question on Leap Year Day February 29. It quotes Genevieve era icons and others, suggesting humorous, flirtatious, and direct approaches from Mary Martin Judy Garland Greta Garbo and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onfacius
Confucius
Mary Martin
Daddy
Elinor Powell
Judy Garland
Clark Gable
Ilona Massey
Niagara Falls
Patricia Morison
Guy
Olympe Bradna
Judith Barrett
Connie Boswell
Leap Year Headache for Calendar Makers
A historical overview explains why leap years exist to correct drift from the solar year. It covers early calendars, intercalary months, and the shift from 365 to 366 days under Sosigenes and the Julian year, leading to Pope Gregory XIII’s reform in 1682 to skip century years not divisible by 400.
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Caesar
Sosigenes
Gregory XIII
OVIE stars and radio drama rise in Hollywood notes
Virginia Vale reports scarce acting radio spots as ZaSu Pitts joins a daily serial and Aileen Pringle plays a newspaper woman on Joyce Jordan Ferne. Aka Chase promotes a women world radio program with Luncheon at the Waldorf inviting 50 guests weekly. Details on Joan Fontaine Brian Aherne wedding trip and Edward Small’s Valentino casting buzz also appear along with Dr Christian star Jean Hersholt’s charity plans and assorted industry tidbits.
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Virginia Vale
Union
OVIE
ZaSu Pitts
Aileen Pringle
Joyce Jordan
Girl Inferne
Chase
Walert
Miss Chase
Vyvyan Donner
Twentieth Century-Fox
Joan Fontaine
Brian Aherne
Rebecca
Aherne
New York
Music Hall
Slim Silhouette Dress Pattern No. 1902-B Description
The ad describes a slenderizing dress with a slim waist and belt accent, Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1902-B for sizes 36 to 62. Materials and yardages are listed for size 38 with options for short sleeves, three quarter sleeves, braid or bias fold trim, and a collar contrast. Send 15 cents, name, address, style number and size to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Room 1324 211 W Wacker Dr Chicago Ill.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Button-front dress 1902 B style for house or street
A versatile button-front style (1902 B) offers roomy comfort and multiple trim options. The dress features a plain v-neckline or bias fold edging, a narrow roll collar, short or three-quarter sleeves, and fabrics from gingham to wool suitable for house wear or street wear.
Blood vessels line reach over two thousand miles
The answers state over 2000 miles for the vessels. The statue was shipped in cases after Paris exhibition. Runner’s second wind is heart rate adjustment to breathing. Mississippi river formed about 20,000 years ago in the late Ice Age. Monastery fruit is a rare Puerto Rican fruit tasting like pine apple banana. There are three primary emotions: anger fear love.
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New York Harbor
Paris
Puerto Rico
Hottest Man Made Flame Reaches 18300 Degrees Fahrenheit
The atomic nitrogen arc produces the hottest flame at 18300 degrees with nitrogen atoms splitting and rejoining as gas flows under 14000 psi. Chimney sweeps wear silk hats as traditional headgear. Hippos, though mammals, can walk on river bottoms and graze underwater vegetation.
Desperate Action At Infants School Sparks Alarm
An excited woman rushed into an infants school brandishing a heavy hammer seeking Miss Davids. The teacher fled as the principal urged a calm chat. The visitor shouted claims about her child ripping trousers and insisted on driving in a nail, threatening to act.
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Miss Davids
Rascal
Wise and Otherwise: Birthday, Year, and Steel Puns
A quirky editorial riff contrasts a young woman taking a birthday day off then a year off with a man starting a royalye on Monday and nearing Saturday. Another line notes a dawn riser missing a harvest sun. The piece closes with a pun about puppy love and concerns over forged steel as an inferior British product.
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England
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Vera Vague
Dorothy Lamour
Colleen Ward
Kathleen
Ellen Randolph
Darling
Greta Garbo
Hollywood
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Lana Turner
Madeleine Carroll
Edward Small
Jettera
Rudolph Valentino
Small
Jean Hersholt
Dr. Christian
Hersholt
Motion Picture Relief Fund
Screen Guild
Janet Logan
Paramount
Aha
CBS
Grand Hotel
Betty Lowderson
Howard Hughes
Eng
Katharine Hepburn
Jean Hart
Gene Autrey
Tikes
Soan
Brion Aherne
Behay
Los Angeles
Clark
Western America
San Anetica
Fifth
Hill Streets
Hotel Clark
P. G. B. Morriss
Smith Bros
Churchill
Fuller
Ag World
Ing
Bresda
Cianera
Ilonial
Shenandoah
Lowa
Prince Albert
Rolla
Geogrishs
Barnaldo't
Winstanfalen N.C
Racent Laboratory
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Meee
Riedel
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