Noted Stage Hit Film Cast Draws Full Star Lineup
Director Edmund Goulding explains the need for an impressive cast in Vicki Baum stage hit turned MGM film. He cites equal roles for multiple stars Greta Garbo John Barrymore Joan Crawford Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt to preserve characterization and production value.
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Edmund Goulding
Vicki Baum
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Greta Garbo
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Wallace Beery
Linel Barrymore
Lewis Stone
Jean Hersholt
Goulding
Lionel Barrymore
Daily Cross Word Puzzle Across L Story and Southern Constellation
Puzzle text fragmented with many garbled clues. Readable clues mention various themes and scattered words such as catnip lambs Persian vairy renunciation and others. The legible items hint at a mixed crossword with numbered entries and a solution from yesterday.
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L Story & Southern Constellation
Urecin Bovice
Prenix
Star cast fuels efficient filming at Strand Theatre
The article notes high costs were offset by star power as Garbo Barrymore Crawford and Beery delivered flawless performances without direction. Scenes that would have taken longer with lesser actors clicked off with timetable precision. The picturization of a famous novel and play opens Sunday at the Strand Theatre.
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Miss Garbo
Strand Theatre
Hold Em Jail at Opera House Delivers Prison Football Farce
The RKO Radio comedy Hold Em Jail stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey as pair of scheming inmates in a bidemore penitentiary gridiron scene. Edna May Oliver Roscoe Ates and Edgar Kennedy headline with Warren Hymer Paul Hurst and famous all American football stars in mock lineups. The film offers slapstick gags and spoof athletic exploits in a wildly exaggerated prison sports setting.
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Edna May Oliver
Roscoe Ates
Wheeler
Woolsey
Bidsmore Penitentiary
Bidsmore
Edgar Kennedy
Betty Grable
Bidemore
Funeral for Thomas Symes Held Near Rosemont
Funeral rites were held this morning for Thomas Symes who died at his Elk Creek home near Rosemont Thursday night. Rev. Fred Harris led services. Symes, a farmer, is survived by two brothers Elmer of Parkview and Fred Symes of Fond du Lac, and two sisters Ellen at home and Matie both of Fond du Lac.
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Thomas Symes
Elk Creek
Rosemont
Fred Harris
Mr. Symes
Elmer
Park Vit
Fred Symes
Fon du
Wis
Ellen
Fon du ‘Lac
Matie
Two Women Convicted in Mingo Assault Case
In Mingo County Circuit Court Judge Reno F. Howard fined Tennessee Nichols and May Dotson one cent each and ordered about $100 in costs for assault and battery against Mrs Oma Dotson. The prosecution cited officials for permitting the case to reach trial with high costs.
Nick Carroll Kills A Deer Near Hazleton W Va
Nick Carroll from the DeLuxe Greek restaurant in Preston county near Pine Run shot an eleven point buck weighing about 200 pounds. He fired four times with a Winchester pump gun to drop the deer after spotting it in a buckwheat patch while pursued by other hunters. The six year old buck carried eleven prongs on the left antler with two small protrusions and one short prong on the right. Harry W Nicola joined Carroll on the hunt and Carroll noted it was his first deer in this country. Hunters say Preston and nearby Pennsylvania counties have abundant deer and many sportsmen in the fields.
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Nick Carroll
Preston County
Pine Run
Pennsylvania Line
Hazleton
W. Va
Carroll
Entler
Harry W. Nicola
Old Country
Preston
Pennsylvania
Dallas Wolfe
Otto Waugh
Emory Ellers
Diphtheria Closes Flemington Central School
One diphtheria case at Flemington Central School led Dr. R D Stout county health officer to order the school closed for a week. Astor School, shut earlier for two scarlet fever cases, will reopen Monday. No new cases reported apart from the Flemington case. The child vomited in class and Dr Stout fears germ spread and has immunized several children.
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Flemington
R. D. Stout
Astor School
Drunk Pleads For Bed At Squire's Office
Two men who were heavily intoxicated entered Magistrate Wittman’s office in the afternoon seeking shelter for a drunk companion. Constable Gozik advised them to leave a flop house, but they insisted they were fine. The drunkest was later placed in a jail cell to sleep it off.
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John Wittman
Gozik
Hungry Delegation Marches Toward Congress Demand
A large group calling themselves hungry and unemployed crossed Parkersburg tolls and camped outside the city. Led by a figure funded group, they aim to present a demand for employment relief and food to Congress convening Monday. The city police and Maryland state troopers have been reinforced in anticipation of possible unrest.
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George Henderson
Maryland
Grafton
Parkersburg
Congress
Threats Charged in Cumberland March Disturbance
In Cumberland Mayor Henderson proclaims threats by advance marchers demanding food tonight or they'll seize it by force. Over 900 special officers are deputized, national guardsmen on call, with contingents from Pittsburgh Uniontown and western counties converging toward the capital as thousands head to Washington.
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Cumberland
Henderson
National Guardsmen
Grafton
Pittsburgh
Uniontown
Keyser
Winchester
Thief Caught Robbing House at Rhode Island College
Kingston RI December 3 A thief was discovered by the matron of the Sima Kappa sorority house at Rhode Island State College robbing the house. He warned the matron against crying out and fled after taking some clothing valued at about 100 dollars. He had earlier entered a men’s fraternity house. College police arrived while women students slept.
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Kingston
Sima Kappa
Rhode Island State College
Germany Wins US Mixed Claims Ruling On Black Tom Kingsland
Umpire Owen J. Roberts ruled in favor of Germany in the Black Tom and Kingsland cases, nearly 40 million dollars in dispute. The decision, final in these reopened cases, upheld findings tied to destruction of the Lehigh Valley Black Tom terminal in New Jersey and the Kingsland munitions plant in New Jersey, with the United States alleging German agent involvement.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Mixed Claims Commission
Germany
Kingsland
Lehigh Valley
New Jersey
N. J
Canadian Car and Foundry Company
United States
Wesleyan Stars Leave For North South Game
Buckhannon, Dec 3, Tom Blondin and Tubby Edmundson star guard and center of the West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats football team left today for Baltimore to report to Coach Dick Harlow of the Southern team for the North South game on December 10. Both players have been excused by the faculty for any school they might miss and are in fine physical condition to report.
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Buckhannon
Tom Blondin
Tubby Edmundson
West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats
Baltimore
Dick Harlow
Harlow
Governor Conley Urges Bible Sunday Observance
Charleston dispatch reports Governor William G. Conley urges churches in West Virginia to observe Universal Bible Sunday on December 4. He appeals for religious participation and promotes the Bible Society's efforts nationwide.
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Conley
Charleston
William G. Conley
Churches of West
Universal Bible Sunday Observed by Churches Worldwide
The International and Interdenominational Agency promoted Universal Bible Sunday after distributing nearly ten million scriptures in fifty countries and over 200 languages last year. Morissett cited Virginia living within its income with no deficit, while Dr Sly outlined West Virginia’s government expense control and the need for an executive budget and post passage administration.
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Moriisett
Virginia
West ‘Virginia
Sly
Morrissett
Man Ends Family Row by Trapping Wife in Folding Bed
Oakland reports a violent domestic scene where George Reid allegedly forced an end to a dispute by locking his wife inside a folding bed placed on its side, an action described by authorities as an extreme, troubling display. The incident occurred on December 3 in Oakland, with local details incomplete.
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Oakland
Calif
George Reid
Reid
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