Palace Theatre double bill features Mutiny On The Blackhawk and Granny Get Your Gun
Palm Springs era notes describe Mutiny On The Blackhawk with stars Arlen Devine Moore Beery as a bold slave ship mutiny and California coast battles. Granny Get Your Gun stars May Robson with Davenport in a courtroom comedy drama powered by frontier grit and gunplay. Northwest Passage with Spencer Tracy and Walter Brennan in Technicolor follows Sunday Monday March 8 and 9. The program also highlights The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk Tuesday March 5 and Broadway Melody of 1940 with Fred Astaire Eleanor Powell and George Murphy showcasing dance talent and cinematic spectacle.
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California
Palace Theatre
Richard Arlen
Andy Devine
Constance Moore
Noah Beery
Granny
May Robson
Harry Davenport
Hardie Albright
Spencer Tracy
Walter Brennan
Northwest Passage
Tracy
Major Rogers
Hardy Rangers
Young
Brennan
Saturday Evening Post
Hollywood
Fred Astaire
Bobby Qonnelli
Eleanor Powell
George Murphy
Lynne En
Murphy
Mr. Morgan
Derden outlines plan to fund pensions via revised gasoline tax
Texas gubernatorial candidate Albert L. Derden proposes shifting the gasoline tax to raise state revenue for old age pensions, education, and health. He opposes a sales tax, favors higher natural resource taxes, and calls for divorcing oil pipelines from refineries to curb monopolies. He argues a one cent per gallon refined tax would boost revenue while reducing consumer costs on in-state purchases.
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Marlin
Spl
Albert L. Derden
Derden
Felows
Peter
Paul
Texas
Entertaining Dance Film Delights Audiences This Week
A lively episodic entertainment features dance numbers and by play with constant tempo. Highlights include Trixie Firschke’s juggling routines and Mr. Morgan’s difficulties with an ermine coat loaned to several women. Ends Wednesday and Thursday.
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Trixie Firschke
Mr. Morgan
Texas soil conservation expands acres under program in 1939
Almost 3 million acres in Texas farm and ranch land were placed under soil and water conservation in 1939, bringing 24 years of gains to 16 million protected crop acres while 14 12 million still need protective measures. Detailed figures show terracing of 766,211 crop acres and contour farming on about 1.5 million acres. County-led efforts in 172 counties added 410,991 acres of terracing with 66,362 attendees at 1,094 meetings explaining the law.
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College Station
Texas
Soil and Water Conservation
U. S. Department of Agriculture
M. R. Bentley
C. (Dutch) Hohn
Texas A. and
M. Extension Service
AAA
Texas Soil Conservation District
Morris Ranch Social Notes and Obituary Update
Morris Ranch gatherings include visits by Miss Velma Barrett and Miss Mildred Byrd from San Antonio. Tea honors for Miss Cornelia Faye Stewart draw Mrs. W Byrd and others. Arthur Usener had appendicitis surgery. Reginald Morris toured San Antonio. Frank Webb, former Morris Ranch clerk, dies aged 69 after years in Eldorado.
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Velma Barrett
Sweetwater
Maud Barrett
George Bierschwabe
Hugo Usener
Virginia
Allen Usener
Bob Mayes
Eden
Mildred Byrd
San Antonio
Ben Walker
Frank. Staudt
Helotes
Agriculture Building
Cornelia Faye Stewart
Mesdames W. Byrd
A. C. Hermann Oliver Rabke
Chas. Weber
Otto Grona
Reginald Morris
Elder Smith
Geo. Bierschwabe
Arthur Usener
Frank Webb
Eldorado
Morris Ranch
Old Car Fate Joke Tells of Sellers and Father
A humorous exchange asks what happens to an old car that stops running and answers that someone sells it to the father. The line is tied to a subscription mention of Harper Horn.
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Bill
Frock Of The Week Showcases Sophisticated Hollywood Style
The fashion feature highlights a Jersey-like fabric dress worn by Toby Wing. Details include a spencer throat neckline, white edged trim, side folds, shoulder tilt sleeves, long draped folds, and a sleek long slim skirt with zip fasteners. Best in plain black or blue.
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Yeats & Tans
Hollywood Stars and Radio Gigs Dominate This Week
Ingrid Bergman hears applause outside a hotel room in Hollywood as fans gather during rehearsals for Radio Theatre. Bob Burns jokes about California rain on his NBC show while plans for We the People tour widen. Rush Hughes arrives with twelve filing cabinets for Hughesree scripts as Edith Meiser notes 2500 volunteers for What Would You Have Done. Five dollars per usable suggestion is paid.
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Ingrid Bergman
Hollywood
N Blue
Confession Reveals Wife Shot Husband After Father Threat
Eddie recalls marrying a girl whose act saved him by stopping her father from shooting. Mitsiya, the man, was shot at close range by his wife. Evidence points to powder marks supporting a close contact discharge.
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Eddie
Jerry
Mitsiya
Appletizers Debut In Second National Apple Week Taste Drive
Miss Cora Anthony presents a group of appletizer recipes to launch Second National Apple Week in February. The drive promotes surplus apple crops and stabilizing farmer returns. Read notes show canapés with red apples, spreads like cream cheese and anchovy, and bite sized skewered combos such as salami and pickled onion.
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Cora Anthony
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