Administration Giving No Serious Consideration To Reports Of Its Abolishment
Washington December reports from Hoover administration reiterate commitment to the gold standard and dismiss foreign calls for bi metallism or silver in currency. The piece notes rising pressure for tariff relief and currency adjustment with Senator Dill advocating monetary standardization linking U.S. policy to world currency values.
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Washington
Hoover
United States
England
Japan
Broadway Brightens With Holiday Openings And Surprises
New York theaters plan seven Christmas week debuts as Broadway expects about 30 productions in winter 1932 with roughly 25 holding into February. Highlights include Tonight or Never with Melvyn Douglas and Helen Gahagan, plus hits like A Church Mouse Ruth Gordon and The Left Bank.
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Gilbhert Swanner
New York
Green
Clairborne Foster
Cain's Warehouse
Broadway
Lynn Fontaine
Alfred Lunt
Basil Sidney
Marty Ellis
Helen Gahagan
Melvyn Douglas
Belasco
Hollywood
Miss Gahagan
Gloria Swanson
Melvyn
Gloria
Ruth Gordon
Claiborne Foster
Scale debate tightens on silver and gold basis policy
The administration argues against tariffs and broader currency via silver on a monetary basin with gold. Officials expect the gold standard to prevail through current woes while Britain falters. They foresee American bankers becoming global money brokers as gold nations may briefly yield to the expanding dollar.
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Senate
Britain
America
Pup Spot Climbs Fence to Stay With Runaway Boys
At Bemis Tennessee a bulldog named Spot, pet of Troy Spencer, slipped past a high wire fence and joined his young master and a companion who were held at the boys' reform school after running away. The dog remained inside the grounds overnight with them.
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Bemis
Tenn
Reform School
Spot
Troy Spencer
Christmas music funded by Alaska fish cannery profits
In Metalakatla Alaska the 60 member town band receives new instruments and a finished town hall funded by fish cannery profits. The town hall is noted as the largest in Alaska.
Wire theft halts telegraph service in Fort Scott
Thieves cut and removed 2,000 feet of telegraph wire from poles along Frisco railroad tracks, stopping telegraph service in Fort Scott Kansas for about a day. Police and railroad officials investigated the incident and awaited restoration of service.
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Fort Scott
Kans
Hollywood Sights as Sounds from the 1926 to 1936 Contract Shuffle
Hollywood notes trace the 1926 contract pool and its 1936 survivors, naming Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton, Norma Shearer, George O'Brien and others. The piece contrasts youth, rapid changes, studio shifts, and independent paths, with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks cited as steady presences. It also previews Norma Shearer returning to conventional roles and Lily white pictures rising in small towns, while Barbara Stanwyck shifts to So Big from earlier urban dramas.
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Hollywood
Leatrice Joy
Rod la Rocque
Jetta Gondal
Vera Reynolds
Harry Langdon
Madge Bellamy
Patsy Ruth Miller
Syd Chaplin
Alma Rubens
Colleen Moore
Monte Blue
Esther Ralston
Corinne Griffith
Olive Borden
Alberta Vaughn
Florence Vidor
Emil Jannings
Fred Thomson
Greta Garbo
Joan Crawford
Bill Boyd
George Bancroft
Buster Keaton
Charlies Farrell
Janet Gaynor
Ronald Colman
Richard Barthelmess
Dorothy Mackaill
Ben Lyon
Ramon Novarro
Norma Shearer
George O'Brien
Wallace Beery
Jean Hersholt
Bebe Daniels
Mary Astor
Richard Dix
Billie Dove
Pickford
Fairbanks
Swanson
Chaplin
Lloyd
Movieland
Mary Pickford
Douglas Faikrbanks
Tom Mix
Movietown
Hollywood Bvard
Sweetness and Light
Shearer
Norma
Norma Talmadge
Miss Stanwyck
Box Office Risefor Simple Homely Films
The box office success of plain, homey pictures such as Daddy Long Legs and Merely Mary Ann has prompted producers to rethink strategy and pursue similarly accessible fare.
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Mary Ann
Frank Fay shifts roles in Fool's Advice
Frank Fay, husband of Miss Stanwyck, directs produces and stars in Fool's Advice a story he wrote. He abandons the smart aleck debonair image to play a country boy trying to make good marking a departure from his prior screen persona.
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Frank Fay
Miss Stanwyck
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