Musical Is One of Best Ever Made at Center Theatre
The film stars Anna Neagle and Ray Milland in a lively Irish girl tale set in a fashionable gown shop. A pair of wealthy suitors sponsor her rise as a model heiress, with comic consequences as columnists reveal the truth and orchestrate two marriages. The Technicolor sequence in Alice Blue Gown stands out, with a March of Time short on The U S Navy 1940.
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Trene
Center Theatre
Anna Neagle
Ray Milland
New York
Madame Lucy's
Lucy
Marshal
Long Island
U. S. Navy
Roosevelt
Irene
March of Time
U.S. Navy Center
Neagle
Edith Cavell
London
Miss Neagle
Cartoon targets road official as war toll comparison sparks panel
A Raleigh cartoon mocking a state highway official was pulled from a weekly and sent to Tom Wolfe, prompting surprise as he received far fewer copies than other board members. Ronald Hocutt notes traffic deaths in seven years surpass wartime American deaths.
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Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Tom Wolfe
District Highway Commission
Commission
Mr. Wolfe
Ays Ronald Hocutt
Young Tom Edison opens at Paramount for two days
Mickey Rooney portrays a real life figure in his first biographical role as young Tom Edison. Virginia Weidler co stars as his sister opposite Rooney with Fay Bainter as Mrs. Edison and George Bancroft as Mr. Edison. The cast includes Eugene Pallette and others in a Hollywood biographical drama.
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Mickey Rooney
Tom Edison
Paramount Theatre
Rooney
Tom _ Edison
Mickey
Virginia Weidler
Hardys
Hollywood
Fay Bainter
Mrs. Edison
George Bancroft
Edison
Eugene Pallette
Victor Kilian
Robbie Jordan
J. M. Kerrigan
Lloyd Corigan
John Kellog
Clem Bevans
Eily Malyon
Harry Shannon
British Planes Bomb Italian Armament Works
In the first 24 hours of Italy entering the war the Royal Air Force says two heavy bombers attacked the Ansaldo works at Genoa and the Fiat factory at Turin. The crews flew over the Alps through a heavy snowstorm and used oxygen masks at high altitude.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Italy
Ansaldo
Genoa
Fiat
Turin
Alps
State Highway Division Notes NC Death Toll Compared to War Dead
The State Highway Safety Division remarks that North Carolina’s road toll this year is improving but remains as high as the county average when compared with war dead, highlighting persistent high fatalities.
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State Highway Safety Division
North Carolina
North Carolina alien registration law 1927 summary
The Bolich bill requires aliens in NC to register within 90 days of arrival and within 90 days of entry for those new. It mandates reporting name nationality birth date prior nationality occupation address and references, plus names of five long known associates and last residence outside NC. It demands passport proof and two passport size photos with a clerk stamp. A $1 registration fee and possible misdemeanor penalties for noncompliance.
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Bolich
North Carolina
United States
Woodring bids farewell urging defense with country security in mind
Former Secretary of War Woodring, writing in the Army and Navy Journal, stresses that defense progress must continue with priority on national security. He recalls seven years of service, thanking military leaders and staff for progress that improved the nation’s defenses.
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Washington
Woodring
Army
Army and Navy Journal
Senate
Roosevelt
Europe
Asia
Susan and God at Center Theatre with Crawford and March
The Center Theatre hosts a three day stand of Susan and God with Joan Crawford as Susan and Fredric March as Barrie Trexel though not God in person. The play by Anita Loos follows Susan’s flirtation with religion and its hollow consequences, after a Broadway sensation.
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Joan Crawford
Fredric March
Susan
God
Center Theatre
Crawford
March
Fredric
Barrie Trexel
Anita Loos
Noel Coward
Gertrude Lawrence
Miss Crawford
Sister Reunites After 40 Years At Morris Spector Jewelry
In Appleton Wisconsin on June 22 a woman walked in for glasses and revealed she was Mrs Helen Sobel sister of Morris Spector of New York. Spector considered glasses but did not buy and the two siblings reunited after four decades.
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Appleton, Wis
Morris Spector
Spector
Helen Sobel
New York
Susan God opens at Center in Crawford March co starring
Crawford and March star in Susan God at Center Theatre for a three day run. Ruth H. leads a cast including Rita Ha, Bruce, and John Carroll in a witty yet dramatic tale of a socialite who preaches virtue while chasing her own fame. The program also features the short The Flag Speaks and a schedule of patriotic shorts.
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March
Susan God
Center Theatre
Susan Trexel
Crawford
Ruth H
Charlotte
Barrie
Rita Ha
Ora
Stubbs
Bruce
Clyde Rochester
John Carroll
Anita
Susan
Ord
Odrain
God
Joan Crawford
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