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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1937
Page
7
Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard star in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Romeo and Juliet presented at the Paramount starting next Saturday. John Barrymore returns to the screen as Mercutio in this acclaimed adaptation with a celebrated supporting cast.
A ten million ton floating dry dock built as a Works Progress Administration project near Tampa Florida has reached completion. The facility marks a major investment in maritime infrastructure and employment during the period.
Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins star in the RKO photoplay The Woman I Love at the Paramount Thursday and Friday. The romance centers on two French flying comrades and a beautiful girl during World War I, adapted from L Equippage by Joseph Kessel.
The MGM musical Born To Dance returns to the Carolina theater through Monday. Eleanor Powell stars in a lavish show with a nautical theme featuring Cole Porter music. The production employs over 250 dancers and more than 200 instrumentalists and singers, and Powell performs fourteen dance varieties, including a six-dance medley and leading a 75 piece band.
The piece recalls soldiers fighting over no-man's land and their perilous rescues while maintaining romances with women they left behind. It centers on courage, sacrifice, and the personal costs of war.
The North Carolina convention of the Church of God with about 2000 delegates will begin a four day meeting in Charlotte on Wednesday.
Raleigh May 8 Fully 42 per cent of North Carolina milk dealer scales were found inaccurate and condemned for repairs. C D Baucom chief of weights and measures said inspectors tested all creameries in the state over two weeks. Despite low accuracy the report notes improvement since two years ago and suggests no widespread fraud.
Jeweler Samuel Hyman displays coronation themed items at 128 South Main featuring a replica of two Longines watches made for King George VI and Queen. Originals valued at 1600 dollars. replicas priced around 100 dollars. Swiss government planned gifting two originals, others allocated to US officials and a reserve copy. A large portrait of King George VI from Simon Elwes decorates the window.
A drama of a millionaire, his family, and a killer plot unfolds in Sin ner Take All at the Broadhurst theatre. Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay and Joseph Calleia star as danger and suspense envelop a newspaper world amid romance and thrills.
ASHEVILLE May 8 Troy Blankenship a 5 year Yancey county farmer was hospitalized after a gunfight with peace officers. Sheriff Harmon Edwards said Blankenship was shot when he opened fire with a shotgun as officers tried to arrest him on a drunkenness charge.
Fred C. Willig a 38 year old bartender was acquitted after jurors sniffed his coat and found the odor of whisky implied he was intoxicated while driving. The trial in Buffalo New York hinged on the belief that the smell came from his coat rather than his breath and the jury delivered a verdict of acquittal.
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