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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1938
Page
15
Historical notes describe a revival mood in Broadway with renewed vitality after a long slump. Among 36 plays in New York since September 1 only four are nonmusicals and two broke even or better as the season begins. The Times Square environment shifts toward New World’s Fair entertainment drawing crowds.
Fragment references box office receipts and backers, mentions free tickets and fake attendance. Notes a show selling out partially and attempts to inflate perceived success. Lacks coherent subjects or dates.
The era’s theater scene shows strong musical comebacks with Hellzapoppin and The Boys From Syracuse drawing audiences, while Pins And Needles and labor staging shows rack up modest grosses. Hollywood optimism grows as Ragtime Band and You Take It With You gain traction. Verdi’s Aida opens to large crowds, signaling life in opera and cinema alongside labor unrest and economic decrees in Europe.
A roundup lists diverse incidents and statuses: birth of a princess to King Farouk and Fir Farida in Egypt. a landslide death of 150 British West Indians on St Lucia. the assassination of Sheik Abdul Rahman El Khatib in Palestine. John D. Rockefeller Sr left an estate of 26 410 837. John L. Lewis elected first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. eight army fliers killed in a Georgia forest crash. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Nansen International Office for Refugees in Geneva. Wilder McGowan lynched in Mississippi. seven crippled boys drowned in a Pennsylvania mine waterhole. deaths of Col Henry D. Lindsley ex Dallas mayor and Legion founder, journalist Ney Dutcher, pianist Leopold Godowsky, and Mrs Mary Lincoln Isham.
The Scottish Duchess of Atholl, elected to Parliament in 1923 and four times re elected, faces a by election after her Kinross and West Perth Unionist Association refused to renominate her. Her husband the Duke resigns as club president and supports her as an independent, though peers cannot vote. Vernon Bartlett wins the by election with a 2000 vote margin.
The article outlines a new federated structure for Czechoslovakia with autonomous western Bohemia Moravia Slovakia and Carpathian Ukraine from Prague managing defense and foreign affairs. It notes Hungarian shootings, German aims, and Japan’s stance on treaty principles amid shifting East Asian tensions. The piece cites Foreign Minister Chvalkovsky and state that Bul may protest U S positions.
The President, visiting Warm Springs for a Thanksgiving holiday, praises Georgia as his other state and warns it may lose all federal money for public works unless it cooperates with the federal government on PWA. He previously urged Georgians to replace Senator Walter George with Lawrence Camp.
Rene Belbenoit, a French WWI veteran jailed on Devil's Island in 1920 for theft, escaped after 15 years and 5 attempts. He fears extradition to France on December 15 and appeals to President Roosevelt with 6,000 supporters. He traveled to the U S with a 30 pound manuscript titled Dry Guillotine.
Seven peace organizations say fears of a fascist surge in the Americas are exaggerated and accuse Roosevelt of fear-mongering. Meanwhile the navy orders three 35 000 ton battleships at about 50 million each, and Britain and France plot defense plans with Germany and Italy. Germany’s navy today counts 26 000 ton battleships and 68 submarines among many ships.
The report covers Helen Hulick’s contempt conviction for wearing women’s clothing in court and its reversal on appeal. It also recalls the 1896 royal wedding of Princess Maud to Prince Charles, Maud’s later visits to England, and the Norfolk area death of Eugene Burckhalter with manslaughter charges against his wife.
A 1930s wartime mood piece reports on Jewish refugee plans and Nazi policies. Britain proposes relocating German Jews to colonies in Africa and South America. U S debates quota changes while Alaskan and Mexican resettlement ideas meet opposition. Germany enacts fines and purges while antisemitic actions spread to Danzig and Italy. The Dies committee cites numerous groups fueling anti Semitism.
Upcoming events include First Sunday in Advent on Nov 27, Republican National Committee meeting on Nov 29 in Washington, Monopoly hearings starting Dec 1, and a Dec 2 deadline for utilities to submit reorganizations under the holding company act. Also mark the 115th Monroe doctrine anniversary and Amateur Athletic Union gathering in Washington.
Summary prompts readers to find answers in last week’s page. Questions cover Kathryn Lewis Oswald Pirow first line war planes CIO meaning, Gov. Murphy backing a new 1940 party, and neutron rays new use. Each question carries points totaling 60.
The Bund leader Frite Kuhn claims the group aims to purge the United States of Jews, aligning with Hitler's policy in Germany. Nazi propaganda chief Paul Joseph Goebbels is cited questioning how to rid the world of Jews amid widespread anti Semitism.
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