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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1932
Page
7
Hollywood gossip notes Lionel Barrymore says he never wanted to be an actor and still prefers privacy. A Hollywood corridor vignette describes his dressing room routine, door locked and rarely opened, as part of the star’s enigmatic persona.
The article portrays Lionel Barrymore as more than an actor. He prefers painting and music, recounting his Paris years and saying acting is work and profitable, while art was his true desire. He notes he returned to acting to earn a living, despite wanting to be a painter.
A newspaper column presents autumn salad ideas from Sister Mary Kiichen including fruit and vegetable mixes such as an Autumn Salad with pears apples ginger celery walnuts and grapes and a Celery Salad with olives pepper and Roquefort. A third recipe, Edley Salad, centers on turnips celery pineapple and horseradish with a lemon oil dressing.
Public health teams in the Canal Zone deploy an airplane to spray infested areas at 150 feet. The operation targets mosquito hotspots and reports satisfactory results from the aerial campaign.
Moscow reports Transvaiatein now handles all Soviet civil aviation and has opened new passenger routes from Moscow to the industrial centers of Stalingrad and Magnitogorsk, signaling rapid growth in Soviet air power.
Hartford report by J. E. Hoskins Travelers assistant actuary shows a passenger death rate of two per hundred thousand passenger hours and five per hundred thousand flights. Last year yielded one fatality per 19 246 passengers carried.
Air service from Sydney supplies fresh meals to gold miners in the Morobe gold fields of New Guinea. Food is flown to Salamaua and delivered to back country mines within an hour of loading.
Air lines carried 67 995 passengers and 11 279 pounds of express in August 1932. In July the figures were 53 759 passengers and 87 591 pounds of express.
Adjutant John O Beirne commander of the High Point Salvation Army post returns from a two day North and South Carolina division field officers conference in Charlotte. The meeting covered development and training of local officers and national religious revival. Over 100 officers attended with talks on corps development youth programs and federal relief. a plan to aid transients and a program for 16 to 18 year old boys was announced.
Miss Virginia Frank announces a partial list of musicians for the Musical Art club program. Soprano Miss Alice Herman of Thomasville will perform The Cry of Rachel and The Hills of Home, with accompaniment by Mrs. R W Crows. Local student Robert Liverman will perform piano pieces.
The article notes an original composition Etude in A minor will be performed by the club. The Women’s Chorus will sing two numbers. At the September meeting dues were reduced. Mrs. H T Hudson invites applications from interested musical people in the city.
A goldfish kept sealed in an air-tight globe reportedly lived for three months at North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo, illustrating remarkable endurance under confined conditions.
A fragmented ad-like snippet touts Black-Draught as a remedy for constipation and sluggishness. Mentions users Mia, Frank Champion, Lynne of Arkansas and references syrup style branding.
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