Mister Big Arrives at Center Theatre Wednesday
Mister Big brings Hollywood youth stars Don O Connor Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan to Center Theatre for a two day run. The musical comedy features song and dance with Ben Carter Choir Ray Eberle and Eddie Miller Bob Cats providing numbers. O Connor and Jean perform popular tunes including This Must Be a Dream and Moonlight and Roses with We ll Meet Again by the Ben Carter Choir.
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Peggy Ryan
Donald O'Connor
Jacks and Jills
Mister Big
Gloria Jean
Robert Paige
Ben Carter
Ray Eberle
Eddie Miller
Bob Cats
Center Theatre
Don O'Connor
Hollywood
Buddy Pepper
Inez James
O'Connor
Freshmen and Upperclassmen Dunked After Tug-of-War at Chicago
At the University of Chicago the annual tug-of-war between freshmen and upperclassmen ended with no winner. With no decision, a new ruling dunked all participants in Botany Pond.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Botany Pond
First U.S. public high school founded in Boston in 1821
The first public high school in the United States began in Boston in 1821, marking a milestone in American secondary education and local educational reform.
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U.S
Boston
Phantom of the Opera Opens as Hollywood Thrill Classic
Phantom of the Opera opens today at the Center Theatre with Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster and Claude Rains in a Technicolor production filmed on a lavish scale. The Gaston Leroux tale blends romance mystery music and drama as Paris Opera scenes are recreated and the Phantom haunts the grand building.
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Claude Rains
Susanna Foster
Christine
Center Theatre
Nelson Eddy
Hollywood
Gaston Leroux
Soldier builds hospital from salvaged planes
Lieut. George E. Brown of Los Angeles operates an air base dispensary built almost entirely from salvaged aircraft parts. He crafted shelves from plexiglass from cockpits, used old oxygen tanks for sprays, and repurposed navigator chairs from a strafing Mitchell to equip his eye clinic. Brown emphasizes using available materials to meet medical needs.
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New Guinea
INS
George E. Brown
Los Angeles
Brown
Mitchell
Theaters Hers This Week at Theaters Hers This Week
Movie listings for the week feature Phantom of the Opera with Nel son Eddy and Susanna Foster, Old Army Game cartoon, Mr Big with Gloria Jean and Donald O Connor, and a slate of shorts and news reels. Also shown are Two Tickets to London adventures, Avenging Rider, Flight for Freedom with Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray, and musical acts plus Lum n Abner live acts.
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Michele Morgan
Alan Curtis
Rosalind Russell
Fred MacMurray
London
Broadhurst
Paramount Theatre
Nelson Eddy
Susanna Foster
Walt Disney Color Cartoon
Gloria Jean
Donald O'Connor
Priday
Merle Oberon
Brian Oherne
Paramount News
Paramount
Flight For Freedom
Frank Albertson
Maris Wrixon
William Holden
Susan Hayward
Bellnat Donald
Disney
Pete Smith
Lum 'N' Abner
Thieves Steal Rugs and Whistler Painting at Denver Home
Thieves struck the Denver home of Mrs. Florence Kistler while she was away, taking rugs tapestries and china valued at 17000 including a Persian rug worth 12500. A Whistler painting titled Sunset valued at 2500 was also stolen. National wealth hit 362 billion in 1929, equaling 2987 per person.
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Denver
Florence Kistler
Whistler
Shoemaker Calif postoffice mix up and local bus ruling
The piece notes Shoemaker California exists as a town without a post office while Shoemaker, Calif., designation serves Pleasanton Navy mail overflow. It also mentions changes in travel for Kewanee Ill. students where the evangelization board restricts vehicle use for transporting students to prep grid games, threatening loss of line coupons.
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Pleasanton
Calif
California
Shoemaker
Oak
Kewanee
Ill
Pines
Evange
Oberon Stars In New Film Comes Courage at Center Theatre
Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne lead a drama at the Center Theatre in Comes Courage a wartime romance. The plot follows a highborn Norwegian woman and a British captain forced to hide personal life for war duties.
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Courage
Center Theatre
Merle Oberon
Brian Aherne
Oberon
Brian
Miss Oberon
Norway
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