12 Feb 1937
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1937
Page
1
The Star states tributes and memorials including cards of thanks or resolutions are charged. Commercial newspapers resist space demands in news columns and disclaim responsibility for safeguarding or returning unsolicited manuscripts.
Medical guidance details liquid diet for young victims, rest for heart, and careful post recovery heart checks. It notes early antitoxin dramatically lowers death risk, and urges isolation and separate feeding utensils for the patient. Carrier management may involve tonsil/adenoid removal and nasal throat cleansing.
Aspirants rehearse for two weeks before tests costing about 500 dollars each, covering crews and makeup. Claudette Colbert once steadied Fred MacMurray’s nerves with a wink, illustrating the impact of experienced actors. Sylvan Simon, Universal test director, emphasizes coaching, first impressions, and honesty over rehearsed but empty stage talk.
Olive Roberts Barton urges parents to let children cure fears themselves with subtle support. For a phobia like a child’s fear of sliding, the article recommends quiet presence, an encouraging agent, and gradual exposure, stressing that broad patting or overprotection harms progress.
Hollywood reports mass screen testing for leading roles as thousands of feet of film are exposed yearly. Fresh faces vie for futures, with many enduring six month groping waits before a full test is granted.
Detectives interview Mrs Jocelyn and Count Posadini aboard a yacht amid a high society murder involving Rockavage Blane and Diane. Shorthand notes reveal alibis and conflicting times as Inspector Kettering probes the night of the killing, with Nicholas Stodaklt and others mentioned in a tangled plot.
This feature notes how refrigeration and space limits shift beer storage from heavy stone steins to the compact Schlitz Steiner Brown Bottle. The Steinie keeps bottle advantages like light protection and sealing while adding compactness, weight reduction, and fiberboard packaging for modern homes and small kitchens.
In Douglas Kansas a coon captured by a dog sparked play but drew in another neighbor’s dog. The second dog joined the fray and ended up battling the first dog who had come to help the coon.
Bruce Catton debris aside, the piece extols The Haunted Omnibus edited by Alexander Laing. It gathers forty two chilling tales from Poe and James to Crawford and Middleton, notes 800 plus pages, and recommends spending chilly winter evenings dodging shadows and spirits.
The studio director notes most faces are uneven for photography, citing common faults in women’s teeth and men’s eyes. He favors actors with cultural or university backgrounds, believing acting is an intellectual craft learnable through instruction.
The article recalls Marshall’s assertion that it is the province of the judiciary to say what the law is and notes historians debating Jefferson’s reaction. It contrasts Marshall’s stance with Andrew Jackson’s later challenge to judicial authority, previewing tomorrow’s discussion of the Jackson Marshall duel.
The arson trial is continued after the defense declined to call witnesses and refused to interrogate them. The defendants spoke Welsh until an interpreter was provided for the jury. A defender argued that English jurors cannot connect with justice, asserting only jurors from their own nation could. The formal plea remained not guilty, tied to nationalist ideals, though one man faced a distinct claim.
In Philadelphia a tiny lizard named Neglecta, about the size of a lead pencil, waited 49 years for recognition after arriving from South America in 1887 with other lizards. Researchers Emmett Heid Dunn and Jean Pratt reexamined the shipment and confirmed Neglecta as a new species.
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