Cinderella Gene Tierney presses stage goals with movie start
Gene Tierney, 2 years into film work, plans six month cycles between Hollywood and New York. She hopes to balance cinema with stage, aiming for a return to live theater every six months. The Bridgeport, Connecticut native describes her rise from socialite to actress and her dream of a honeymoon on the Italian Riviera.
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Robbin Coons
Hollywood
New York
Gene Tierney
Frank James
Miss Tierney
Howard S. Tierneys
Bridgeport
George Abbott
Tierney
Elliott Nugent
James Thurber
Gene
Riviera
Social Calendar July Events at First Baptist Church
Tuesday social plan lists First Baptist Sunday school at the church with a picnic in the Park at 7. W. Drill team meets 7:30 p.m. All members urged to attend. Business and Professional Women's club holds its regular monthly meeting at the Barlow at 7. Wednesday July 10 Happy Neal Weeking Club hosts 9:30 a.m. Thursday July 12 dance at the skating rink with Tommy Kinser and his orchestra.
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Finin Cinxs
First Baptist Sunday School
Woodman
Business
Barlow
Happy Neal
Billy Finh
Local church circles host mission study and arts events
Circles of the W S C and First Baptist Church unity host mission study sessions on Our South American Neighbors and The Ties That Bind while Circle Number 7 earns praise for attendance. Hope student Sterling Cook unveils a 15 ton statue at Texas State Teachers College in Benton with open house and studio tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M.C
First Baptist
Chureh
Martie! Inligs Cirele
First Baptist Church
Ww. M.S
Nalon Welco
Henry Haynes
Develione
W. C. Page
Wilbur Breed
Circle Number 7
Hope
Texas
Sterling Cook
Wane
3. D. Cook
Art Worth Star
Navih Texas State Teachers College
Benton
Cook
Arkansas
NTSTC
Court of Chilton Fail
Onn
Onny
Touls Hoover
Cink
Ias Wen
Vanston
Dallas
White Memorial Museuns
San Antonio
New York City
Personal Mention Miss Weeks Guests in Chicago En Route Home
Miss Dorothy Weeks of Chicago was the weekend guest of Mrs. H. M. Sis. She was en route to her home in Texarkana.
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Dorothy Weeks
Chicago
H. M Sis
Texarkana
W. E. Jones
New Orleans
G. B. Breeding
Local social notes list Miss Worrell and many visitors
Kan sas City guest Miss Mary Elizabeth Worrell visits Hope with friends. Various residents and visitors like Miss Marie Cross, Mr and Mrs Cloud Johnson, Mr and Mrs Elmore Kent, and others travel or host in Texas, Hot Springs, Washington, and Texarkana. Engagements and weddings hinted with plans for July 21. Page updates show moving, hosting, and trips across Arkansas communities.
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Mary Elizabeth Worrell
Kansas City
Worrell
Senderson ‘State Teachers’College
Arkadelphia
Elmore Kent
Cleveland
Olio
Kent
John Kent
Texas
Marie Cross
Alford Borman
Boreman
Hot Springs
Cloud Johnson
Washington D. C
Jahmson
Lynda Jean
J. B. Ellen
Washington
Arkansas
Roy Powell
Texarkans
Co AL Newberry
Betty Louise Newberry
Lloyd M. Stevens
Willkie Rise in Utility Law and Corporate Power
A profile of Willkie tracing his early law career with Mather & Nesbitt, defense of large utilities, and growing influence. By 1929 he heads a merged utility group forming Commonwealth & Southern. Cobb foresaw his potential and urged rapid advancement.
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Willkie
Firestone
Af Mather & Nesbitt
B. C. Cobb
Mather & Nesbitt
Cobb
Unitity
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
Waning Destiny of Wendell Willkie in New York
A fragment recalls Wendell Willkie as general counsel for Commonwealth and Southern in New York. It notes his unease with Wall Street and the Chase National Bank building where his office sat on Pine Street. It also references Cobb selecting Wendell Willkie in 1943, and a line on historical charters and the Alaskan brown bear.
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New York
Wendock
Commonwealth
Southern
Willkie
Wall Street
Chase National, Bank
Lower Manhattan
Pine Street
Cobb
Wendell L. Winlkle
Harrison in Hollywood: Peculiar props and jungle sets
Hollywood gossip piece notes Paramount’s tropics themed pictures amid jungle sets and Hays Office vocabulary. Dorothy Lamour, Betty Field, and Fredric March are featured on exotic locales with snakes and panthers, while talcum powder substitutes for black powder in gunfire effects.
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Hollywood
Paramount
South Sea
Fredric March
Joseph Conrad
Betty Field
Dorothy La‘mour
Peace Sails and Secrets on a Troubled Express
Denny hunts for Peace on a crowded train after she vanishes between cars. He recovers the child from a locked drawing room then learns she has a turtle pond and a planned gift of a goldfish. A telegram from Bertrand hints at further trouble as the journey ends in Albuquerque.
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Denny
Seon
Carole
Caleb Ogden
Rhoda
Boston
Peace
Ogden
Darby
Jonny
Kansas City
Albuquerque
Mrs. King
Carole Love
Currys
Tilly
Inglans
Peace Warren
Rhoda Lowell
Bertrand
Tax measures and referendums under 1939 acts and amendments
Twelve bills propose a library tax and a millage for police and fire pensions. Referendums review the Workmen's Compensation Act and Venue Act changes, plus Governor Bailey's highway bond refunding act. The 1939 Legislature also seeks three constitutional amendments including highway revenue allocations and tax exemptions, and repeal/re-enactment of Amendment No. 29.
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Bailey
Swelling Freighter Threatens to Sink on Sandbar
Report outlines a Danish cargo ship idle in harbor amid Germany conquest. Soy beans damp and swelling in hold push plates, risk of hull breach as two tugs aid the freighter, while Captain Bullwinkle and Annie Brennan watch. Ratoff shifts roles between acting and directing in The Great Profile.
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Tughoat Annie Company
Annie
Bullwinkle
Germany
Annie Brennan
Sumrail Continues Special Services at Hope Tabernacle
Evangelist Lester Sumrall leads nightly services at Hope Tabernacle, discussing Black Magic and the fate of women in the Orient. He claims Christian nations grant women greater freedom, while other faiths enslave them, with sessions set through Thursday at 8 p.m.
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Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Lester Sumrail
Sumrall
Orient
America
J. E. Hamill
Placid Oil to test new Magnolia field well in 19-17-19
Placid Oil Company booth B-1 in Magnolia field underwent washing after casing perforation on Monday. The well in section 19 17 19 SE SE is poised as a potential producer, with total depth 7648 feet and edge location near field boundary. A tentative east offset for a second Placid well was planned in section 20 17 19.
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Magnolia
Ark
Placid Oil Company
Booth
Elberta peach harvest expected late this week or next
Nashville district growers anticipate a late start for Elberta peaches with some orchards waiting until the last of next week. The crop is described as potentially large and high quality, with weather dictating harvest timing and color development. Mildew prevention measures have yielded good results, and price prospects look firmer after the Dominos crop failure.
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Thes
Willkie and Lincoln Nomini Similarities Compared
Shelby, Richland county, Ohio, notes that Wendell L. Willkie echoes Lincoln in 1860 style nomination drama. The piece recalls Seward’s early strength, late shifts by Ohio, and the hall antics. It comments that Lincoln won via decisive backing while Willkie would face similar political dynamics if elected.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Wendell
L.willkie
McKinley
Abe” Lincoln
Wendell L. Wills
New York
William H. Seward
Old the Railsplitter
Jincis
Pennsylvania
Simon Cameron
Diana
Lincoln
Seward
Ward Hill
Conventii Hall
Licain
Ohio
Albany
Willkie
Wendell L. Willkie
Politia
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Jiurez
Mexico
Camacho Party
France
Constante
Bennett
Dolores del Rio
Claudette Colbert
International Committee For Refugees
Tommy Kinser
Brid Nis Orchesten
Women's Society For Christians Service
Methodist Church
W. S.C
First Methodist Church
Mrsus George Ware
Varias
Gill Lawis
Merledime Webb
Misa Claudii Ace
Rialto
Wayne Morris
Priscilla Lane
Brother Rat
Ally Ann
W. GC
Preacott
Arlist Brown
Bernton
Royce Smith
South Main Street
K. J. Kaplinger
Pardyce
Ralph Qwen
Shreveport
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J. Glenn Coker of
Bearden
Gost
John Ridgdil
Wanda Andres
Emmet
John Thames Andres
Myrtle Baker
Texan
J. L. Green
Presbyterian Church
Mia. Young Foster
George Hosmer
Catherine Simms
W. R. Herndon
Paul Simms
Martha Cantley
Louise Bond
Will Ed Waller
Louise Honegan
Katherine Mae Simms
Olin Murphy
Virginia Burkey
Saenger
Corporation
United States
Simsbury
Conn
Harrison IN
Paul Harrison
NEA - Service
Robert Preston
Isasec Watt
Belove Ich
Cwrode
Ean
Kanana City
Vence
Aunt Rhoda
Gregory Ratoff
John Barrymore
Walter Lang
Ratoff
Harry W. Shiver
Sumrail
Will
Nashville Ships
SWIFT
Suck Diamond Cafe
Abe
Shelby
Richland County
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