Theatres line up next week with many double features
Dickinson Theater shows Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild with Melvyn Douglas at Granada for four days starting Sunday. Varsity screens Shirley Temple Captain January and The Magnificent Brute with McLaglen and Barnes midweek, plus Guard That Girl and The Music Goes Round. Additional bills at Patee and Granada include The Green Pastures and Winterset, with other pairings and first runs noted.
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Dickinson Theater
Irene’ Dunne
Melvyn Douglas
Varsity Theater
Shirley Temple
Captain January
Victor McLaglen
Binnie Barnes
Robert Allen
Florence Rice
Harry Richman
Claudette Colbert
Ricardo Cortez
Beak Gibaon
Patee Theater
Vietor McLaglen
Binnie
Barnes
Hewine
Robert Wayne
Eior
Brute
Steele
Ranger
Mongan
Lionel Barrymore
Irene Dunne
Dickinson
15 year old opera star hailed as medical phenomenon
Betty Jane Schultz, a 15 year old soprano known as Praise Girl Singer, is praised by Dr. John J. Killeen for an anatomically perfect vocal apparatus. He predicts a remarkable career with Chicago Opera and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracts. Betty and her manager plan screen tests in New York as she signs major deals. The article also notes a gift subscription offer for the Journal-World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Killeen
Chicago City Opera Company
Betty
Betty Jane Schultz
Chicago
Paul Longone
New York
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
UPA
Betty Agn
Campaign to expose Craig Reynolds goes awry in film world
Alexander targets Craig Reynolds in a bold effort to reveal the insipid movie hero. He falls in with a gangster whose cronies slug him on air and threaten further harm. Glenda Farrell Hobart Cavanaugh George Stone and others appear as this radio man faces danger amid shorts and a Vitaphone Pictorial and a comedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Nagel
Alexander
Hollywood
Craig Reynolds
Glenda Farrell
Hobart Cavanaugh
George Stone
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Clinton Belvoir Thanksgiving and community notes
Clinton Belvoir items record Thanksgiving visits with Moran and Lawrence relatives, moves, illness recoveries, a quilting club gathering of twelve, 4 H banquet attendees, church activities, choir cantata plans, Christmas program practice, and local residents' news including a teacher and injuries from a car incident.
Local events and visits noted in parish and family notices
Children attend a Santa parade in Lawrence with parents. Belvoir Royal Neighbors met with Mrs. Chester Baldwin with many members listed. January meeting planned with Mrs. Leslie Demeritt. Lawrence visitors Mrs Jude Anderson and Mrs Emmet Smith attended an all day church meeting. Arthur Losh returned from Topeka to resume carpentry work. Mrs Ward home from Concordia to care for ill father Mr Smith. Harold spent time with his mother in Sterling.
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Leslie Demeritt
Demeritt
Moran
Glenn Jackson
Lawrence
Clinton
Harriet Hume
Overbrook
Carter Anderson
Quilting Club
William Johnson
Harold Hodges
Harold Herschell
Francis Rice
Toveke
George Jensen
Harry Unger
Virginia
Marjorie
Louise Baldwin
Civen
Louise
Bertha Rondebush
Harry Murphy
Ruth Ann Murphy
Jude Anderson
Maggie Gibler
Presbyterian Church
J. H. Kennison
Kansas City
Leslie
Dean Murphy
Murthy
Fred Demeritt
Meek
Moses
Santa
Belvoir Royal
Chester Baldwin
George Houk
Maggie Bidinger
William Murphy
O. A. Bidinger
Elmer Sawyer
William Exing
Roy Harrell
Leni Murphy
Emmet Smith
Charles Boerkircher
Washington Creek
Arthur Losh
Topeka
Ward
Concordia
Smith
Harold
Sterling
Ottawa Area Socials and Visits Include Law rence Trips
Excursions to Lawrence mark the midweek activity as Mr. and Mrs. J L Montgomery and children with others attend a public sale northeast of town, while Ottawa shoppers and local families frequent gatherings and a birthday dinner at Claude Buckner's home. Andrew Lutz attends William Schoepflin funeral. Mrs Todd dies Sunday with services held Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Montgomery
Roy Shuler
Dorothy
Lawrence
Faye
Etta Montgomery
Paul
Gretchan Zimmerman
Will Gray
Ottawa
Kansas City
Will Peffrg
Eva Haas
Andrew Lutz
William Schoepflin
Lyndon
Schoepflin
Todd
League of Voters Favors Full Time Health Unit
At the December 10 meeting the Lawrence League of Women Voters read a letter to the Douglas county commissioners about establishing a full time health unit. The league supported the proposal, directing the secretary to inform the commissioners. The stance aligns with National and Kansas Leagues, stressing prevention and extending service to rural areas for high efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence League of Women Voters
Douglas County
Lawrence Citizens’ Chuir
League
National League
Kansas League
Christmas church events advertise services and programs
A local church page lists December activities across multiple congregations. Church of God on New Jersey Street invites all to morning and evening communion and a 7:45 prayer meeting led by B. I. Burnam Sr. United Brathren on Holloway Hall details Sunday school at 9:45 with John’s Vision on Patmos, 10:45 preaching on The Message on Christmas, 6:15 Christian Endeavor led by Dorothy Jones followed by a Christ song-story The Traveler. St Luke A M E on Ninth and New York notes 3:45 Sunday school, 11:00 devotion and sermon The Eternal City, 6:30 A C E League, and a 7:45 sermon Gone Haywire. Bishop Taylor and singers will perform Monday December 14 at 3:00 at the St Luke church, headed by the leader of the largest spiritual church in Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God
Church of Christ Chapel
New Jersey Street
W. L. Post
B. I. Burnam, Sr
United Brathren Church
Holloway Hall
Nineteenth
Massachusetts ‘Street
Arthur Ward
John
Patmos
Harry Greeg
Dorothy Jones
J. Harold Shanklin
St. Luke A. M. E
Ninth
New York Streets
L. E. Mathis
Louise Garrett
A. C. E. League
Detla Bryant
Bishop Taylor
Missouri
Kansas
Mister in Danger in Ice Queen Palace Rescue
Mister the wooly pup braves the Ice Queen palace alone to find his trapped daughter. Winds attack as the Fairy Queen intervenes, sending Mister tumbling to safety while Nils clutches the pup and awaits a plan. The Fairy Queen then reveals herself and vows aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Nils
Mister
Captain Buttons
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Burgess Meredith
Margo
Granada
Granada Theater
Meredith
Winterset
Gene Raymond
Ann Sothern
Eric Blore
Carter
Ross Alexander
Betty Jaynes
Journal-World
Fuer Geoney UF
Johnny
Laok
Clinton-Belvoir
Maxwell Anderson
Orva Dodson
Pictorial
Margo-Eduardo Clannelli
Broadway
John Carradine
Edward Ellis
Mary of Scotland
Edward Will
Edward
Wally
Baltimore
Excelsior
League of Voters
Viking
The
Ee Nils
Tainment
Center of
Bing Crosby
Louie Armstrong
Madge Evans
Edith Fellows
Theodora
Homer
Comedy
Lin'yrars Oy
Teene
Diane
de Sant
the Family Theater
Patee
Charles Butterworth
Hugh Herbert
Ois Ciba
Ren Seamen Area
SYA Staloe
Met
Wasner Bese
Mery Cannctty
Wee
Evighton
G Elvyn Douglas Thomas Mitchell
Thornton Hall
Rosalind Keith Spring Byington
Nino Martini
Gay Desperado
Leo Carrillo
Ida Lupino
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