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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
3
The Monroe Little Theater presents Three Cornered Moon in the Northeast Center auditorium Friday at 815 pm. The article notes the show and venue details for local theatre fans.
Reviewers hail the Little Theater production for its satirical arc from fortune to penury as the Rimplegar family self destructs. Mrs Rimplegar’s grand misjudgment leads to a drastic fall, while the children enter the workforce in harsh times, and the clan remains illogical and off kilter throughout.
The Twin City Community Chest board met at the Chamber of Commerce. They approved the first four months financial statement and adopted a resolution praising citizens and contributors for the chest’s successful first campaign.
Dr. M. E. Dodd of First Baptist Church Shreveport spoke to the Monroe Rotary Club at noon Thursday on international relations. He described an 18 000 mile trip by air visiting 14 South American countries, lending first hand insight to his address.
Entries in the Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce local merchants the Garden club and the News Star World will close at six o clock tonight. By noon Friday 15 residential entries and eight commercial entries had been received. The University of Paris was founded about 1200 by King Philip II.
Dr. M. E. Dodd spoke to a full second floor audience on his 18 000 mile air journey across South America detailing 74 takeoffs 1800 hours in the air and 15 evangelistic sermons. He praised South American missions noting a Rio de Janeiro church with 2000 seats and a university president who started as a mission convert.
Representative Mills reports that Jackson Parish has been allotted funds for road construction in Wards and Vernon town, via the WPA. The notice mentions a wartime paper industry shift and references Dr. Rider as a distant WPA administrator.
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