Hollywood sophisticates chosen by Melvyn Douglas in 1933
Hollywood gossip notes from June 23 recount Melvyn Douglas naming Greta Garbo Dorothy McGuire Myrna Loy and Katharine Hepburn as the year's most sophisticated women. Donna Reed awaits MGM co star for Monty Stratton film while June Haver plans Memphis visit. Esther Williams adds a bathing-suit scene to Take Me Out To The Ball Game. Mercury-era filmium chatter, studio moves, and capsule reviews follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greta Garbo
Dorothy McGuire
Myrna Loy
Katharine Hepburn
Douglas
Hollywood
Garbo
Loy
Hepburn
McGuire
M.G.M
Monty Stratton
Gary Cooper
Cooper
June Haver
Memphis
Esther Williams
20Th Fox
Inner Aid Medicine Real Relief For Gas Constipation
An advertisement claims INNER AID three days use cleanses the body of waste, ends headaches, clears pimples, and relieves rheumatic knee pains. It promotes twelve herbs that cleanse bowels and aid stomach, liver, and kidneys, urging miserable people to buy at drug stores.
Pepsi-Cola Family Sweepstakes Prize Offer
Pepsi-Cola runs a nationwide contest offering a top Family Sweepstakes Prize of 25000 dollars with monthly cash prizes. Enter often. every entry receives a Treasure Certificate. Contests close June 30, 1948. Look for Treasure Tops bottle tops with hidden designs under the cork. Collect and swap to complete the set. Pepsi-Cola Company of Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepsi-Cola
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Ruston
Smoke Signals Close Prairie Grove School
Oklahoma City June 23 A prank by Miss Ruth Shote Edmond Okla using smoke signals to suspend classes nearly closes the Prairie Grove school The three day snow absence record drops the year’s daily attendance to just under thirteen prompting state education officials to seek guidance on whether a school can go up the chimney and be annexed for under attendance.
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Oklahoma City
Prairie Grove
Ruth Shote
Edmond
Okla
State Education Department
Miss Shote
Eddie Higgins
Education Department
Knights of Columbus Planning Major Initiations
A special meeting will finalize ballot ing on candidates and plans for a large class initiation Sunday. Candidates meet at the K of C hall at 8 a.m. proceed to St Matthew's Church for 9 a.m. mass, then a breakfast. Exemplification of degrees starts 10:30 a.m. at Hart street council chambers.
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Knights of Columbus
K. of C. Hall
St. Matthew's Church
Council Chambers
Hart Street
Spider spins silk with 680 tubes and cords from six fingers
The diadem spider uses 680 silk tubes and can form a single cord of 680 strands by bringing together its six spinneret fingers.
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Mackenzie
DeWitt Mackenzie
Associated Press
Cominform
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
A. A. Zhdanov
Palmiro Togliatti
Rome
Jacques Duclos
Paris
United States
Warsaw
Bolshevists
Europe
France
Italy
Western Hemisphere
Russia
Redcominform
Asia
Baltic States
Bulgaria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Albania
Red Armies
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Scandinavia
Melvyn Douglas
Donna Reed
Miriam Hopkins
New Yorker
Ava Gardner
Grauman
Joel McCrea
Frances Dee
Darryl Zanuck
Warners
20Th Century
Bowery
Wally Berry
Jackie Cooper
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Universal
Bing Crosby
Paramount Pictures
Marion Davies
Clark Gate
Samuel Goldwyn
Nana
Anna Stew Myrna Loy
Max Baer
Primo Carneva
High Seas
W. B
Pepsi-Cola Company of Texas
Destiard
Roebuck and DO
Pilgrim
Waikiki
Sears
DeSiard St
Rayon Sport
Cotton Union
Nainsock
K. OF C
Actra Finance Co
Louisiana
Monroe
Quachita Parish
North 2Nd ST
Ely
Aetna
Aetna Finance Co
North Second ST
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