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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1930
Page
6
An essay warns of love thieves who steal happiness and hearts by manipulation. It contrasts a cruel rival who schemes to ruin happy couples with those who seek sympathy and flattery. The piece then notes an upcoming bookish tea and book shower event hosted by business and professional women. It closes with Betty Carstairs planning a world voyage in a three masted schooner after another Harmsworth trophy bid.
Week of events lists book shower tea by the June BPW club, a Catholic Ladies Altar Society bridge for St Matthew's, PTA meetings, YWCA glee club and dramatic club at various times. Lion's Club dinner dance July 1 and a Fourth of July breakfast dance with a ten piece orchestra from midnight to dawn at the Edgewater Country Club.
Mrs B W Leigh introduces her daughter in law Mrs Ned Leigh at a series of informal summer gatherings at her home. Guests enjoyed bridge with floral decor and lace gloves favors. A luncheon followed with a long list of attendees including Mrs George Trousdale and Mrs S E Huey. Concert broadcast planned tonight featuring Oliver Palmer, Elizabeth Lennox, Paul Oliver. President Hoover to unveil James Buchanan statue in Meridian Hill Park with 3:30 PM WEAF WJZ coverage.
WABC will air the Poughkeepsie Intercollegiate Rowing regatta on the Hudson starting at 3 30 pm with Ted Husing announcing from the Robeson II and WABC distribution nationwide. The regatta will be carried on WJZs network from 5 15 pm with Graham Mc Namee and James Wallington as NBC announcers and extra west shore observers. Intermittent broadcasts continue until 6 pm with musical interludes from New York studios.
Mrs Gordon Campbell Cummings figures prominently in Monroe society with recent entertaining honors including a Lotus club luncheon hosted by Mrs John Collens and Miss Marie Collens. The event featured a gold trimmed table, a gift of cut crystal goblets, a five course menu ending with white bride’s slippers filled with ice cream and blue sherbet. Attending were numerous society ladies and debutantes such as Mrs Gordon Cummings and Miss Alyce Florsheim among others.
W K and Mrs Benjamin Dawkins plan a few days of pleasure during the Delta Sigma fraternity national convention in which W K is a member. Mrs Dawkins and daughter will spend weeks in New Orleans where Judge Dawkins presides over the federal court and Benjamin Dawkins Jr attends a Tulane summer course.
William Seymour Edwards of New York was seriously hurt after a Wichita plane crash that killed his companion Leopold Schumacher a 25 year old Swiss student at Stanford. The craft ran out of gas and stalled while landing in a wheat field near Schulte.
Business and Professional Women's club seeks book donations to fill their empty Jackson Street library. Members urge Monroe residents to browse shelves, lift out unread volumes, and loan or donate books to equip a clubhouse with a homey, book-filled atmosphere.
Mary frets that Philip Veritzen will derail her party but Madge Lillian and family vow to deter any mischief. No public scenes, smuggling Noel in, and a plan to keep the date safe. Mary then leans on her aunts as the phone interrupts with a new call.
Veteran actor and Repertory Theatre of Boston director Henry Jewett died suddenly at his West Newton residence The Branches on Tuesday. He led the company for years and was a noted stage figure in the Boston area.
Mary Lou, considered a "nice girl," agrees to a limited engagement to Tony Titherington to help fund his world flight while he swears off marriage. Tony reveals his plan to use the engagement as a social ruse, hoping to avoid love while Mary Lou weighs the risk and benefits of the arrangement.
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