Studio anecdotes and casting notes from film sets
Virginian Vale reports on Western star Robert Taylor checking his six shooter with extras on Billy the Kid and a cautionary wristwatch frisk on set. Ona Munson recalls typecast fears after Gone with the Wind and mentions future roles including Lady From New Orleans and radio work with Edward G Robinson.
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Billy the Kid
Robert Taylor
Metro
Gene Lockhart
Lon Chaney Jr
Norman Willis
Grant Withers
Taylor
Gone With the Wind
Ona Munson
Belle Watling
New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
Edward G. Robinson
Shirley Temple Returns to Star Status in Panama Hattie
The report notes Shirley Temple's comeback with a $2,500 weekly salary for the film Panama Hattie, alongside stars Ann Sothern Eleanor Powell Connie Russell and Red Skelton. It also covers Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve and Barbara Stanwyck's evolving look and roles, plus Horace Heidt’s shift from trained-dog vaudeville to radio success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Temple
Metro
Little Miss
Panama Hattie
New York
Ann Sothern
Eleanor Powell
Connie Russell
Red Skelton
Shirley
Henry Fonda
Chad Hanna
Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas
Horace Heidt
Heidt
Horace
Lobo
Frontiersman Style School Life in Tokluma
In Tokluma Alaska, the narrator faces a hostile teaching post under Miss Teetzel while reconnecting with Sidney Lander. He befriends Katie O Connell, tends sick children, and weighs a possible move to Wasilla as a favored outpost on a larger claim plot. Lander hints at plans tied to the Chakitana project and the Trumbull outfit, shaping the immediate future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordova
Sidney Lander
Sandy
Chakitana
Law of the Frontier
Tokluta
Hand of Mercy
Tokluma
Teetzel
Katie O’connell
Matanuska Valley
Miss Teetzel
Katie
Doctor Ruddock
Wasilla
Juneau
Katie O'Connell
Fairbanks
Lander
Trumbull Outfit
Avalanche of Bad Luck Has a Good Side Too
Pierre Lardi aged 16 from Poschiavo Switzerland survived being buried ten feet under snow for a quarter mile in an Alp collapse near St Moritz. The late train crew cleared the track and found him unconscious but alive. he recovered with bruises in a St Moritz hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poschiavo
Switzerland
Pierre Lardi
St. Moritz
Lardi
St Moritz
Alabama guards disqualified for literacy at civil service test
Two Alabama convict guards who showed up for a state civil service examination could neither read nor write and were automatically disqualified.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Philadelphia Woman Wins $100 Electric Bill Prize
Mrs W H Nefferdorf wins a $100 award from the Philadelphia Electric Company for keeping an electric bill dated April 11 1887. The contest was sponsored by the utility.
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Philadelphia
W. H. Nefferdorf
Philadelphia Electric Company
Scalding Bath Fatal for Camden Woman
Mrs. Ella Irwin Nekervis aged 61 of Merchantville died in Cooper Hospital after falling into a bathtub filled with hot water and being badly burned.
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Camden
N. J
Ella Irwin Nekervis
Merchantville
Cooper Hospital
Boy loses sense of touch after electric shock
Charles Leonard of Indianapolis aged is reported to have suddenly lost all sense of touch after a 220-volt shock. Doctors at Indianapolis City Hospital study his case and seek a satisfactory explanation while noting he remains otherwise normal and not in immediate danger.
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Charles
Indianapolis City Hospital
Young Leonard
Waiting Desert Death Inspires Last Will Change
Dr. John E Wolff 83 emeritus geology professor at Harvard revised his will while stranded in the Mojave desert awaiting death. He added a codicil replacing a deceased employee with a gardener and pasted a napkin note on his car windshield. His body was found five days after he headed on a desert expedition. he had previously left most of his estate to Harvard.
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Alaska
Blackwater Pass
Seattle
Columbia
Lander
Sidney Lander
Eric the Red
Kenneth Coburn
Klondike Coburn
Pasadena
Calif
John Elliot Wolff
Harvard University
Mojave
Harvard
John K. Wolff
Dr. Wolff
Albino Robin Seen in Lorain Yard
Lorain Ohio resident Mrs Alvin Fletcher reports a pure white bird in her back yard likely an albino robin joining cardinals and blue jays. In Boston, David Brass was fined 78 dollars after two speeding arrests by the same officer at the same location.
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Lorain
Ohio
Alvin Fletcher
Cardinals
Blue Jays
Boston
David Brass
Cow-Bomb Defense Fails to Ground Milk Charge
In London farmer Charles James of Barry Wales was acquitted of selling milk deficient in butterfat after arguing that German bombs frightened his cows, causing the thin milk.
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London
Charles James
Barry
Wales
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper
Union
Lockhart
David Miller
University of California
Warner Bros
Ate Reynolds
Mary Dugan
Mary Andrews
Rudy Vallee
Rudy
Vallee
Gene Autry
Fort Worth Stock Show
Arthur Stringer
W. N. U. Service
Carol Coburn
Carol
Eric
Red Ericson
Seward
Resurrection Bay
Far-North
Miss O'Connell
Europe
Houston
Texas
Karl Karnaky
Karnaky
Duke University
American Medical Journal
Indianapolis
Charles Leonard
Professor Alters Will
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
Christian School of Nursing
Robert Jolly
R. N
Memorial Hospital School OF Nursing
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