Mountain Mystery Brings Stranger to Mill Home
Virgie Morgan refuses a marriage proposal from Wallace Withers and he leaves in anger. Branford Wills, a government survey worker lost on the mountain, finds refuge at the Morgan home and falls ill with pneumonia. Marian Morgan disapproves of the arrangement but the stranger must stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgie Morgan
Morgan
Carolina Mountain District
Wallace Withers
Virgie
Branford Wills
Wills
Marian Morgan
Daniels
Lucy
Tanley Daniels
Mrs. Gill
Morgans
Mr. Daniels
Mr. Withers
Stanley Daniels
Withers
Mountain town faces shifts as Virgie acts bold
Virgie Morgan manages a tense morning at the Morgan mill while government men retreat to Washington and Perry Bennett resists selling. Tom worries over Wills and a looming Bennett offer as Lucy Fields supports Virgie amid pneumonia news and office routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgie
Tom
Washington
Bridges
Wills
Perry Bennett
Tuckaseegee
Bennett
Marian
Ada Clark
Lucy
Lucy Fields
Virgie Morgan
Gregg
Stanley Daniels
Tom Pruitt
Mountain mill town romance tests a chemist's aim
In a remote Ozark mill village, young chemist Stanley Daniels clashes with class and ideals. Lucy Fields admires him while fearing his distance as old residents debate future business and bloodlines. A wary Withers offers a chance for fresh influence and change.
Mountain Love Turns on Hardened Trail of Fate
Virgie Morgan encounters two city men on a foggy mountain road while searching for land once owned by Pruitt. The tense exchange hints at broader family ties and looming financial troubles as Ada Clark and Marian nurse ailing memories and wary emotions amid harsh winter weather.
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Virgie Morgan
Hazel Fork
Virgie
Pruitt
Tom
Phillips
Screen Radio Highlights Stars and Upcoming Films
Martha Scott, from Jamesport Missouri, reflects on her rise from teacher to actress with credits including Our Town and The Howards of Virginia. The piece notes a major cattle stampede sequence in Arizona with Jean Arthur and William Holden, Ingrid Bergman in Legacy, and Metro’s Keeping Company series. Also mentions Carol Bruce’s shift to Broadway and Hollywood, Horace Heidt’s Pot o Gold, Rosemary Lane's radio move, Lana Turner and Judy Garland in The Ziegfeld Girl, Melvyn Douglas signing with Metro, and Jack Oakie’s three-picture Fox deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jee Scott
Bishop
Tay Garnett
Scott
Jamesport
Kansas City
Ida Lilly
Martha
University of Michigan
College Repertory Company
Thomas Wood Stevens
Bonstelle Theater
Detroit
Stevens
New York
Rosemary Lane
Dane
Lana Turner
Judy Garland
Hedy Lamuart
Melvyn Douglas
Metro
Myrna Loy
Jack Oakie
Fox
Back in the Morgan House Marian Watches Branford Wills
Marian Morgan sits with Branford Wills in his fevered room at the Morgan house while Ada Clark dines nearby. Illness rattles Branford as he hallucinates, claiming the girl is not real. He complains of fever and asks for ice on his tongue as the scene ends with lingering illness.
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Mother
Marian
Ada Clark
David Morgan
Morgan House
Marian Morgan
Branford Wills
Household Questions and Simple Kitchen Tips
A collection of practical home advice including restoring brick color with a soda pumice salt paste, preventing milk curdling with a pinch of baking soda, soaking dried prunes before slow simmering, using milk bottle rinse water for plants, borax in wash water for soft white fabrics, and brushing ham with butter and mustard then heating to serve with creamed potatoes and peas.
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Hawke Wind
D. Appleton-Century CO
W-N.a. Service
Helen Topping Miller
Sarley Daniels
Morgan Mill
Lean
University of Missouri
Ozark Country
Carolina
Bry Hutton
Lassie
Sas
Virginia Vale
Western
Union
Arizona
Rattlesnake Canyon
Tucson
Jean Arthur
William Holden
Ingrid Berman
Columbia
Robert Sherwood
Frank Morgan
Irene Rich
John Shelton
Ann Rutherford
Virginia Weidler
Gloria DeHaven
Carol Bruce
Ben Bernie
Louisiana Purchase
Waldorf Serf Room
Hollywood
Universal
Horace Heidt
Frankie Carle
Fred Lowery
Boniface VIII
NESCO
Rhee
Milwaukee, Wis
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