Lost Generation man arrives at Glendale in a tangle of love and work
Jim Fielding visits the MacPhersons in Glendale after leaving college during the Depression. He hunts for independence and love as he takes a handyman job for the Vaughns. He meets Dolly and Cecily Vaughn, learns of Cecily’s secret, and faces tensions around loyalty, wealth, and a possible romance with Lenore.
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Jim Fielding
Glendale
the MacPhersons
Mac
T. H. Vaughn
Meadowbrook
Jim
Kay
Lenore
Dolly
Vaughns
Cecily
Tommy
Vaughn
Susan Vaughn
MacPhersons
Mr. Vaughn
Jeremy Clyde
Meadowbrook's Surprising End to Weekend Plans
Jim weighs life at Meadowbrook versus Roselyn as Susan charms him with a pink dress and new look. Cecily teases, while Susan reveals her insecurities about beauty and belonging. A coin toss and a dance invitation foreshadow choices as dusk falls on the estate.
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Lynn Fontanne
Jim
Mrs. MacPherson
Cecily
Jim Remembered. He Remembered, Also, That He Had Observed To Mrs. MacPherson
Susan
Monkey
Meadowbrook
Lenore
MacPhersons
Vaughns
Wilfred
Miss Parker
Roselyn
Dolly
Seeing Eye Dogs and Warner Brothers Star in New Film Mix
The Seeing Eye, a Morristown New Jersey school training police dogs for the blind, inspires a starry Warner Brothers picture with the Ritz Brothers and Alice Faye. News notes cover Paramount’s Gettysburg project, Spring roars with The King and the Chorus Girl and History Is Made at Night, plus child prodigies Betty Jaynes and Suzanne Larson joining studios.
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Warner Brothers
Morristown
N. J
Eustis
Switzerland
United Artists
Fernand Gravet
Charles Boyer
Motion Picture
Hollywood
Betty Jaynes
Bing Crosby
Metro- Goldwyn - Mayer
Suzanne Larson
Mendelssohn
Diane
Dwight
Chapter V A troubled moment before Lenore’s party
Jim writes from his Meadowbrook cottage far from Roselyn and Lenore. Half-dressed and damp from a shower he resents the invitation he promised to decline but feels bound by an earlier pledge. He struggles with the social obligation and its burden.
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Jim
Lenore
Roselyn
Meadowbrook
Shrimp Diversity and Habitat Across Coastal Regions
The text notes many shrimp species resembling lobsters, living in shallow sandy shore areas across numerous countries. When frightened they burrow into sand using their tails. Most shrimp are harvested in nets near beaches at high tide.
Connie Sews Her Own and The Chic Twins Frock Talk
Dialogue about spring fashion and self sewed dresses features Connie and family friends discussing outfits. It promotes Barbara Bell patterns and the pattern book with sizes, yardage, and order details from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. Chicago.
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Sis
Connie
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Kipling Reaffirms Devotion to Son in War Anecdote
The Boston Post recounts Rudyard Kipling's reply to a stranger who asked if he was the father of the author’s son John Kipling killed at the front in World War I. The poet replied that his son was his son, and denied being identified as the poet.
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Freddie Bartholomew
Kipling
Hollywood
Franchot Tone
Virginia Bruce
Anthony Adverse
Paris
Napoleon
Gloria Swanson
Deanna Durbin
Hollymee
Rudyard Kipling
Boston Post
John Kipling
Burwash
England
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Vida Larrimore
Tahl Lerrim
Mr Vaughn
Rose
Janeea Ee
Susie
Parker
Father
Star Dust Movie Radio
Virginia Vale
Boston
Ritz Brothers
Twentieth Century- Fox
Brother Jim
Alice Faye
Tony Martin
Don Ameche
Gertrude Niesen
Jimmy McHugh
Harold Adamson
Paramount
Western Newspaper Union
Chapter
New Pattern Book
Great Kipling
Phillips
George Rector
America
Columbia Network
Blackman
Blackman Stock Medicine CO
Chattanooga, Tenn
Photography
Toccoa
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