Models to Movies and Stars Who Bend to Hollywood's Rush
A radio and film column notes how models pursed for pictures often vanish after contracts end, while some rise briefly then fade. It highlights Anita Counihan and Mary Kornman, Hall Johnson Choir, Douglas Fairbanks Sr plans, and success tales of Eugene Conley and John Laing transitioning from ordinary jobs to screen work.
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Hollywood
California
New York
Anita Counihan
Bits
Eugene Conley
Lynn
Mass
Conley
Chicago Opera Company
John Laing
Double Bedspread From 10 Yards Of Taffeta
Reader asks Ruth Wyeth Spears how to cut 39 to 40 inch taffeta to make a double bedspread with minimal waste. Instructions cover cutting the center panel, joining ruffle pieces, generous seams, and welted seams. Book references for full directions and sewing guidance offered with autographs and mail order details.
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M. G
Spears
The Last Step
A short-sighted man attempts to choose glasses. The clerk notes the frames are No 2. The man asks what comes after No 2 and is told No 1. The clerk adds a final quip that after No 1, the man will want a dog.
Conversion and Treachery in Party Politics
Quip from Stray Stories contrasts a defector with a political convert. A father asks about a traitor while his son probes the meaning of switch from one party to another, concluding with a definition for a convert.
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Stray Stories Magazine
Trains Seen as Dangerous by Smith and Jones
Local discussion notes trains are perilous with the last car repeatedly wrecked. Smith questions rail safety and Jones suggests removing the final car to prevent damage.
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Smith
Jones
Poosie It Men Feminine Teed Appe143 Adolphe Me King
Fragmentary text hints at radio programs and 1940s film figures Carole Lombard and Cary Grant. Names scattered include Crosby and Vallee with Western newspi. No coherent event or narrative usable.
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Adolphe
Crosby
Vallee
Tse
Carole Lombard
Cary Grant
Tibet Allows English Climbers on Everest After Cash Outcry
English climbers are the only ones permitted by Tibet to ascend Mount Everest. Since 1922, five failed expeditions and one flight have cost at least 500000 dollars, with odds of reaching the peak placed at fifty to one.
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Mount Everest
Tibet
Mount
Everest
Cokler’s
Creomulsion Promises Relief for Persistent Coughs
A vintage drug advertisement urges readers with lingering chest colds or bronchial irritation to try Creomulsion. It claims fast relief even after other remedies fail and promises a money back refund if not satisfied, urging shoppers to ask for the genuine product from their druggist.
Beautiful Modesty Observed in Classic Verse
A reflective line praises modesty as beautiful yet warns that a single word or glance can shatter pure affection, attributed to Tupper.
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Io Top
ED Wheelan
Toper
Frank Jay Markey Syndicate, Inc
Alta
Flanagan
Skook
Led WiesUo
Lala Palooza
Zeero
Gonzales
Rube Goldberg
AGURP
Ambrose
By C. M. Payne
R * OmMarrer
Coopis
BY S. L. Huntley
Prof
Hypno
Old Fyer
By & ZL
Huntley
U. 8
J. Millar Watt
Will
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Doug. Sr
Virginia Vale
Mary Kornman
Oliver Hardy
Harry Langdon
Hall Johnson Negro Choir
Douglas Fairbanks Sr
Fairbanks
Lord Byron
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
Wal
Gluyas Williams
Junior
Western Newspi
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