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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
2
A portrait of Miss Bonney rising from a Syracuse student to a war photographer with Croix de Guerre honors and a role in Bonney & Co. The piece also tracks QUIS B. Mayer, MGM executive, from sea salvaging to Hollywood chief, noting his 1940 salary and ascent in the film industry.
A roundup of Hollywood film news notes many changes and casting shifts. Edward Arnold sheds 35 pounds for Nothing But the Truth after an on set injury. Ellen Drew headlines The Parson of Panamint with a future The Silver Queen vehicle. Bill Boyd extends his Hopalong Cassidy run in Secret of the Wastelands. Ginny Simms signs with RKO to continue radio and film work. Jean Arthur pivots toward Miss Susie Slagle's lead role at Paramount. Harold Winston, once Bette Davis's first theater job, becomes Capra era dialogue director. Look Who's Talking. Bergen and McCarthy headline a radio audience to film, with Lucille Ball in A Girl, A Guy and A God. Anne Rooney debuts as Metro’s new teenage singer.
Obert Breenan, Ireland's minister to Washington, advised on food and arms from the United States and once wrote for American pulp magazines. He was jailed in Dublin Cork Dartmoor and Gloucester during the war against the Black and Tans and was later named undersecretary of the foreign office by De Valera in 1920.
Dennis Morgan leads Warner Bros. Carni val in Rio while Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sign for nine Fox pictures. Al Pearce’s announcer Ven Niles appears in Republic’s Puddin’ Head. Rudy Vallee John Barrymore tour continues all summer. NBC’s Ted Steele rose from page to host. Alice Faye Don Ameche set for Honeymoon in Havana at Fox. Alexis Smith stars opposite Errol Flynn in Dive Bomber.
A Bennington museum holds a rifle claimed as the 50 caliber gun used by Lieut. Col. Martin Scott. The tale links Crockett to a coon interview, but the original hero of the yarn is Scott, a Bennington native and sharpshooter. The gun was made at Harper's Ferry in 1814 and first used in 1818 in the Fifth Rifle Regiment.
The article recounts Martin Scott's early life at Fort Howard Wisconsin and Bennington Vermont, his bear killing at age 12, and a legendary tale of a coon encounter. It covers his rise as a marksman in the Fifth Rifle Regiment, a dramatic shot on a card target, and his death at Molino del Rey in 1847 after returning home wealthy.
A vivid guide explains how a bright new slip cover transforms an old sofa into a stylish piece. The 32 page booklet details exact cutting and sewing steps and diagrams and covers chair covers too. It includes fabric and color tips and instructs readers how to obtain a copy.
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