A River Queen Show Boat Spat Heats Up On New Year’s Eve
Melissa endures Dolores’s meddling on the River Queen as Jimmy Marston’s engagement ring and a bitter quarrel swirl amid two New Year’s Eve performances. Randy intervenes, threatens Dolores with salary loss, and backs Melissa’s solo as the crowd cheers to salvage the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeary
Melissa
Dolores
Jimmy
Jimmy Marston
River Queen
Randy
Alice
Darling
Pet
Ace
Union Bridge notes and local events update
Union Bridge resident Kenneth Harsh er on furlough from Camp Meade visits town. Mrs John Marshall of Linwood sent to Maryland University Hospital for observation and treatment after weeks of confinement. Miss Helen Gladhil completes Hagerstown Business College course and visits Cumberland. Mr and Mrs John D Roop and family and Mrs S W Preutz of Linwood visit Rev and Mrs Elmer Schildt in Rocky Ridge. Samuel Dick moves to his son in law and daughter's home on Benedum street. Dr J H Messier lectures on communicable diseases at Red Cross Home Nursing meeting. about fifty ladies attend. Turks obtain planes from Allied bases. Turkish pilots fly British Blenheim bombers and American Tomahawks over Ankara, strengthening the Turkish air force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Bridge
Kenneth Harsher
Camp Meade
John Marshall
Linwood
Maryland University Hospital
Baltimore
Hartzler
Marshall
Helen Gladhi
Hagerstown Business College
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Benedum Street
Oscar Strawsburg
J. H. Messier
Red Cross Home Nursing
New York
Maybert Brower
Melen Cashman
Elizabeth Ohler
Trinity Lutheran Sunday School
Taneytown High School
Cella
Mike Brown
Richard Gingras
Java
Houston
Frank Stambaugh
Brenda Kay
Freda Stambaugh
Washington, D. C
Jacob Stambaugh
Stambaugh
Gladys Cressl
Frank Topper
Hanover
Eugene
Betty Stambaugh
Taneytown
Guy P. Bready
the Reformed Church
Taney Lodge
Blue Ridge Rubber Company
Richard C. Etzler
US Marine Corps
Etzler
Richard Etzler
Robert Etzler
Frances Cartvendamer
Harriet Cook
Jessie Wilhelm
Nettie Eyler
Cemia Wolf
Lucie Powell
Ruth Fisher
Helen Felier
Mary Dorsey
Ruth Shuff
Kathryn Hockensmith
Evelyn
Dorothy Dix Says Home Life Improves With Fewer Automobiles
Dorothy Dix argues the wartime shift away from cars toward staying at home will ease anxieties. She envisions a revised, peaceful domestic life, with renewed family bonds, better parent child relations, and fewer dangers from travel and nightlife as households rediscover home cooking, radio games, and shared evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilead
Junior
Mamie
Mom
Pop
Spider
Modes of Moment by Helen Burns in Town Life
A fragmented local notice discusses social dating norms, engagements, and home life with Arabella, referencing Easter services by Trinity Lutheran, a Taneytown party, and a Marine enlistment farewell. It lists local residents, family ties, and lodge events with brief social details.
Municipal Hall hosts Chamber get together on garbage plan
Taneytown officials meet to discuss garbage disposal with a committee to consult Homemakers' Club and present a collection system to the town council. An adjournment allows Civilian Defense events at the high school. Fire company oversight, bombing film from Reliance, and indoor activities draw a large crowd. Short talks by Mervyn Fuss and Mayor Shoemaker noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teneytown
Chamber of Commerce
Homemakers’Club
Fire Company
James C. Myers
England
Reliance Fire Company
West York
Mervyn C Fuss
Defense
Norville P. Shoemaker
Harry Shirk
Two Feminine Voices Dominate New Books
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings paints Florida’s Cross Creek life and landscape in a memoir rich with backwoods speech and time worn lore. Ilka Chase offers Past Imperfect a sharp witty autobiography on stage fashion travel and critics with a satirical rapier and a worldly view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ro Lo
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Florida
Cross Creek
Scribner
Ilka Chase
Doubleday Doran
Misa Chase
Miss Chase
Hollywood Notes On Lamour Donahue Romance And War Film Plans
Hollywood gossip notes Lamour and Donahue romance with a diamond engagement ring. Maj Capra to supervise new war newsreels and documentary shorts. About 1500 movie men in uniform. USC reports camps shows reach 230000 servicemen. Warner and Metro set projects. Grace Moore to star in Prima Donna for seven thousand five hundred dollars weekly. Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin story titled Lady Killer. Deanna Durbin’s Three Smart Girls Join Up. Bob mentions Pearl Harbor plotlines. Babe Ruth in The Pride for the Yankees cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Dorothy Lamour
Woolworth
Donahue
Leas
Butler
Frank Capra
Signal Corp
USC
Warners
Ronald Reagan
Metro
Clark Gable
Iweek
Grace Moore
Paramount
Orson Welles
Charlie Chaplin
Landru
Deanna Durbin
Botany Bay
Australia
Hollywood Notes From The Studio Lot And Wrigley Field
On location at Wrigley Field the Babe delivers a home run in a rehearsed scene directed by Sam Wood. Ona Munson named Hollywood's official hostess, famed for Gone With the Wind and The Shanghai Gesture. Hays Office curbs gown revealing, studios require censor approval. Novelty song Silk Stockings Are On Their Last Leg. Sam Goldwyn calls industry news spreading like wild flowers. U S auto ownership shows 71 percent of world total in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Wrigley Field
Sam Wood
Ruth
Ens
Ame
Ona Munson
Belle Wat- Iing
Gin Sling
Shanghai
Sam Goldwyn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Haney
Dorothy Dix
Helen
Arabella
Delphey
Lillie Houeit
Norma Fra Tey
Louise Unger
Belva Brice
Harriet Keefer
Eva Treesler
Mae Davis
Hazel Eyler
Viola Ecker
Florence Riley
Helen Moser
Virginia Stambaugh
Annie Stauffer
Grace Arbaugh
Helen Powell
Mary Henning
Fred Henning
Mildred Dayhoff
Dennis Wallicit
Paul Bankard
Harvey Baker
Richard Sell
James Lawrence
Bufelo
Demsberg
KEY Hotel Bldg
Paul Harrison
NEA
Babe Ruth
Sam Goldiwgh
Yankees
Dom
United States
Ates
Soane
Thomas
Blue and Grey Beauty Shop
Warner Bros. Theatres
Frederick
Kay
Harry Babbitt
Sully Mason
Los Landis
Don Winslow
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