Love and danger under the circus big top
Harriet Beatty, wife of lion tamer Clyde Beatty, becomes a lion tamer herself and performs daily in the same cage with a lion, tiger, and elephant. Clyde, famed for training dozens of big cats, endures near-fatal incidents while starring in major circus acts and Hollywood films.
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King of Beasts
Cy Sen
Clyde Beatty
Rochester
Ind
Clyde
Harriet
Chillicothe
Ohio
Cole Brothers’ Circus
Mrs. Beatty
Chicago
Harriet Evans
Beatty
Samson
Allen King
King
Sammy
Muskegon
Michigan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Harriet Beatty
Star Dust Movie Radio Stardust and Harriet Hilliard
A portrait of Harriet Hilliard of Follow the Fleet fame on radio with Ozzie Nelson’s band. The piece notes her beauty, talent, and shift from dancer to actress, plus comments on Hollywood beauty culture, Will Hays Memorial plans, Ruby Keeler’s golf ambitions, and a BBC radio quirk with water usage during big broadcasts. Includes mentions of Will Rogers Memorial, Paul Whiteman, Morton Downey, Bing Crosby, and London audience habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veryone
Harriet Hilliard
Ozzie Nelson
Ginger Rogers
Randolph Scott
Mamma
Harriet
Broadway
Studios race to film outdoors big pictures rise
ODDS AND ENDS note Toby Wing finally in a picture while The Trail of the Lonesome Pine inspires a rush to outdoor productions. Ronald Howard acts as Romeo and Juliet extra as Shirley Temple learns bicycling. Little Lord Fauntleroy charms despite Freddie Bartholomew curls. Paramount eyes four color pictures. Fox to film Ramona in color. black and white returns to shelves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toby Wing
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Leslie Howard
Ronald
Shirley Temple
Lord Fauntleroy
Freddie Bartholomew
Paramount
Twentieth Century- Fox
Union
Dainty Collars and Jabots to Crochet
Fresh spring accessory notes present airy lacy collars and jabots. An open front square mesh collar and a back-closing triangular collar in petite boucle, plus a mesh jabot with a nosegay of Irish roses in cotton. Pattern 1136 includes directions, illustrations, stitches, and material needs. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Oldest Temple Fort Found by Explorers in the Orient
Archaeologists at Tepe Gawra northern Mesopotamia reveal a prehistoric circular sun-brick "round house" citadel and temple complex antedating biblical references by nearly three centuries. The discovery ends the seventh season at the Great Mound 15 miles northeast of Mosul by a joint University of Pennsylvania and American Schools of Oriental Research expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tepe Gawra
Mesopotamia
University of Pennsylvania
Mosul
University Museum
American Schools of Oriental Research
Childhood memories and a tram seat gesture
Jackson recalls offering his seat on the tram to a woman, describing a lifelong respect learned from childhood for a woman with a strap in her hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Indy
Affluence Leads to Farm Riches and Irony
A visitor notes a sudden wealth as a family buys a farm with hens cows and pigs. When asked if the hens lay eggs the reply is they can but for their position they do not have to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Hepburn
Doris Dudley
RKO
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Flarriet
Mr. Beatty
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Tames Dame Fortune
Leo
Beattys
Menelik
Lion Cub
Daffy
Circus
Africa
Rassling
United States
Western Newspaper Union
STAR DUST Movie + Radio
Will Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
What
Will Rogers
Saranac Lake
Ruby Keeler
Paul Whiteman
NBC
Paul Morton Downey
Bing Crosby
Jane Froman
Ferde Grofe
George Gershwin
Mary Margaret McBride
Morton Downey
England
Ireland
London
Katherine
Orient
Wrigley's
Wrigley
la Lincoln
Hotel Connbu Res
Igniee
Tee
A. L.lew
Coe
A.Q. Schimmel
Onda Hotel
Blackstone
Suhutes Queness District
Agai
Dizzy
Dad
Dizzy Dean
Battle Creek
Mich
U.S.A
General Foods
Pia
Dizzy Eee
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Izzy
W.N.U. S
Diz
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