Iowa Girl Joy Hodges Signs to Oppose George M. Cohan
Iowa soprano Joy Hodges born Frances Hodges rises from East Des Moines High School to win the state contest in 1930 and to join the stage world. She began public piano recitals at age six, toured Chautauqua and radio with notable orchestras, and is now engaged to Rochester actor Robert Wilcox whom she met in Hollywood.
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George M. Cohan
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Carol Lerner
Jimmie Grier
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Robert Wilcox
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Hollywood
University of Southern California
Des Moines
Busy Bee and Busy Peter Seek Honest Work
Peter Rabbit questions Busy Bee about her constant labor and workload in the clover patch. Busy Bee brushes him off with hasty replies as she moves from flower to flower, humming and continuing her task.
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Busy Bee Chooses Flowers Over Peter
Peter the child narrator encounters Busy Bee who repeats buzz sounds and dances among flowers. After trying to count visits he grows tired, then resumes eating clover blossoms but yields to Busy Bee’s insistence, deciding to let the bee have what it wants. T. W. Burgess.
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Peter
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T. W. Burgess
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Rugs Draperies For Sunlit Room
A reader named M F requests color guidance for a sunlit living room. The designer suggests olive green breadloom rug complements warm tan wallpaper and proposes plain drapery fabric in a matching warm tan tone. questions about wall and rug color balance and porch window treatments are discussed.
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Betty Wells
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Ask Me and Answers: Quick Facts Quiz Items
A set of trivia questions on global armament spending 1937 women pilots licenses US Empire State Building staff Vatican coinage and striking, US farm figures, Mousetrap quotation, Bull Moose name origin, sun east west at Panama Isthmus, and Lafayette Square’s first post White House house.
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Lafayette Square
White House
Armaments Expenditures and Notable Historical Facts
A compilation of varied historical notes cites 1937 world armaments spending at 11.857 billion dollars, with other items listing coinage timing, notable quotes, party nicknames, ocean geography, and the Decatur house from 1818 built by Commodore Stephen Decatur from Barbary Wars prize money.
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Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Decatur
Commodore Stephen Decatur
Armaments Yearbook Highlights From League of Nations
The Armaments Yearbook of the League of Nations presents a survey of military capacity and armament trends across member states. It outlines production, stockpiles, and policy shifts impacting global security and disarmament efforts.
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League of Nations
Cardinal Truths in Shakespeare and Biblical Themes
Carl Ackermann argues in The Bible in Shakespeare that Shakespeare reveals inner soul truths akin to biblical ones. He notes Shakespeare portrays immoral characters without endorsing vice and cites Macbeth as an example of ambition wrecking the soul.
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Coleridge
Macbeth
Carl Ackermann
End of Act Twist in a Playwright Scene
A playwright narration describes a hero captured by bandits unable to find a rope as the orchestra crescendos with The Lost Chord. A floorwalker dismisses a burglar with a joke about silverware, and a woman quips about dodging entertainment tax.
Indoor Seed Starting For Gardeners
Gardeners should start crops like tomatoes and peppers indoors from seed using reliable varieties. Sow eight weeks before transplant in one quarter inch deep soil, keep 70 to 75 degrees, water moderately, ensure bright light and air circulation to prevent damping off, then transplant when 1.5 inches tall.
Mistaken Cartoon Descriptions in Oxymoronic Ice Scene
A list critiques misdrawn captions for a Mistake-O-Graph image set. Items describe fragile tree ties, frozen fish pulled from ice, a gent skating on water, bent blade on one skate, half a skate on the other foot, roller skates on ice, a foaming milk jug, a legless bench, gun lights on its underside, bent gun barrel, two skate types on a girl jumping a barrel, a man without hands, asymmetrical glasses, outdoor bathing in cold, and a misspelled word sents with copyright notice.
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Jake
WNU
Favorite Recipe of the Week Canned Peach Halves Bake
Canned peach halves baked in their syrup with sugar butter and a hint of cinnamon make a delicious dessert to serve hot or warm. Bake in a 450 degree oven about 30 minutes until edges brown. broil briefly for darker edges. Canned pear halves are prepared the same way.
Paine the Miser and the Chickering Bond Package
Paine a composer and critic, friend of Frank Chickering, was long rumored poor. A bandana wrapped package entrusted to Chickering held manuscripts, later opened after seventeen years revealing bonds and currency worth over 400000 dollars.
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Frank Chickering
Paine
Chickering
Pepsodent and Irium Promises Safe Tooth Brightening
An advertisement touts Pepsodent with Irium as the unique dentifrice containing Irium to safely brighten teeth. It claims stains are gently brushed away without bleach grit or pumice and suggests readers try the product to see its effects.
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