Movie Stars Scatter as Summer Vacations Start
Major Bowes talks money on Sunday radio as his contract nears expiration in September with sponsors seeking renewal. Amateurs on the program earn five dollars per appearance, doublng for a gang. Stars head to London Paris and Austria for vacations, then back to Hollywood for new pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Bowes
Marlene Dietrich
London
Europe
Basil Rathbone
Charles Boyer
Paris
Joseph Schildkraut
Austria
Hollywood
Ben Lyons
Bebe Daniels
England
Barbara
Ben
Bebe
Riviera
Fred Alten
Massachusetts
Dress Suit Dream in a Village Tale of Sherman Whipple
Sherman Whipple_labors toward a lifelong wish for an extravagant dress suit after inspiration from a vaudeville era wood cut. He endures social mockery and fashion rules, learns the limits of style, and remains bonded to the idea that true status comes with effort, not merely clothing. The tale ends with a moral about innate dignity versus outward attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Sweeney
Whipple
Haute Monde
Twelfth Ward
Sherman Whipple
Metropolitan Opera House
Buffalo Return Ride Endures Eight Inch Tail Tale
Buck Pyle recalls two ranch hands Sam and Henry chasing buffaloes in Texas. Sam’s wounded buffalo charged. he clung to the tail for balance until a poplar twig tickled its nose and redirected the beast toward the Mexican boundary until Henry arrived to help. Sam never accepts buffalo nickels now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Pyle
Clarendon
Texas
Sam
Henry
Donley County
Pyle
The Rivals on Screen and Other Film News
The Rivals Sheridan play heads to film soon as Shirley Temple is imagined in The Bowery Princess. Rudy Vallee receives an honorary law degree from Suffolk. Richard Barthelmess stars in The Spy of Napoleon. George Raft heads East for Schmeling fight. Harry Warner of Warner Bros named Chevalier of Honor for The Story of Louis Pasteur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Shirley Temple
Bowery
Rudy Vallee
Suffolk Law School
Richard Barthelmess
Napoleon
George Raft
Louis Schmeling
Harry Warner
Warner Brothers
Louis Pasteur
Western Newspaper
Union
Pigeon Hero Petey Returns After Chicago Rescue
Glenn Butcher of Lockport Illinois kept carrier pigeons, chief Petey. A thief abducted Petey to Chicago and threw him from a high building. Petey broke a leg but guided himself back home over 45 miles in seven days with a swagger stick as crutch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acaemes
Glenn Butcher
Sixth Infantry
France
Lockport
Petey
Butcher
Chicago
Butcher’s Yard
Charming Summer Pattern Dress for Easy Sewing
A report on a Barbara Bell pattern from The Sewing Circle. The pattern offers a raglan sleeveless dress with a flattering youthful neckline in sizes 14 to 42 and fabric options like tub silk linen and crepe. Instructions note yardage for sizes and a belt pattern, with a 15 cent pattern order to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Syllable Pairing Puzzle Answers
Two columns of syllables yield ten complete words by pairing one from the first with one from the second column. Complete answers include sergeant action culprit local conduct expert pilot produce presume bargain.
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Rene Col
Ser
Lot
Cal
Tion
Duce
Prit
Pre
Geant
Royal Palm Drops Golf Balls at De Leon Springs
John H. Fisher of Chicago lost his balls on his first Fl orida visit to De Leon Springs Golf Course where a royal palm in front of the ninth green snagged balls. A 59 cent dollar convinced a caddie to climb the tree and shake loose 376 balls, revealing 13 bore Fisher’s initials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
France
de Leon Springs
John H. Fisher
Chicago
de Leon Springs Links
Fisher
Union
London Has Forest Near City Center
London’s ancient forest of Epping Forest lies within seven miles of central London, stretching over twenty miles and belonging to the city. Its ancient oaks beeches and hornbeams testify to a thousand years of growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Epping Forest
Essex
Notable foreign phrases and their meanings list
A collection of Latin French and Greek phrases with English glosses including Ab urbe condita Aere perennius Bon jour Coup de grace De jure En avant Femme de chambre Gnothi seauton Laissez-faire Quoad hoc Iterum Petitin principii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Femme de
Gnothi Seauton
Iterum
Joe E Brown Urges Youth Club Through Grape-Nuts Flakes
Joe E Brown invites boys and girls to join a club by sending a top from a red and blue box of Grape-Nuts Flakes. Members receive a membership pin and Club Manual, with a path to prizes and ranks up to Captain. Offer expires December 31, 1936, in the U.S. A. Produced by Post Cereal General Foods. Advertising note includes Earthworm Tractor film tease.
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U.S. A
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Metro
Jack Dawn
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Katharine Hepburn
Theater Guild
Margaret Sullavan
New York
Robert Taylor
Antdl
Taylor
George Ade
WIU Service
MR. Whipple
Ice
Wimpusville
Alys
Alys Montague
Geoffrey Durante
Geoffrey
Gladys Marston
John Drew
Tall Tales
Frank E. Hagan and
Elmo Scott Watson
By Lowell Henderson
Olumn
Washington Irving
Dempster Iistory
Dempster
Dempster Mill Mfg. CO
Seatrice, Rebr
NTA
Ted
E. Brown Club
Joe
Joe E. Brown
CLUB
Cape
General Foods
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