Gay Desperado shines as Mary Pickford Lasky return
The Gay Desperado starring Nino Martini and Ida Lupino earns praise for its songs and cast. Leo Carrillo Mischa Auer and James Blakeley deliver strong turns while the glossy New York reception signals rising star power. A nightclub scout encounter with Samuel Goldwyn highlights talent spotting in Hollywood. Joyce Duskin briefly enters the scene chasing singing dreams.
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Mary Pickford
Jesse L. Lasky
Nino Martini
Leo Carrillo
Mischa Auer
Ida Lupino
James Blakeley
Hollywood
New York
Bing Crosby
the Paradise
Samuel Goldwyn
Joyce Duskin
Claudette Colbert Plans Return After Auto Crash
Claudette Colbert remains convalescing from a car accident. Once she is well, she will resume the cast of The Pair of Salem and then plan her next picture Woman Interne.
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Claudette Colbert
Salem
Garbo Defies Guild Rule Unscathed by Equity Suspension
Greta Garbo stands out among her peers as the sole film star resisting compulsory Screen Actors Guild enrollment without a suspension from Actors Equity. Lionel Barrymore is listed among twenty four top actors barred by Equity from stage work.
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Greta Garbo
Screen Actors’ Guild
Equity
Lionel Barrymore
History repeats itself in epic political tragedies and show business gossip
The column blends entertainment notes about Paulette Goddard with Chaplin and studio deals and ends with a Western Newspaper Union analysis of Henry Clay and James G. Blaine as doomed political figures. It notes Stanwyck Taly rumors and gestures from Carole Lombard to Clark Gabie.
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Franchot Tone
James Stewart
Metro
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
Greta Garbo
Joel McCrea
Bill Hart
Tom Mix
Julia Sanderson
Frank Crummit
Clark Gabie
Carole Lombard
Western Newspaper Union
Henry Clay
James G. Blaine
Andrew Jackson
Clay
Roscoe Conkling
Blaine
Grover Cleveland
Republican Party
Polk
Baltimore
Cleveland
Kentucky
Maine
Union
Emblems on Ballots Through History and Symbol Meanings
The article analyzes party emblems on ballots, linking each symbol to historical figures and parties such as Fremont and the Republicans, Chapman and Democrats, and icons for Prohibition Socialists Labor and Communists. It notes origins in aiding illiterate voters and immigrants to avoid voting mistakes amid evolving party symbols.
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John C. Fremont
Joseph Chapman
Indiana
Labor Party
Russia
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive
Soochow Nail Growers Make Living From Nail Powder
In Soochow China scores of workers grow eight inch fingernails to supply a patent medicine maker. Nails are ground to powder forming the sore throat remedy base. Workers earn just enough to stay idle as nails must be flawless with no cracks. The medicine is a tiny black pill no larger than a pinhead once devised by a local physician.
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Soochow
China
Ma Barker and son slain in Florida FBI siege
Federal agents stormed a Lake Weir mansion housing the Karpis Barker gang. Kate Barker, known as Ma, and her son Fred died amid gunfire after she opened fire with a Thompson. Agents found multiple rifles, pistols, body armor, and a torn letter guiding the raid to a Florida lake house.
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Karpis - Barker
Lake Weir
Florida
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kate Barker
Barker
Fred
Karpis-Barker
Oklawaha
Fla
Kate
Fred Barker
Gmen
Barkers
Bremer
Arthur
Doc
Chicago
Pine Grove Avenue
Pine Grove Avenue Place
Mr. Bolton
Byron Bolton
Russell Gibson
Slim’’ Gray
Gibson
Joe
Blackburn
Ma”’ Barker
O. K
Ma’’ Barker
Ma” Barker
Alvin Karpis
Harry Campbell
Atlantic City
J. Edgar Hoover
New Orleans
Toledo
WNN Service
Milady’s Vote HREE Post-Election Wardrobe Patterns
Three sewing patterns offer ready outfits with illustrated steps for quick fit. Pattern 1821 a princess line morning frock in sizes 36 to 52 uses 4 3 4 yards of 39 inch material at size 38. Pattern 1958 blouse and skirt uses eight pieces in sizes 14 to 46 with yardage for blouse and skirt. Pattern 1843 fitted slip with strap or built up shoulder in sizes 32 to 44 needing 3 1 4 yards at size 36. Send 15 cents for Fall Pattern Book from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
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Milady
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Children of the mind and the sanctuary of intuitions
A reflective passage contrasts the dangers of lies with the need to cleanse the heart. It emphasizes that even small falsehoods are "ugly soot" from the pit and urges vigilance in keeping minds free of deceit while honoring the manifold riches of human faculties and intuitions.
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Swinton
Heroes of Civilization Reflections by Pollock
An excerpt reflects on Shaw’s remark that courage to rage and kill is cheap and contrasts it with Carnegie’s heroes of civilization. Pollock notes the difference between going over the top with fanfare and risking danger alone for duty without glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bernard Shaw
Bulldog
Carnegie
Channing Pollock
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Reminiscence on Virtue Vice and Human Nature
A collection of aphoristic observations on culture self restraint and morality. The prose contrasts meditation common sense and social behavior with remarks on virtue vice backbone self respect and the ethics of science and war.
Foreign Phrases and Their Meanings in Context
A compact list of Latin and French phrases with definitions noting self esteem love letter step by step something crime in the act street slang child much in little and related phrases. Each item pairs the foreign term with an English gloss and brief usage hint.
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Spiro
Spero
South Carolina
Bicameral Legislatures Across States Historically
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes all states use two legislative chambers with a senate and a lower house. It highlights that Pennsylvania Georgia and Vermont initially built unicameral systems and that some states call the lower chamber the assembly or house of delegates.
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Pennsylvania
Georgia
Vermont
Senate
House of Representatives
Assembly
House of Delegates
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Paulette Goddard
Charlie Chaplin
Regency
Man
Frank E. Hagen
Elmo Scott Watson
Rex Collier
North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc
Ruskin
Sda
Paul G. Dicks
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