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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
5
The simple commercial language of the East Indies, Malay, has spread widely with 40 nationalities adopting it as the common tongue, substituting their mother tongues in many daily and business exchanges.
A fifty five year old clock in Saugus Mass owned by Mr and Mrs Joseph McDonald reportedly never runs down and always keeps good time according to the couple.
Star Dust NOREA LEEDS clashes with press agents over glamour rules in The Last Frontier with Gary Cooper. A broken right foot in a badminton accident traps her in a plaster cast for three weeks yet she tours night life to keep glamour image. Opera cycle idea follows as San Francisco Grand Opera sells out driving film studios to imitate operas. Disney's Farmyard Symphony slated with burlesques of arias amid others.
The report notes Tom Brown wore a neck brace for eight hours after an injury and feared his neck would never move naturally again. It compares the brace scene to Eric von Stroheim wearing a similar device in Grand Illusion, praised as a top foreign film of the year.
William Powell signs a new contract with Metro and heads back to work in January. His first film will be The Return of the Thin Man with Myrna Loy. The Thin Man series may rival the Charlie Chan films in length.
The piece credits Rudy Vallee with pioneering modern radio guest programs and developing many stars from Alice Faye to Charlie McCarthy. It notes his tenth anniversary program and his long influence despite modest salaries for early radio talent.
Listeners who helped shape his early success with the Betty Lou character now write to urge Riggs to sing more as himself on his program, praising his refined vocal talent and encouraging fuller use of his natural baritone.
Ex mayor of New York Jimmy Walker begins weekly hospital broadcasts drawing many friends from the entertainment world who offer to work for free. He provides his own services and the programs are praised. Viewers are urged to see "The Citadel" and "The Young in Heart" with studios busy producing Westerns including James Cagney's "Oklahoma Kid."
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