Talkies Birthday Toast and Hollywood Casting News
The piece marks ten years of synchronized sound in cinema with Warner Brothers pioneers and Vitaphone. It notes potential films for Bette Davis in Danton Terror of France, director Max Reinhardt, and Charles Laughton. Kate Smith shifts radio to Hollywood, while Bing Crosby runs a family corporation for his income streams.
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Warner Brothers
John Barryrgore
Will Hays
Bettie Davis
Danton
France
Max Reinhardt
Bette
Charles Laughton
Kate Smith
Hollywood
Kate
Shirley Temple
Twentieth Century-Fox
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby, Ltd., Inc
Bing
Fable in slang ends in a quarrel over speech
A tale of Alonzo Frothingham and wife Mehitabel clashing over his use of slang and high minded talk. She mocks his pretensions while he pleads for gentler language and vows to simplify to one syllable words. Moral: no house big enough for two high brows.
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NCE
Alonzo Frothingham
Dominie
Mchitabel
The
State University
Sir Walter Scott
Elihu Root
Calvin Coolidge
Pope
Eliot
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Mehitabel
Alonzo
Chuck Connors
Lindley Murray
Mehitabe
George M. Cohan
George the Fifth
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Joseph Addison
Walter Pater
Birch
The Origin of Ruckerize at 1835 Democratic Convention
A historical note explains how Andrew Jackson and his lieutenants “ruckerized” the Baltimore Democratic Convention of 1835 by packing the Tennessee delegation with Edward Rucker’s 15 votes, enabling a smooth single ballot Van Buren nomination and shaping party tactics.
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Andrew Jackson
Martin van Buren
New York
van Buren
Jackson
Baltimore
Alabama
Illinois
South Carolina
Tennessee
Edward Rucker
Indians in Yellowstone Used Geysers for Cooking
Native groups in Yellowstone Park reportedly used geyser heat to cook food. The account notes practical cooking methods drawn from geothermal steam and hot springs seen in the park.
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Yellowstone Park
Douglas and Lincoln in 1860 Aimed for Union
The piece recalls Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln's 1858 debates that shaped national politics. Douglas, once wary of Lincoln, urged the South to back Lincoln to save the Union, then stood beside Lincoln at the inauguration, symbolizing compromise amid party splits.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Illinois
Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Deep South
Hannibal Hamlin
H. W. Johnson
John C. Breckenridge
Joseph Lane
John Bell
Tennessee
Edward Everett
Massachusetts
New Constitutional Union Party
South
Union
Capitol
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1828 B for little princess frock
The pattern offers a percale challis or wool frock with princess lines ideal for girls 4 6 8 and 10 years. Size 8 needs 2 yards of 35 inch fabric plus TM% yard contrast and 15 cents to order. Also promote Fall Pattern Book with 109 patterns and The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Nel
WNN Service
Prague man earns living as living tailor's dummy
Rudolph Nedvidek of Prague holds the world’s strangest job by standing still for hours. He can stay motionless for three hours in a shop window or while a cart is drawn through streets. He has practiced long to reach this skill and serves as a living mannequin.
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Rudolph Nedvidek
Prague
Rudolph
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