DeMille’s New Technicolor Spectacle Attracts Big Names
Industry gossip notes that OEM STNGESSORE and Hedy Lamarr lead DeMille’s next lavish biblical epic, with Victor Mature and others. An advance unit heads to Algiers for background shots, and a 2,000 mile caravan trek will film in remote deserts. Ed Begley joins NBC’s The Big Story on August 18 while Columbia signs Ellen Corby for The Dark Past. Other items cover Gene Autry’s Champion horseshoes, Anna Lee’s Fort Apache return, and postwar Australia GI settlement talk.
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Inez Geehard
Camson
Delilah
Hedy Lamarr
Victor Mature
Ed Begley
NBC
Notable Casting and Creature Roles Highlight 1920s Screen News
Teresa the 200 pound mechanical turtle gains a prominent spot in Tarzan and the Arrow of Death while Leatrice Joy returns in Red Stallion in the Rockies after seeing her in Yes My Darling Daughter. Sarah Selby announces a 7 34 pound damium named Holiday following her role in Junior Miss.
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Teresa
Leatrice Joy
Eagle-Lion
Rockies
Aubrey Schenck
Hft
Daughter
Sarah Selby
Mrs. Graves
Holiday
Train Crew Fined $17.50 for Blocked Traffic in Dallas Area
A passenger train was held 15 minutes as a justice of the peace fined the crew 1750 for blocking traffic. Constable R S Cox boarded the Fort Worth and Denver train at Irving and said he ordered the engineer to halt while he sought the judge. About 100 cars were reportedly blocked on North Brittain street. Justice C M Cantrell held court on the road after crew protests.
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Dallas
Tex
Justice of the Peace
Irving
Fort Worth
R. S. Cox
Denver
Cox
North Brittain Street
C. M. Cantrell
Bugs Puzzle Plane Designers Insect Drag On Wings
The article reports on aerial insect damage to low-drag wings. British tests with a pursuit plane show dead bugs sticking to wings and increasing drag from 50 to 100 percent. Experiments note flies disintegrate on impact and glue remains impair surface smoothness.
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Baltimore
Four Men Beat Paralytic Veteran After Horn Incident
Baltimore. A 30-year-old disabled veteran says four men tried to drag him from his motor car and beat him after he blew his horn. Two others, Frank Franklin and Joseph Boslusny, received $150 fines. The court still sought two assailants.
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Baltimore
Frank Franklin
Joseph Boslusny
Herbert Franklin
John Chilcote
Italy
Chilcote
Health Inspector Orders Lawyer to Clean Up Flat
San Francisco health inspectors found a lawyer’s flat jammed with glass and china, garbage, tires, cans, crates, radio horns, shredded newspapers, dirty dishes, moldy food, matches, bottles, rags and animals. John Ketterer gave McComber five days to tidy up, noting his vast but stored library of law books.
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San Francisco
Lloyd McComber
Health Department
McComber
John Ketterer
The
Board of Health
Bachelor’s Coins Will Pay for One More Free School
New Orleans prepares to use the remaining funds from John McDonogh’s century old bequest to build one final McDonogh school in Gentilly Lake, as the trust dwindles after financing 28 New Orleans and two Jefferson Parish schools. McDonogh’s estate funded free schools across the cities, with 19 still bearing his name, including McDonogh No. 1, the oldest. A statue of McDonogh watches over Lafayette Square as locals recall a man once famed as a tight financier with a nickel.
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New Orleans
Baltimore
Gentilly Lake Area
Commission Council
McDonagh
Supreme Court
McDonogh
Francis P. Burns
Burns
Jefferson Parish
Orleans
Salaries of Athletes Show Disparities Across Sports
The article compares pay in boxing baseball and football, noting fighters earn huge sums for big events while most boxers receive little. It highlights stars like Joe Louis Babe Ruth Ted Williams Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller with earnings cited and discusses longevity and value in baseball versus football.
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Joe Louis
Louis
Babe Ruth
Mel Heins
Sammy Baughs
Sid Luckmans
Bob Feller
Rapid Robert
Ted Williams
Joe DiMaggio
Stan Musial
Cardinal Briliant
Musial
Heat Treatments Expedite Growth of Sockeye Salmon
Seattle facility speeds sockeye growth using heated tanks and special diets under Dr. Lauren Donaldson. About 40 000 fish hatched from Baron lake eggs in British Columbia were kept at 50 degrees and fed protein rich diets to gain two years of growth in one year. They are shipped to Fraser River area for release with fin markings for tracking.
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Seattle
University of Washington
Fraser River
Canada
Lauren Donaldson
University
Applied Fisheries Laboratory
Baron Lake
British Columbia
Horsefly-Quesnel
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Okahoma
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Anne Burr
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Fort Apache
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Art Linkletter
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Pasadena
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Kentucky
James Roosevelt
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Gene Tunney
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Ltand
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Bobby Layne
Walter Hagen
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