Screen and stage notes from wartime cinema era and Broadway chatter
A dense clip of entertainment notes lists projects and personalities. It covers new stage scene in a Broadway ledge scene with Jean Phillips, Macdonald Carey and Sioux City ties, previews of RKO bomb sight film Bard, and ongoing film activity featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Krupa, Betty Button, Bob Hope, Red Vallee, and Edna Berber among others. It mentions Shaves for the Hays drive, Constance Bennett leading the movie stars committee, and other industry gossip about Paramount, Columbia, Metro, and American film culture of the period.
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Broadway
Jean Phillips
Macdonald Carey
Miss Phillips
Mr. Carey
Thern
Sioux City
Iowa
Santa Shovel Work In Snowbound City Street
In a humorous look at the mechanized age Santa Claus struggles as heavy snow defeats a modern carriage. He wields four snow shovels before a New York store to clear a path to Tree Street, with an editor’s aside pondering his tasks at a further point.
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Santa
Santa Claus
Tree St
Christmas Marked In Early Colonies By Jollity and Feasting
Early Atlantic colonies varied in Christmas observance. Southern colonies kept feasting and worship, New England opposed pagan rites but later embraced English Yuletide, middle colonies mixed origins from England Germany Holland and Sweden with German trees and Philadelphia Quaker religious limits. Families held reunions, guests feasted on fowls wines and confections, frontier towns saw lively merriment, and over time customs merged into a common American Christmas practice.
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Atlantic Seaboard
England
Georgia
Corona
Maryland
Virginia
New England
Old England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Germany
Helland
Sweden
America
Philadelphia
Middle
Soutthern
United States
Saint Nicholas and the origins of Santa Claus
The passage explains Saint Nicholas as a historical bishop of Myra in Lycia, noting his piety and grace from birth and his wealth as a merchant's son. It traces the feast day from December 6 to its later association with Christmas and the shift in festive practices during the late medieval period.
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Santa Claus
Saint Nicholas
Nicholas
Myra
Lycia
Asia Minor
Christmas Milestones From Early Church Dates
The note traces Christmas observance from early claims of A D 93 to Me of Christ details. It cites Pope Telesphorus approving a solemn feast in A D 137 and St Cyril’s 23 December as the likely birth date, with Pope Julius later endorsing Rome’s festival on that date.
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Telesphorus
Christ
St. Cyril
Julius
Rome
Christendom
Rabbits and Budget Rabbits in Australia War Economy
The article notes rabbits becoming a key factor in Australia's national war economy. It mentions the United States taking 25 thousand Australian rabbits for hat production and references a growing dollar exchange, along with an estimate of about 153,000 practicing physicians in the United States.
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Australia
United States
Triangular and square divisions described with strength figures
A triangular division includes three infantry regiments two artillery regiments one engineer medical and quartermaster battalions and a signal company totaling about 12 200 men. The square division comprises two regiments and two brigades of three regiments of artillery with one regiment each of signals quartermaster and medical and smaller ordnance units totaling about 18 500 men.
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Signal Corps
Ikem
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