First Nights revived as critics toast Saroyan era theater
Notes claim William Saroyan's Time of Your Life revival split critics and Pulitzer prizes, with mixed takes on its revival era. The column jams theater gossip, film previews, and radio chatter about performers and public reception, naming Cantor Borg and others.
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Wm. Sacoyan
Iter
Pulitzer
Fea Jeert
Azer
Idinson
Yohn Anderson
Mason Brown
Sarayan
Mantle
Saroyan
Kronenberger
Eddie Cantor
Jolson
Wynn
Husger
Campaigns, Draft Plans Amid Global Tensions
In Washington the draft deferment for farm estates is studied with a six month pause, October 16 registration is nearly ready, and penalties for skipping registration are severe. Willkie campaigns in the East while Roosevelt tours defense sites. La Follette backs a third term. Hitler and Mussolini confer as Britain holds out, with potential Balkan moves and Suez strategy looming.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Great Britain
Washington
Joseph F. Battley
Joint Army Navy Draft Committee
Batley
Notable Deaths and Historical Notes Across 1930s Era
Names like Loss Cel Harrington a 53 year WPA administrator dies in New London Conn. Army loaned Col Harrington to WPA amid criticism. Brig Gen Francis W Boneycutt killed when a plane wreck occurs in southeast Georgia. Spain figure Joldan Besterio aged seven, last president of the Spanish republic, dies in Seville prison. Marguerite Clark, silent film star who early in cinema shared top honors with Mary Pickford, dies in New York at 54.
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New London
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WPA
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Ebrig
Francis W. Boneycutt
Georgia
Spain
Joldan Besterio
Laat
Spanish Republic
Franco
Seville
Marguerite Clark
Motion
Mary Pickford
New York
Pierson Arrives In Buenos Aires On Sumptuous South American Tour
Warren Lee Pierson, manager of the U S Export-Import Bank, arrives in Buenos Aires on a South American tour to consolidate Pan American relations for anticipated economic trade between western hemisphere powers and the German-stationed Japanese axis.
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Warren Lee Pierson
U.S
Duewox Aires
Wiest
New Axis Pact Signals War aims and broad alliance
In a high profile ceremony witnessed by hundreds of newspaper men, Hitler and Mussolini formalized a new alliance with Japan promising a world order with Europe under German Italian influence and Asia under Japan. The pact pledges joint action against external powers and hints at Latin American subversion, while Washington and Moscow react with caution amid signs of embargo and diplomacy. The note references a looming global realignment ahead of broader conflicts.
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England
Berlin
Channel
Hitler
Balkans
Germany
Greece
Turkey
Mussolini
Suez
Egypt
U.S
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
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United States
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Russia
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Yori Ribbentrop
Moscow
America
Britain
Inflation and war prices threaten the nation
Washington level analysis warns that wartime inflation severely burdened citizens especially fixed-income groups and soldiers' families. Calls for a single price ceiling system to curb spiraling costs and notes past failures to prevent inflation even as Brookings and Henderson offer proposals. Editorial stance critiques bluff in defense buildup and warns against premature aggression.
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Washington, D. G
Leon Henderson
Brooking
Naepoleon
War Industries Board
Garden book note on tall flowering broming exhibit
A reader describes a Seattle garden showing a tall broming plant with 21 Clossomy ell on one etalk, four feng tall, flowers clustered at the top and jostling each other. The display drew some attention from observers.
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Ogee Timmer
Seattle
War department figures appear in wartime aviation report
The text records a World War era tally from Col. Leais noting entries for the Ealing States with 56 planes and 25 pilots and later 22,000 planes and 35,908 pilots. It mentions Gore WHh drawing over $17 million at the box office and notes 433 Technicolor prints of a picture reaching totals including Alma.
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Leais
War Department
Ealing States
G.W. TW
Gore
Alma
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