Learning to Make People Laugh Is Serious Business
Chicago article on Rosalie Wegner and her daughter Lenore running a clown school in their basement. Classes twice weekly with students in costumes practicing acts and pantomime while learning discipline, timing, and stage craft. The Wegners provide coaching, props, and job placements for carnivals parades and parties.
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Chicago
Rosalie’s School For
Rose Wegner
Lenore
Wegners
Rosalie
Rosalie, Jr
Chicago Art Institute
Willie
Rosalie, Sr
Alice
Dentist Inventor Wins Big Patent Royalties
Dexter, Missouri dentist and inventor Dr. Elmer G. Kesling, 66, received a $310,486 royalty check plus $34,407 in interest from General Motors after a five year legal battle. His vacuum booster gear shift device, patented in 1936 and used on Chevrolets since 1938, earns him 12 cents per new car. Kesling plans no retirement, may take a vacation, and remains busy with patients.
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Dexter
Elmer G. Kesling
St. Louis
General Motors Corporation
Kesling
Garage Owner Permits Plane Pilots to Do Own Repairs
Compton California report on George Adams who runs a self service airplane garage at the city airport. He charges a small parking and tool rent fee while plane owners perform their own repairs. Adams, a CAA aircraft inspector, says tinkering is unsafe yet profits from the setup.
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Compton
Calif
George Adams
Adams
CAA
Witet
Ns Saneraisie
One Yard Blouses Easy Sewing Pattern No 1763
A Spring and Summer fashion booklet offers No 1763 sewing pattern for blouses in sizes 12 through 20. Size 14 requires 1 yard of 39 inch fabric per blouse with a free pattern and knit directions printed inside the book. Price 25 cents.
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Gee
Nancy
By Ernie Bushmiller
Phooey
Little Reggie
Margarita
Reggie
Matt and
Jeff
Bud Fisher
By Arthur Pointer
Gene Byrnes
Nasty
Bygones
Pratikally
Jeroop Brothers
Sunnyside
By ClArk $. Haas
Virgil
BY Len Kleis
Sweletan
Clown School
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells
Chicago 7
Ill
PVCU
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
Louisvi 2
Kentucky
Thornton & Minor
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