STAR DUST Broadcasts Highlight Christmas Radio Traditions
Lionel Barrymore returns to star in a Christmas Eve Dickens' Carol on CBS under a five year deal. Hollywood figures Sid Jordan Joel McCrea Fred Allen Grace Moore Anna May Wong Leslie Howard hover around New York and London for stage and screen, while fans chase autographs and a mix of contracts and travels unfold.
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Lionel Barrymore
Scrooge
CBS
Hollywood
Sid Jordan
Shark Island
Fort Jefferson
Warner Baxter
Lloyds of London
Nelson
Banjo
Joel McCrea
Mississippi
Leslie Howard
Hamlet
New York
Howard
Christmas Reunion At The Thomas Home In Glendale
Preparations fill the Thomas household in Glendale for a Christmas reunion. Lauris decorates as Johny’s homecoming becomes a joyful surprise with Santa, a soldier, and Mrs. Johnson welcomed to celebrate. The family reads a telegram and shares gifts, food, and carols as snow falls outside.
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Thomas
Glendale
Lauris
Johny
Mother
Tim
Father
Jonesy
Santa Claus
Star of Bethlehem
Bella
Mrs. Johnson
Santa
Western Newspaper Union
Meaning of Christmas Emphasizes Generosity and Unselfish Spirit
The first meaning of Christmas is generosity inspired by God's gift to mankind. The message notes the world’s selfish sway is broken for a time and the Christ spirit is born in hearts. It acknowledges that gift giving can become burdensome, but any act that makes the world more unselfish is good.
Popcorn Ball Decorations for Christmas Tables
Popcorn balls wrapped in red and green tissue or silver paper make attractive centerpieces for Christmas dinners and parties. A small favor inside adds interest, and hung on lower branches they serve as pretty tree ornaments.
Choosing Bird for Christmas Disney
Miss Anna belle Robinson urges selecting a properly sized turkey to ensure ample meat for guests and reduce post holiday leftovers. A 15 pound bird serves about 20 people, 10 pounds about 13, with three fourths pound per guest as a guideline even with dressing.
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Annabelle Robinson
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Choosing a Fat Plump Turkey for Flavor
Robinson advises selecting a turkey that is fat and plump, whether from home flocks or markets. A young bird with smooth skin and meaty breast and thighs yields better flavor and avoids dryness from poor flesh.
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Robinson
St Nicholas Visits Holland Tradition Begins on December 5
Johan Hart recalls in Picture Tales from Holland how St Nicholas, a kindly bishop, came to Holland years ago on December 5 to give children gifts. Since then he returns yearly to fill wooden shoes with toys, while Dutch children leave carrots for his horse.
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Hildren
Holland
St. Nicholas
Johan Hart
Width Based Height and Weight Guidelines From Dr Pryor
Dr Helen Brenton Pryor presents width height tables from a five year study of 10 000 children and students. She shows seven averages based on width and height, noting 30 percent are misclassified by old height weight norms. A stocky girl at 5 4 may weigh 107 to 133 pounds depending on hip width, with wider bodies tipping the scale higher. Vegetables in liquid form are promoted as a quick meal in Reader’s Digest style.
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Buard
Helen Brenton Pryor
Stanford University
New York
The Choice Between Independence and Companionship
A meditation on choosing between independence and loneliness within families and marriages. It argues wise individuals weigh affection and restraint, noting that companionship sustains ties and that separation brings loneliness yet can fail to sever affection. It concludes that family bonds should keep loneliness barred.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Outdoing Webster on Interpretations
A fragmented list contrasts colors with images and feelings, linking each color to emotions, images, or phrases. The piece mentions green lettuce jealousy immigrant purple violets rage socks white baby’s soul lilies blue shirts laundered short lived wife’s vacation blonde’s love fresh vegetables paint butter men high clouds cover charges poison ivy staying home fierce lions tigers sour ketchup young moving picture industry women under fifty black coal eyes the future life hard cobblestones soft shell crabs life.
Good Resolutions and Maxims From Stowe and Burke
A compact reading of moral maxims on silence fault finding and praise. Mrs. H. B. Stowe advocates inner restraint and considerate conduct, while Burke suggests that opposition strengthens us and aids skill through challenge.
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H. B. Stowe
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Fred Allen
Mort Pictures
New Yor
Anna May Wong
Shanghai
London
England
Gary Cooper
Homer Rhodeheaver
Indiana
Slim Summerville
Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
John Boles
Texas
ZaSu Pitts
Marc
Alice
Jehny
Disney
Wspaper Union
Dr. Barton
Webster
Luden’s
Burke
Marine
Mia
Thas
Magnesia
Wen
Handy Pacrase
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