Joyce Sewell Faces Hidden Past at La Barranca
On the eve of her twentieth birthday Joyce Sewell resents her life under her hated stepmother Irma. Irma enlists Helm Blackadder to push Joyce toward marriage to Michael Kirkpatrick, but Joyce discovers that La Barranca, the Mexican hacienda her father owned, now belongs to her and receives a $10,000 Treasury warrant for her mother’s murder. She plans a secret trip to Mexico with banker Mr. Bradley.
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Joyce Sewell
Irma
Helm Blackadder
Joyce
Michael Kirkpatrick
Mike
Blackadder
la Barranca
United States Treasury
Bradley
Mexico
Elsinboro
Mr. Bradley
Frances Holder
State Department
Newark
Joyce Sewell Seeks Inheritance of La Barranca Estate
Joyce Sewell, daughter of the late Cutler Sewell, travels in Mexico seeking to prove ownership of hacienda La Barranca. She presses for access to her father’s dispatches and enlists lawyer Margarida Fonseca, who advises a risky plan and introduces Gen. Zacharias Onelia to advance the case.
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Margarida Fonseca
Joyce Sewell
Cutler Sewell
Joyce
The Polite Intercept at the Embassy Desk
Chapter scene shows Mil Dirk Van Sutart, second secretary, poised for social polish and danger of diplomatic life. Joyce Sewell arrives with a dispatch, prompting Dirk to question her request as she challenges being shown to the ambassador.
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Joyce
Mike Kirkpatrick
Dirk van Suttart
Dirk
Miss Sewell
French nobleman's will orders body faced to sea and radio room
The Marquis d Urre d Aubais left sixty thousand dollars to the French post office with a request that his embalmed body lie in a glass room on the shore facing the Mediterranean sea and equipped with a radio and portraits. Officials built the chamber at Carro with a ship signal radio. his eyes rest behind a glass coffin lid as seamen note the gift and fear.
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Marquis d’Urre d’Aubais
Paris United Press
Mediterranean
Carro
Rogues de Carro
Volcano Sparks Fossil Study of Ancient Plant Life
The 1912 largest known volcanic eruption provided material for fossil study. It offered a rare view of the start and end of plant fossil deposition and the process of fossil formation.
Movie Radio Star Dust previews 1938 stars and moves
The piece surveys the 1938 film stars led by William Powell Clark Gable Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy with James Stewart rising. It notes MGM plans for Mervyn LeRoy directors Shirley Temple and other stars amid contract shifts and new radio and stage engagements across Hollywood and radio networks.
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William Powell
Clark Gable
Paul Muni
Spencer Tracy
James Stewart
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Story Department
Stewart
Jimmy Stewart
Annapolis
Navy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Good night to good morning frocks Sew-Your-Own
This Sew-Your-Own feature highlights spring and early season frocks including a versatile Good-night frock for evenings a bright Good morning dress for daytime wear and a cheerful Good afternoon model. It emphasizes tailored details sleeves girdles belts and collar styles with three patterns 1410 1438 and 1211 and provides yardage for sizes and where to order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois.
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Milady
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU Servica
Information Not to Be Found in Encyclopedia
A quirky item notes common misstatements and joke definitions. It lists odd claims such as period costumes, Shakespeare’s genres, India cast divisions, and Lipton as Ceylon’s capital, then mocks a republic and a fakir with humorous simplifications.
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India
Norway
Christianity
Lipton
Ceylon
Republic
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