Money matters and star moves in Hollywood radio circles
Major Bowes faces contract talks as sponsors push for a renewal at 15 000 dollars per broadcast with 18 000 previously. Amateurs earn five dollars per appearance, doubles with a group, and real money if joining a unit. Stars scatter post Garden of Allah, with Dietrich Rathbone Boyer Schildkraut heading Europe. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire continue work, Hepburn plans Jane Eyre tour, Sullavan eyes New York stage, Taylor mobbed in New York, plus Brinsley Sheridan film revival and other industry notes.
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Major Bowes
Marlene Dietrich
London
Europe
Basil Rathbone
Charles Boyer
Paris
Joseph Schildkraut
Austria
Hollywood
Katharine Hepburn
Theater Guild
Margaret Sullavan
New York
A Dress Suit Dream and a Village Boy’s Rise
Sherman Whipple grows from a small town youth in Wimpusville toward fame on the society page via a fantasy dress suit. He pursues high fashion and vaudeville glamour, clashes with dress codes, and ends with a constrained wardrobe and a rueful moral about destined fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NCE
Wimpusville
Sherman Whipple
Sherman
Henry
Alys
Alys Montague
Geoffrey Durante
Geoffrey
Gladys Marston
John Drew
Whipple
Metropolitan Opera House
Bitter campaign premonitions mix with party nostalgia
In Ganta Monica and Philadelphia observers forecast a fierce campaign with Union party tensions. The piece recalls past wartime unity and mocks political vaudeville as figures like Al Smith, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin loom over the looming convention and the potential shifts in power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ganta Monica
Calif
Bill Hayward
France
al Smith
Philadelphia
A Charming Modish Raglan Sleeve Dress Pattern
An easy to sew non sleeved dress with raglan shoulders and back yoke, suited for office wear and day functions. Features two roomy pockets and a flattering neckline, with fabric options tub silk linen crepe or printed fabrics for a sophisticated silhouette. Pattern 1857 B in sizes 14 to 42 with busts 32 to 42. 37 8 yards of 39 inch material for size 16 plus belt. 15 cents for pattern. send orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbera Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Syllables Test Puzzle Unites Columns To Form Ten Commata
A two column syllable puzzle asks to remove one syllable from the first column and join it with one from the second to create ten comma separated words. Entries include parts like cul tion con duce and di require careful pairing to yield valid terms.
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Pace
Ude
Pre
Duct
Gain
Phrasebook of Foreign Phrases and Latinate Terms
A compact list of foreign, classical, and legal phrases with translations. Entries include covidite? bonjour coup de grace de jure en avant soho femme de chambre gnothi seauton laissez faire quoad hoc iterum petitio principii and other glosses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gnothi Seauton
Iterum
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Star Dust Movie Radio
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Jack Dawn
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Ben Lyons
Bebe Daniels
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Barbara
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Bebe
Riviera
Fred Allen
Massachusetts
Robert Taylor
Taylor
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Shirley Temple
Rudy Vallee
Suffolk Law School
Richard Barthelmess
Napoleon
George Raft
Harry Warner
Warner Brothers
Louis Pasteur
Western Newspaper Union
George Ade
WIN Berries
MR. Whipple
Sweeney
Haute Monde
Twelfth Ward
The
Union Party
Cleveland
Union
Doctor Townsend
Congressman McGoarty
Father Coughlin
Huey Long
Dewey
Pink
Jim Hogg
Griffin
Hogg
Irvin S. Cobb
Ted
Joe Sree
Joe E. Brown
U.S.A
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E. Brown
Grare-Nura
By Lowell Henderson
Beil Syndicate
Bergeant
Dempster Mill
MFG. CO
Beatrice, Nebr
Washington Irving
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