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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1937
Page
4
The article surveys the season’s dress options highlighting short and long slim lines for different figures. It notes slender silhouettes flatter many shapes, with references to Paris collections, Chanel gowns, and Molyneux designs featuring gathered hips, flat back panels, and tight sleeves.
A wartime menu suggests serving liver with bacon occasionally in warmer months and offers alternatives. Dishes include green pea succotash with corn and butter, tomato and cucumber salad, baked custard, and tea. The recipe yields six servings and notes canned vegetables are acceptable but not as good.
Preston Foster and Joan Fontaine headline the Palace engagement of You Cant Beat Love. Foster plays a wealthy man who never refuses a dare and causes comic chaos from a bold dating stunt. Barbara Pepper and Herbert Mundin co star in Robert Sisk’s production directed by Christy Cabanne.
War drama set during the Spanish Civil War shown at the Lyric. The Last Train from Madrid follows a last escape as Madrid’s life line is repaired and a multi person cast seeks safety and romance in twelve hours before the train departs.
The Beckley Theatre presents The Devil is Driving depicting a young attorney who wins a sensational criminal case by perjury to become district attorney. He later repents and opposes such acts amid highway deaths caused by drunken drivers.
A concise old style recipe for baked custard using three eggs three tablespoons sugar salt three cups milk one teaspoon vanilla and nutmeg. Instructions include beating eggs stirring in ingredients pouring into custard cups setting in a hot water bath and baking at 375 for 40 minutes or 900 for 60 minutes until the knife test shows a set custard and cooling promptly.
Plain Custard variations use one cup strong coffee per cup milk. Chocolate uses melted chocolate or cocoa in hot milk. Caramel adds sugar to each cup. Maple substitutes sugar with maple or syrup. Coconut uses sugar and coconut. Nut flavor adds chopped nuts. The text ends with a description of mystery pal gift exchanges where members pin names on slips drawn from a hat, ensuring no one draws their own name, with holiday gifts and year end identity reveal.
Kermit Maynard arrives at the Palace Tuesday in Whistling Bullets a Texas Rangers tale. He aims to trap thieves, even risking jail for evidence, finding jail a harsh place to live.
Rhodesi Bob Mitchell was taken to Pinecrest Sanitarium on Thursday for treatment as he faces a tuberculosis threat. The Associated Press reports the case as a health matter affecting the individual.
Bob Burns and Martha Kaye star in Mountain Music at the Lyric. The film follows a memory plagued mountain boy and romantic mix ups, with comic disasters and musical interludes as Burns and Kaye clash then reunite with Terry Walker and John Howard amid a family feud.
Beckley screens the film Topper on Wednesday and Thursday starring Roland Young Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. The comedy follows Cosmo Topper a bank president who encounters a ghostly married couple bent on restoring normal life through one good deed.
The Beckley booking presents Saratoga a romance with horse racing featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. Gable plays a square gambler and bookmaker. Anita Loos and Robert Hopkins adapt a story by the San Francisco team. Jack Conway directs a globe trotting tale from penthouses to a Kentucky farm with a racing climax filmed with special equipment.
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