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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1937
Page
3
A 19th century perspective argues slenderness as beauty but not minus curves. The article links diet balance to gains or losses in weight, urges fresh produce with rich dairy and starches for the thin, and stresses exercise to develop proportion and symmetry.
The report notes a shift from cotton to pine forests across the South as soil conservation efforts promote planting loblolly slash and longleaf pines. Experiments show pine pulp and paper potential, with forests yielding $15 to $25 per acre for pulp wood and future textile uses.
Beckley hosts a weekly film and revue lineup at three venues. Sunday features Irene Dunn in Theodora Goes Wild at Lyric with Cain and Mabel at Palace and Crooked Trails at Palace. Monday repeats Sunday, Tuesday adds Three of a Kind at Palace and Sinner Take All at Lyric. Wednesday shows Sinner Take All and Ginlie Go Round revue, plus Suzy at Palace and Polo Joe at Lyric. Thursday repeats Sinner Take All and Girlie Go Round at Lyric and Suzy at Palace. Friday presents Rembrandt at Lyric, North of Nome at Palace, Polo Joe at Lyric, and Unknown Ranger at Palace. Saturday repeats Friday slate.
Irene Dunne stars in Theodora Does Wild a comedy of small town life with Melvyn Douglas and a notable cast as darkly comic escapades unfold. The film follows a small town girl who writes under a pen name her novels become best sellers and a gardener turned illustrator falls in love then disappears leading to a chase to the city for comedic headlines.
Bruce Cabot, famed for gangster parts, attempts newspaper reporting in Sinmer Take All at Beckley for two nights. The comedy thriller blends crime with mystery and humor set amid New York pent houses and police scenes. Grapefruit production tops U S history.
The Pirates on the Bounty captured 416 votes in Film Daily’s annual Ten Best Picture contest. Other high placers include Mr Deeds Goes to Town The Great Ziegfeld San Francisco Dodsward The Story of Louis Pasteur and A Tale of Two Cities. No foreign film ranked in the top ten.
Beckley presents a double feature Friday and Saturday pairing Rembrandt with North of Nome. Charles Laughton stars in Rembrandt while Jack Holt portrays a brave Arctic hunter amid perilous conditions and hijackers in Nome.
Former ace Ted Parsons coached Cary Grant and Franchot Tone in airplane handling. Parsons, who joined the French Foreign Legion at the war’s start, flew with the Lafayette Escadrille and the Storks squadron, officially credited with eight downed planes and seven more unofficially.
Announcer Gives Star Thrashing Fun behind the scenes of a radio performance are portrayed in Easy to Take starring John Howard at the Lyric Thursday. The scene where Howard spanks a boy on microphone thrills seven million radio listeners. Fine acting by Eugene Pallette Richard Carle and Jan Dugan supports the Paramount release directed by Glenn Tryon from Virginia Van Upp screenplay. Typhus is noted as a disease carried by lice.
The cat Lorelei can access every nook of the Paramount set while the canary Satan, Cecil B. DeMille’s pet, lends a homey touch to the Oklahoma homestead in which Horton and his two maiden aunts, the pixilated sisters, live. The chickens are Horton’s prize stock and an experimental farm feature.
Joe E. Brown stars in Polo Joe a light comedy at the Lyric. He plays a timid man who hides fear of horses by claiming polo prowess and endures comic mishaps as he returns to his town and pursues Mary Hilton amid a polo club farce and a hired thug scheme.
Clark Gable and Marion Davies headline Cain and Mabel at the Lyric with music comedy and boxing drama. The cast features Roscoe Karns Allen Jenkins Walter Catlett and David Carlyle in a vibrant back stage and fight scene musical. A Milwaukee divorce case and a Kentucky murder warrant also surface in brief items.
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