Irene Dunne Stars in The Awful Truth at Beckley
Irene Dunne leads the comedy The Awful Truth at Beckley with Leo McCarey directing. Cary Grant and Dunne spar in a double life farce as a divorce plot and a cheeky pup named Mr. Smith add mischief.
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Trene Dunne
Beckley
Leo McCarey
Jerry
Cary, Grant
Lucy
Irene Dunney
Florida
Shaggy Mr. Smith
Asta
The
Thin Man
Ralph Bellamy
Miss Dunne
Mr. Smith
Irene Dunne
Cary Grant
the Beckley
Six Room House in Excellent Taste Adapts to Any Location
Central Préas describes a six room house noted for English style with modern American adaptations. Highlights include a dining nook porch overlooking the garden a large living room ample closet space and a practical layout for a home maker. The house occupies 21 090 cubic feet with building dimensions 25 by 25 feet and overall 27 feet three inches by 39 feet six inches.
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Central Préas
Panther Stalks Mountain Pastor Relates 33-Year-Old Encounter
The Rev. J. A. Wysor recalls a fearsome panther chase in the mountains of Pocahontas Webster and Nicholas counties. He describes hearing screams, hair rising, a broken tree limb, and fleeing until Count Feal Mabe killed the animal with his revolver. The cat reportedly measured nine feet.
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Associated Press
J. A. Wysor
Porshontas
Wicholas
Webster
Mr. Wyser
Costom Ality
Feal Mabe
Hi Father
Tam
Mrs Edith Hobbs Taken To Hospital
Mrs Edith Hobbs of her community was taken to Mc Kendree hospital by ambulance after a serious heart ailment. The mother of several children showed improvement at the hospital after examination by doctors.
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Register Star
Sun
Edith Hobbs
McKendree Hospital
Moderate Luncheon Menu With Corn Bread And Salad
Recipe almanac notes lunch options featuring corn bread with mixed vegetable salad and peach dessert. Includes corn bread, cucumber sauce for meat or fish, mock sponge cake and related serving suggestions with ingredients and step by step instructions.
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Mary Morton
Menui
Keeping Egg Yolks Fresh With Simple Method
The do nothing approach dries yolks. Place yolks in a cup and cover with a wet cloth. Refrigeration keeps them soft and fresh for days.
Joy Shipmate Joy Whitman Verse
Poem fragment echoes Whitman reverent farewell aboard a ship. The speaker celebrates departure from life as the voyage begins with the ship cleared and sailing away from shore. The line Joy shipmate joy underscores communal refrain as mortality is embraced.
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Walt Whitman
England Surprised by U S Theater Mugs in Gangway Cast
England buttons up after importing American actors to its show Gangway at Beckley starring Jessie Matthews. The piece notes Nat Pendleton, Noel Madison, Humphrey Bogart, Warren Hymer and others, detailing their unlikely origins from Yale, Andover, Malta and Columbia as the cast members.
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England
the Beckley
Jessie Matthews
Nat Pendleton
Margate
Noel Madison
Humphrey Bogart
Andover
Warren Hymer
Yale
Pilots Outnumber Planes In West Virginia
The Bureau of Air Commerce reports 111 licensed pilots in West Virginia against 79 aircraft on October 1. Of the pilots 34 held transport licenses 14 limited commercial permits 58 private licenses and five amateurs. The aircraft tally shows 66 licensed and 13 unlicensed planes. Nationwide totals list 17,379 pilots and 10,120 aircraft with 1,690 unlicensed.
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Associated Press
Washington
West Virginia
Bureau of Air Commerce
United States
Mount Hope Star End Charles Carmen Injured in Mount Hope Game
Mustang end Charles Carmen sustains a knee injury in the Beckley Mount Hope game and is unlikely to rejoin the team this season.
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Rogtster
Mount Hope
Charles Carmen
Mustang
Beckley
Notable Italian Performer with Theater Guild Ties
The text praises a sneering mouth as highly intellectual among peers and notes his prominent role in Italy's cultural and political life. It mentions he is an ex Theater Guild player. It also references Jimmy Cagney linked to New York and Columbia University, and similarly Edward G. Robinson.
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Sneering
Italy
Theater Guild
Jimmy Cagney
Sidewalks of
New York
Columbia University
Edward G. Robinson
Local Theaters Feature Crime Drama and Western Action
A two day run opens with Counsel for Crime starring Otto Kruger Douglay Montgomery and Jacqueline Wells exploring newspaper ex poses by corrupt lawyers. Tom Keene appears in God's Country and the Man as he tracks a gang and solves a mystery. Jane Baxter headlines Tuesday in Hideout in the Alps with Anthony Bushell about a former counterfeiter trying to go straight and nearly returning to jail.
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Champ
Otto Kruger
Douglay Montgomery
Jacqueline Wells
Tom Keene
Keene
Jane Baxter
The
Alps
Anthony Bushell
Magic Carpet Causes Death To2 Workmen
Eddie Cantor in Ali Baba Goes to Town on stage at the Lyric next Saturday features Cantor in a Bagdad fantasy with Gypsy Rose Lee. A stunt fall kills two onlookers and injures two crew as property damage runs high during the wakeful dream sequence.
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Eddie Cantor
Ali Baba
Popeyed Cantor
Gypsy Rose Lee
Bagdad
Cantor
Sultan Roland Young
ABC
Hollywood
Eddie
Heir Promises Fortune in Life Begins With Love
A young heir makes a drunken pledge to relinquish his fortune in Life Begins With Love at Beckley. The promise is publicized through news columns and prompts him to leave home incognito. His travels lead to a fresh perspective on life.
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Beckley
High Pass Wins Contest For Madcap Ritz Brothers
The Ritz Brothers in Life Begins in College at the Lyric stage a football plot update with a high pass final score. Nat Pendleton Joan Davis Tony Marx and June Travis supply subplots and athletic farce while Pendleton shines as a millionaire Indian in a lighthearted revue.
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Ritz Brothers
The
Lyric
Nat Pendleton
Joan Davis
Tony Marlin
June Travis
Martin
Pendleton
Nat
Tony
Parker and Linden star in Sweetheart of the Navy at Palace
Eric Linden and Cecilia Parker headline the Palace show in Sweetheart of the Navy. Miss Parker plays Joan Whitney who quits show business for cabaret to face debts as her partner abandons her. The fleet arrives with Linden and Eddie Harris, and love blossoms as she tries to persuade him to join the fight.
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Eric Linden
Cecilia Parker
the Palace
Miss Parker
Joan Whitney
Linden
Eddie Harris
Miner Suffered Chest Injury in Winding Gulf Collapse
B. F. Meeks a Winding Gulf miner remained at Beckley hospital for several days with a chest injury from a fall at the mine yesterday morning. Attendants described his condition as not very serious.
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B. F. Meeks
Winding Gulf
Beckley Hospital
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Stoc
Denton
National Plan Service, Inc
Chicago
Sally
U.S
Jean Parker
New Deal
Madcap Ritz Brothers
Parker
Navy
Beul
Hene Wee
Yew
Delmar
Duper Everett
Addy Crime
Rand Universal News
Yric
Ritz Bros
Tony Martin
Bulsaury & Westons
Miner
Yee
A Rae
Als
Poe
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