Remembering Dimes and Dismissed Sunday Clothes
A guest column recalls a childhood dime lost through a grill at a bank in Durham and a parade of memories about Sunday clothes, a Mammy’s boy, and language curiosities. The piece wanders through reflections on childhood, family, and language while musing on persistent questions about words and meaning.
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Durham
Tobacco Company
Paul
Charlie Chaplin Dictator Film At Pitts Theatre
Pitts Theatre Emphoria shows Chaplin in The Great Dictator Thursday and Friday with Hitler and Mussolini portrayed as monkeys. The schedule also includes Brian Donlevy in A Gentleman After Dark on Thursday, Three Mesquiteers in West Of The Cimarron Saturday, Ken Murray in Juke Box Jenny Sunday June 14, plus a Wednesday double feature The Night Before The Divorce and The Corpse Vanishes.
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Pitts Theater
Emporia
Brian Donlevy
Pitts
Cimarron
Ken Murray
Charlie Chaplin
Hitler
Mussolini
Local Visitor Notes and Weekend Guests
Miss Mildred Ray Grant returned to Emporia Monday after visiting Miss Mary Louise Ray. Milton Loy of Charlotte spent the weekend here with friends.
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Mildred Ray Grant
Emporia
Mary Louise Ray
Milton Loy
Charlotte
Leven Theater Week Offers Hollywood Romance and Westerns
Olivia De Havilland and Henry Fonda star in The Male Animal at Leven Theater with a comedy and act. Tuesday brings Wild Bill Hickok Rides with Constance Bennett and Bruce Cabot. Thursday features Song of the Islands with Jack Oakie Victor Mature and Betty Grable. Saturday doubles with Gentleman At Heart and Lone Rider In Texas Justice. Also at Seven in Enfield We Were Dancing and Captain Of The Clouds. Mrs K B Hamilton of Lynchburg visits local hosts.
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Olivia de Havilland
Henry Fonda
Hollywood
the Leven
Constance Bennett
Bruce Cabot
Bill Hickok
West
Levon
Jack Oakie
Victor Mature
Betty Grable
Cesar Romero
Carole Landis
George Huston
Seven
Enfield
Captain of the Clouds
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Bill Rhodes Weaver
Virginia
Juke Box
Jennie
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SEVON
Weldon
N. C
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Animal News and Act
ITUE
Wild Bill Hickok
Carol Landis
Gentleman AT
George Houston
Texas
Holt of
Secret Service
Leven Theatre
Captain of the
Leven Theater
K. B. Hamilton
Lynchburg, Va
Mrs
IE. C. Padgett
White House
Ann Page
Marvel
Sunnyfield
Lic
Sunnyfield Pure
Birdseye Frozen Foods
Bologna
Franks