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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1940
Page
9
A bustling roundup from Around the Plaza Cincinnati features local stars, band news, and social happenings. entertainers and staff travel from Bal G Underwood to Change Field, with reports of Beulah Howard, Helen Tavish, and Gloria Mayo among performers and photographers.
Photographer spots Phyllis 14 Glory 12 and Anne 11 performing Tilpa leaps. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jan Anderson. A girl named Linda Garcia, 22, is said to have rushed to a hospital from malnutrition after a terse home incident. Authorities moved to hospitalize yet details remain scant.
A gripping film tale stars George Haft Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon returning to the State theater Tuesday. Raft plays a night club owner sent to Alcatraz, with Lloyd Nolan as his attorney and Bennett as his wife who travels to San Francisco. Taft’s escape and reunion with his wife are among highlights. In New York, writer Harlan C. McIntosh, 42, fell to his death from a Greenwich Village penthouse roof while warning pedestrians below.
Hollywood buzz reports Universal signed Carol Bruce, star of Louisiana Purchase, to a Universal film after a swift New York trip by casting director Dan Keily. Rumors swirl over William Holden, George Raft, Miriam Hopkins, and other stars as contracts, salaries, and potential pairings loom amid busy studio negotiations.
The George Abbott musical adapts Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors into a modern farce. Alan Jones Joe Penner Martha Raye star with Rosemary Lane Charing Byterworth Rene Reverby Erle Sloane and Samuel Hinds in a midnight Saturday performance featuring Rodgers and Hart songs.
A First Cavalry convoy led by Pat Bliss departs Doddfield for a Third Army battleground in Louisiane. The 270 vehicle unit from EL Paso and a 50 vehicle Fifth Cavalry group from Fort Clark head separate routes toward Fort Sam Houston, with hot, dry conditions and possible rain delaying plans. New equipment includes large two compartment trailer units for carrying eight horses and eight men.
A farewell party for Bishop and Mrs. Arthur J. Moore will be held on the University of San Antonio campus at 8 p.m. August 16. The event is hosted by Travis Park Methodist Church as their bishop and Mrs. Moore relocate to a new episcopal residence in Atlanta Georgia.
Myrna Loy and William Powell star in I Love You Again at the Majestic this Saturday. Powell’s character shifts from crook to respectable to shady, while Loy navigates their fraught marriage as Frank McHugh Edmund Lowe Donald Douglas and Nella Walker support under W.8. Van Dyke’s direction includes color cartoon and new steel print.
A San Antonian slept on an awning above the Tom Cat cafe at 127 South Santa Rosa avenue after cafe owner heard noises. Patrolman J R Andrews arrested a drunken man who claimed the name Pete Montiel and address 311 South Santa Rosa avenue.
S A Man Named to Junior Bar Group Park street of San Antonio Br жаuday had been appointed to the 1940 41 precutive committee of the Junior bar section of the Texas Bar ARMIMIRON fk WRK BtMon tt Austin by William A. Cline of Wharton president
A detailed listing of radio programs across KTSA and partner stations, detailing show titles, hosts, times, and network identifications. Includes music blocks, news segments, parades, dance programs, and late night variety features with cross references to stations such as KTSA KOA and Columbia Broadcasting System.
Drama on CBS Saturday 6 30 p m links Napoleon's plan to invade England with Hitler by about 135 years. University of Chicago historians provided background via New York interviews with Dr Geoffrey Brunn. Pat Barreth's Uncle Ezra airs on NBC from Nashville. world premiere of Comin Round the Mountain noted.
A satirical column critiques the brutal pace of presidential campaigning and the rough handling of information. It notes the American political system allows intense pressure around the election while warning against overreach and the power of political machines.
Movie review notes audiences hissed war newsreels during neutrality era, praising Black Jack sentiment and Turnabout comedy starring John Hubbard Carole Landis Adolph Menjou. Also reports Mrs Willingham promoted to district supervisor of WPA sewing rooms in Devine with Lela Jobe succeeding in Devine.
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