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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1936
Page
12
A clipped, quirky note from a 1920s era page mentions Art Bennack criticizing ragged individuals and Joe Fischey reviving a late-season horse idea. A passerby asks, Where's the bookkeeper, spotlighting a small business tension as the new year opens.
The city enjoys a lively after dark scene with multiple bands and venues busy for the holidays. Notables include Stanley Haste at the Gunter, trombonist Glare Travis visiting from Michigan, and Hasty mentions of Wellscr Leury of Houston. The Empire in Chuedes features Polo Joe Brown, while Carl Crawford and Low Valentine draw attention for local performances and a notable eight minute transcription of Edward's abdication speech. Local lore mentions a broccoli dish misread as crockulay and a few colorful anecdotes from hotel banquets and shop displays.
A community Christmas service at St Mark's Episcopal Church will be held at 4 p m on Sunday led by junior choir and young people. At 7 30 p m a pageant titled The Completion of Bethlehem will be performed by church groups.
A pageant titled The Life of Christ will be staged at Harriman Place Christian Church 201 Human Place during the evening service. Directed by Mrs Guy W Mayfield, wife of the pastor, the production features pantomime tableaux and 30 cast in 19 scenes depicting the life of Christ.
Governor Alf Landon plans a Baltimore appearance to honor an early campaign pledge. He previously stopped in Baltimore to deliver a brief address and stated a wish to dine on oysters and terrapin. He travels from Topeka to attend events with H. L. Mencken as host.
Parents of Ruby Townsend aged 15 and Elen Hill aged 14 report their daughters from 495 and 423 Ash Street disappeared after Tuesday. They say the girls were last seen with two youths and police are investigating possible travel toward Suc Anto 1 io.
Walter Wanger completes You Only Live Once starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda marking a peak in his career as two more films roll into early release and five others move toward cameras History Is Made at Night and Saunder Lightning listed as early productions Flora Robson Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart head Troopship with Brien Palmer producing for London Film The Wheaton directs replacing William Cameron Menzies who shifts to associate producer for Alexander Korda
Police records show five armed robberies in San Antonio Friday night and early Saturday. Investigations indicate the same two-bandit pair, described as a thin man and a short thin man in a black automobile, staged the holdups at multiple locations including West Evergreen, Zatamura, West Laurel, Chestnut and Crockett, South Flores, and South Alamo streets. Victims reported cash sums from $1 to $46 and a long knife used in one incident.
Two special Christmas services are set for Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. P. Hill delivering the messages. The 11 a.m. service features a talk by Dr. Hill on Three Attitudes Toward the Christ Child, and the 5 p.m. service presents the Christmas Joy gift drive for aged or infirm ministers. Church school pupils will sing carols and older members will present a program of choral readings.
Dr J Grady Timmons pastor of Travis Park Methodist Church will deliver The Message of Christmas as the Sunday sermon at 30 50 am The choir directed by Charles Stone will present The Christmas Carols of the Nations In the evening the annual Christmas Offering for missions will be taken per the bulletin
A fragmented, era flavored column by ARTI Baer. The text references Edward the Third, Wally, Lonion, and a Maryland gal amid odd lines about royalty, abdication, Napoleon, and swans on the Thames. The readable content is nonsensical and garbled with names and phrases lacking clear context or event.
A Saturday blaze at Hit Weir farm six miles west of town destroyed about 40 tons of hay valued at a large sum. A Wilkman alerted owner Weir who summoned the fire department. Captain DeGasper and Station 10 fought the flames and saved nearby sheds after drawing water from an earthen tank. A tin can smelling of gasoline was found near the haystack but no suspect is named.
After a production schedule move up Paramount retooled its cash for Tightwad with Lew Ayres and Mary Carlisle in leading roles. Paul Gallien is noted for the Saturday Evening Post story.
Representatives from the National Recreation Association were in San Antonio on Friday to arrange a city sponsored playground recreation institute. The program runs February 8 to March 5 at a cost of 1590 dollars. Faculty will be drawn from association notices in New York and subjects include music, social recreation, dramatics, nature story, arts and crafts. Classes for whites will meet at 30 Matachinos Street and the control recreation building on Potomac Street, five days a week from 9:45 am to 2:00 pm and from 5:50 pm to 10:30 pm.
The Rev W L French pastor of the First Church of the Nexavene North Colorado and Prns streets will speak on The Message of the Manger Sunday morning. The evening subject will be The Man With an Alibi.
Paris Det 19 1 France famed headsman Anatole Deibler the hereditary executioner announces his plan to retire after 50 years presiding over the guillotine. He has executed about 270 people and says he owes the government his departure. He proposes his nephew Arube Obrecht as successor, a middle aged automobile mechanic already practicing beheadings. Deibler inherited the post from his father who held it since 1880.
Deputy tax collector W H Winsenant said Saturday that 7837 poll tax receipts issued up to December 39 this year, about 100 fewer than November 1935. He noted the total is unusually high as next year is an off year, with many voters over 60 yet to transfer permanent exemption certificates. A temporary exemption is available for first time voters turning 21 in 1967 or who dated in 107.
Beacon Hill announces Christmas services with a morning message on The Crowded Inn and an evening candlelight service titled Glory to God. The evening circle of the Woman's Auxiliary sponsors the event at the Beacon Inn or nearby Presbyterian church.
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