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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1939
Page
17
Local column highlights Mrs William Flannerys home in the T M 1 District with handmade pay print drapes floral wall art and a glassed in bay window. Noting Mrs Fishery sewing rug making and ANN HARLEY wedding gown reuse. References to Mrs Logan Tobins red car Stewart Johnsons trip and Bruce Rollins Browns family plus Robinsons fish pond and C E Beckers party conflicts with baseball news.
Mrs. Robert J. Harding Jr. visits Ballinger with daughters Cynthia and Louise. Julie Mae Davis departs June 10 for a Mexico vacation via Saitillo and Goahuıla, then a border tour to Guatemala. Dorothy Bell Newton leaves for Chicago to study six weeks under Rudolph Gang at the Musical College. Jack Lewis family resigns from New York City stock for the World's Fair. Beacon Hill Presbyterian women’s auxiliary plans home meetings across eight groups with hosts and times. Westway review convenes Thursday with Nell Moody presiding and a planned 8 bingo party for the crew heading to New York in July. Texas prima donna Olive Finley to headline numbers at the convention. Summer tennis at Koehler’s Park starts June 26. Mattie Reeve of Alamo Review guest, July office closure noted. Eastdth review council meets at Roosevelt Park for luncheon and business after the plate.
Dolly Dorothy Manner surveys Hollywoods shift from studio grooming to on the job trial. Young hopefuls like Brenda Joyce Linda Darnell Mary Healy and Kathey Adams rise via rapid casting at Twenty first Century Fox MGM and other studios as evaluators decide if they sink or swim. The piece weighs risks of fast tracking against traditional training and notes mixed success with early stardom.
Mr and Mrs W G Martin Jr and Mrs Matilda Martin host a picnic and swimming party at Warnecke Park in New Braunfels in honor of Mr and Mrs Paul McGrath of New York City. Mrs McGrath is Lula Worbert from Union City. Mr McGrath, Broadway star, has just finished a Jong engagement in Steers and Gad opposite Gertrude Lawrence. The McGraths plan a Hollywood visit to stay with Joan Leiters of the cinema. Mr McGrath contemplates a return trip to perform there. The South San Antonio chapter Order of the Eastern Star meets Thursday at 8 pm. Sentinel Samuel H Delaney will be installed.
On Fathers Day reflections mix satire with praise as fathers endure teen antics and the article lauds paternal instinct. Community society items mention a Santa Rosa fundraiser rally, picture books for crippled children, candy drives, and upcoming meetings of local groups including the Zant Zants Gravity and the Beezemaven auxiliary with plans and hostesses.
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