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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1939
Page
6
A comic revue of hotel mix ups and seaside misadventures unfolds in scenes from a hotel wake up alarm to a drunken coney island game and a racing film gag. Bystanders include a barber sleeper, a shapely blonde concession, a wary waiter, and a wry husband with a wife as security.
A humorous Father’s Day feature lists famous figures sending messages to dads. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James Cagney are among the names, offering playful quips on taxes, politics, and family life while noting the average father at his desk.
A lively roundup highlights TARZAN AND HIS SON with Weissmuller and O'Sullivan, plus S O S TIDAL WAVE. It also praises PASSPORT FOR A GIRL by Mary Borden and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathaniel West. Other picks include THE BISHOP JOTS IT DOWN, Wuthering Heights fame for Olivier, Kay Kyser’s LAMP IS LOW, and sports buzz on Harvard Yale baseball and regatta prospects at New London.
Willis White known as Lucky Willie rose from small time bookmaker to famed gambling king at apartment 230 Central Park. A mysterious shooting ends his ascent and the watch stops at 2:30 as Brooklyn police search for clues in the case.
A fragmentary reminiscence on New York figures in Manhattan society. George M. Cohan and Daniel Frohman appear solitary or paired with few companions, while Louis and David Marx move with entourages. Vignettes touch on Sam Zalud’s marine décor work, the Bald-Head Club, and older newsroom habits, ending with musings on the evolving reporter stereotype and attire.
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