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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1939
Page
14
A collage of jokes, anecdotes, and light items from Mark Hellinger, including a brain teaser about Columbus and Washington, bank cashier quip, gypsy fortune teller, a blonde in court, a hillbilly birthday interview, and a mock July calendar. Also a quarterly review praising cinema and books with notes on actors, films, and authors.
In a Rien Vivant Hotel ballroom Martha Martin of the Martin Children's Welfare Association captivates a crowd with a harrowing tale of a child lost to ignorance. Maxwell Rhinwater pleads to marry, but Martha remains focused on her charity work and career, rejecting a long honeymoon for immediate wedding plans.
A San Francisco reader scolds my New York Cavalcade column for focusing on current theater hacks and nightlife. He warns he will drop me unless I revive old Times Square glamour and notable 1900s to 1920s figures, and predicts reader protests will grow if I ignore seniority of past eras.
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