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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 27, 1940

Page

7

TOTS LETTERS REACH SANTA IN SAN ANTONIO

San Antonio youngsters count days to Christmas as letters reach Santa at the North Pole via Fire Chief C A Bart who coordinates donations. Firemen repair toys, wives sew dresses, and city firms join the drive with toy pickups and sewing machines for doll outfits. Donations of dolls and paint are needed. Borden’s and local firms aid.

San Antonio Santa Claus North Pole C.A. Bart Santa Bordens Creameries Borden Borden's Cemitra San Antonians C.4. Hart Ellef King Furniture Company Juske’s Sears-Roebuck Walgreen Drug Company

Notes of an Innocent Bystone and the Week in Film

Walter Winchell notes a year opening for theatre and cinema with Twelfth Night at St James starring Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans. Reviews vary from Milne’s smoke rings to Sarah Simple and Angels Over Broadway. The week’s highlights include Bette Davis in a star turn and Noel Coward melodrama Bittersweet with MacDonald and Eddy.

Helen Hayes Maurice Evans Shakespeare Ststia John Anderson Sarah Simple Provincetown Ellicott City A. A. Milne R. Lockridge Joy Harrington Grenidge Village Yiterard Ben Hecht D. Pairbenks Jr T. Mitchell Noel Coward MacDonald and Eddy Dietrich Tropics U. S. Navy Hollywood Siage Eddie Bracken Desi Arnaz Hal le Roy Ann Miller Frances Langford Tin Pan Alley

Broadway Tews and the Rage of Manhattan in Review

A survey of cultural notes and critiques covers Broadway entertainment from Rage of Manhattan’s loose crowd to Look magazine’s picks of America’s ten great women. It notes Morris Ernst on defeating fringe movements by disclosure, and fancies a mix of literary and social commentary including Walter von Tilburg Clark’s Ox-Bow Incident and the Social Register’s unchanged 400 ban. The piece also mentions war correspondence dangers, a Tacoma bridge collapse reel, and various writers and critics skewering media and art figures of the era.

Morris Ernst United States Liberty League Gogo Schisparelli Paris America Eleanor Roosevelt Dorothy Thompson Fane Millay Alice Longworth Kenneth Bimpson Willkie Tank and Simpson Walter [von ‘Tilburg Clark Dam Avenue New Social Register

Home Brew Fined In Lew County Court

Frank Longoris of Los Angeles was fined 25 dollars and costs by Judge Mc Collum Burnett 1 County Court at Lew for possession of unstamped home brew on November 17 after pleading guilty.

Frank Longoris Durango Street McCollum Burnett Lew

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