Virgin ia Vale and Robert Stanton headlining talent contest
Star Dust winner Virginia Vale will be the named winner of a national talent quest with the male winner dubbed Robert Stanton. The piece notes shifts in Hollywood casting, recalls Wesley Barry signing for Stunt Pilot, and mentions Cecil B. DeMille and Cary Grant, plus radio program changes by The Three Marshalls and odds and ends from the industry.
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Ese Oense Leaky
Virginia Vale
Robert Stanton
Wesley Barry
Monogram Pictures
Tommy
Hollywood
Cecil B. DeMille
Cary Grant
Grant
Marshalls
Peggy
Jack
Kay
Daddy
Captain Fury
New York
Public investigations expose motives behind power struggles
A Washington viewpoint critiques Niagara Falls power case and federal influence in private ownership. The piece condemns how investigations can become political tools and personal promotion for officials and big-name interests like Morgan, Mellon, and Carlisle. It links Ickes and Roosevelt polices to overreach and demagoguery.
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Federal Power Commission
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Power Commission
United States
Congress
South
TVA
Roosevelt
Ickes
Interior Department
Nebraska
The
Congressional Committee
Aluminum Company of America
J. P. Morgan and Company
Carlisle Power
Hugo Black
Black
Supreme Court
Securities and Exchange Commission
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
Frederick the Great Rebukes a Grumbling Officer
The tale recalls Frederick the Great at a late reign levee when an aging Oberst pleads for promotion after decades of service. The king points to artillery mules and notes they too have fought in many campaigns yet remain labeled as mules, delivering a sharp rebuke.
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Robert Jackson
Jackson
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Andrew W. Mellon
Aluminum Company of America
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
LaFollette
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Western Newspaper Union
Frederick the Great
Frederick
Herr Oberst
Oberst
Younkers
Grenadiers
John W. Thomason Jr
American Mercury
The Art of Conversation On the Road
A brief discussion on driving manners warns motorists against debates and arguments while the vehicle is in motion. It advises turning to safe topics like weather clothes sports hobbies art and entertainment and cautions against letting passengers tell jokes.
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Joan Edwards
Kansas City Star
Repairing Sea Cables Off South Africa Coast
A cable ship captain reports repairing a submarine cable break off the South Africa coast with little difficulty. Shore electricians locate breaks with instruments, then the ship grapples, threads along the cable path, and hoists the line to the surface for repair.
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South Africa
Elevator Boy's Comical Test on a Seventh Floor
A comic piece portrays a new elevator boy on his first day guiding customers through floors of a store. The joke escalates as clerks warn of no seventh floor while the customers insist on more floors, culminating in a crash and a punchline about belief.
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Bine
Turtle tale predates modern air travel humor
A Mobile Register item quips that ancient times yielded a clever turtle with a streamlined Sod turret top retractable landing gear and a portable house, humorously suggesting early aviation ingenuity thousands of years before brains carried heavy thinking.
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Star Dust
Scouts
Freddie Bartholomew
Metro
James Stewart
Bhout
George Hicks
NBC
England
Hicks
Brackard
Washington Digest
William Bruckart
National Press Bidg
Washington, D. C
Washington
Congressional
Casa March
Texas
March
Mr. March
Morgans
Mellons
Schoellkopfs
Carlisles
Thomas Paine
Nathanael Greene
Congressional Committee of Foreign Affairs
France
Holland
Louis XVI
Jacobins
Convention
Robespierre
Paine
James Monroe
Ellis P. Bean
Tennessee
Mississippi
Natchez
Bean
Chihuahua
Acapulco
Jefferson Randolph Smith
Georgia
Alaska
Smith
Leadville
Colo
Denver
Creede
Bob Ford
Jesse James
Skagway
Citizens’ Committee
Klondike
Soapy”Smith
Firestone
America
Firestone Auto Supply and Service
Firestone Convoy
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Store
Ses
San
Richard
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