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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1940
Page
9
Hollywood critic reviews the Northwest Passage preview focusing on brutal Indian portrayals and cavalry action at St Francis. The piece argues film visuals outrun speeches, raises questions about using cinema in education, and adds brief personal observations about stars and public reception.
Hollywood notes recap restless page with Linda Darrell screen test in Stardust and director Walter Lang using the studio test. Akim Tamiroff hair color mishap turns green. Minnie the Model dies at a furnace. Alec Craig charged with beer in fight. Cuff Notes cover romance letters secret, Orson Welles rebroadcast plans, Eddie Cantor politics, Marilyn Monroe and Edward Kohn romance. Ronald Reagan profits from tour. Marjorie Weaver astonished by news.
A dense OCR of WTAM and related stations shows a river of show titles and hosts for February 13 including Gladys, Lowell Thomas, Fred Waring, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Hope, and Gene Krupa. It lists programs across news, music, drama, and variety with numerous hosts and sponsor prompts, reflecting midcentury radio scheduling.
Errol Flynn will receive glamour grooming from Warner Brothers. Mary Healy reports in Washington during the week of March 22, booked by Congressman Warren Magnuson. Director Sidney Lanfield discusses a colored chauffeur explaining the term rebuttal to another servant, noting it as a low form of plastic surgery.
Multiple towns schedule events including Avon Lake New Friends class with Carl Horn at 8 P M and a 6 P M Aaron Slick From Pumpkin Creek play for PTA, various classes and clubs in Grafton LaGrange Litchfield New London North Olmsted Ridgeville and more Tonight and Wednesday feature meetings, study groups, card parties, dances, and cultural activities. The listings show a wide range of groups, venues, and times across the region.
Mrs Ruth J Walters daughter of Mrs Ida Schafer of Wellington wed Russell Lee Stevick son of Mr and Mrs Ray Henry at 3 PM in their Lincoln Street home. Attendants included La moine Snell sister of the groom as matron of honor and Snell as best man. Guests from Wellington Mansfield and Pittsfield attended the ceremony and dinner.
Mrs Watts was taken to the Clinic for treatment. Attorney Heddesheimer sang at the Methodist church. The choir and soloists performed during morning worship. Epworth League guests included Howard Smith Leonard Smith and Alice Hardy. Plans for degree work at Wellington Grange, a pot luck supper, soup sale February 17 by the Darcas Society, and youth rally preparations for the Methodists are announced.
The infant daughter Lois Marie Bowman of Mr. and Mrs George Bowman of Penfield died at Oberlin Hospital at 625 o'clock Wednesday morning. Private funeral services were held Thursday at 230 o'clock at Andrews Funeral Home. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery in Wellington. Founders Day observance by the Parent-Teachers Association featured reports and music at the February meeting led by president W H Myers.
The Penfield community held a box social raising $7.75 after a meeting with a birthday cake. Farm Women's Club met at the Hall with 23 attendees as dinners were served by hostesses. Card parties and pinocle club plans were announced for February 15 and related Grange activities noted. Cleveland visitors were seen among attendees.
George W. Stowe of Lewiston owns a razor once used to shave George Washington. The blade came from Blaisdell’s family lineage. bought in England, it was sent to the commander in chief while Blaisdell served in the Revolutionary War.
Walter Connolly appears as a doctor imprisoned for his faith in mankind in Those High Grey Walls shown Wednesday at the new Rivoli Theatre. The picture presents a moral drama set in a penitentiary context with Connolly delivering a restrained central performance.
Sabotage, murder and espionage fuse in Nick Carter Master Detective as the Capitol Theatre presents the film Wednesday. The installment follows a secret agent plot with danger, intrigue, and a climactic confrontation at the film’s finale.
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