Hollywood mailbags reveal stars famed and fabled
Jimmie Fidler writes from Hollywood about Hollywood letters to top stars. He notes Mae West, Mary Astor, Clark Gable, Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, and Step n Fetchit receive vast mail, ranging from ribald to heartfelt, with fans guessing private lives. Fidler shares a personal sample about Mae West and dieting with a sharp, gossip tone.
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Hollywood
Mac West
Mae
Mary Astor
Mary
Clark Gable
Irene Dunne
Myrna Loy
South
Mae West
San Francisco
Night club star Sheila Barrett tops New York draw
New York gossip notes Sheila Barrett as this season’s standout night club act and highest paid. Born in Washington DC, daughter of a prominent attorney, she excels in swimming and equestrian events but pursues satire on stage. Her best impersonation is Lionel Barrymore with Fanny Brice a close second. Louis Long is cited as her preferred writer. The column also mentions common food cravings like hash and chili.
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New York
Sheila Barrett
Long Island Hamptons
Sutton Place
Cissie Loftus
Miss Barrett
Washington, D. C
Pittsburgh
Lionel Barrymore
Fanny Brice
Louis Long
Cosmopolitan writer roams world with ease and wit
The piece praises a highly mobile author who frequents Tunis each winter and moves with ease among global elites. It notes Charles Washburn’s playful history of Chicago’s Everleigh Club era and hints at another publisher’s planned book on New York’s Hay Market.
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Charles Washburn
Broadway
Chicago
Everleigh Sisters
Bagnis
Washburn
John Chapman
New York
6Th Avenue
Woman Baits Clark Gable With Bridge Tea Prizes
A Chicago woman moved next to Clark Gable and invited him to chat about dogs and hunting. After his visit, she saved his cleared winnings and planned to offer Clark Gable mementos as prizes at her bridge tea, provoking neighborly drama.
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Chicago
Clark Gable
Clark
Gable
Elyria Council Installs Jr. Order U A M Officers
Elyria Council No 406 Jr. Order United American Mechanics held a well attended meeting. Officers installed included councilor Carl Scheibel and vice councilor Joe Hanson. Captain A M McWilliams reported bowling team progress while Captain James Wells led the degree team. New officers pledged support and Scheibel urged active participation ahead of February district initiation. A lunch followed.
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Elyria Council No. 406, Jr
United Ameerican Mechanics
A. Hopkins
A. M. McWilliams
Hambley
James Wells
A. H. Hopkins
F. B. Wells
Elyria Council
Carl Scheibel
Joe Hanson
Donald Smith
Kenneth Botamer
H. J. Ryan
Russell Smith
James Hambley
A. McWilliams
Frank Brunner
Inside Sentinel
al Ryan
Outside Sentinel
Nelson Chester
Arthur Hopkins
Brother Wells
Harvey Rice Council
Scheibel
Ground broken for elder cottages at Elyria Home for the Aged
The Elyria Home for the Aged opened a cottage project to house elderly couples seeking privacy and security. The home, with 87 residents and a 20 person payroll, spends about 50 000 a year locally. Visitors and church offerings generate significant local revenue, while the cottage program, costing 4 000 to 5 000 dollars each, could add about 100 000 to the investment and boost local employment.
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Elyria
Karl Meister
Home
Ohio
Home For the Aged
Elyria Home For the
Newest Extreme In Art World Surrealism Splits Openness
A critique of surrealism describes it as a craze in New York exhibitions driven by dreams interpreted through art. It condemns artists for unchecked imagination and calls the movement obscure and irrational, hoping the fad will fade.
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New York
Will Continue Perhaps Forever Nuisance Taxes May Persist
The piece notes nuisance taxes on oil and gas products, plumbing goods, radios, phonographs, rail and power costs, automo biles and parts, with import duties on coal and lumber. It questions whether Congress will let these taxes expire this year or extend them for one or more years, possibly indefinitely, as federal needs for revenue remain large.
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Congress
Optimists Trigger Alarm On Suicide Risk Says Kobayashi
Tokio clinic head Ryunosuke Kobayashi warns optimistic people may be likelier to take their own lives when faced with severe adversity, arguing pessimists brace for catastrophe while optimists lack strong moorings. He cautions balance with humor and good cheer as protective traits.
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Ryunosuke Kobayashi
Tokio
Green Christmas Loses Luster In Wrecks And Sickness
A bright warm holiday weekend brought 161 casualties and 555 traffic deaths, topping Fourth of July losses. Open roads spurred reckless driving while city hospitals report bronchial infections in poor neighborhoods due to overheated homes and lax outdoor precautions.
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New York City
Pop Corn Bill, Noted Bars Figure, Dies After Joust
In Herald Square era a friendly bar character known as Pop Corn Bill, small in stature and famed for devouring bowls of popcorn, vanished after an extraordinary bout. He collapsed and died en route to hospital, a death deemed D. O. A. with lingering legends in local bars.
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Herald Square
Bill
Somerset Maugham the master of sharp conversation
Rebecca West recounts Maugham meeting a mourning lady and joking about her grief with a sharp line. The famed writer, turning 63, remains vivacious and travels from London with his valet Hodgkins to distant lands like Borneo or Sumatra on short notice.
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Somerset Maugham
Rebecca West
Maugham
Waiting Scottie Finds a Home Amid Window Puppies
A lone Scottie sits among excelsior in a storefront window, the last pup. A well dressed woman returns, ponders, and at last takes the Scottie on a leash, offering happiness and future grief in equal measure.
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McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Anniversaries and today in history highlights
A chronicle lists notable anniversaries with births and deaths of figures such as Joan of Arc, Joseph Holt, Charles Sumner, Owen Lovejoy, Thomas M. Cooley, John Calvin Brown, and Duncan A. Fletcher. It also notes today in history items including George Washington’s marriage and New Mexico statehood in 1912, along with Henry Ford’s $5 daily wage claim in 1914.
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Joan of Arc
Joseph Holt
Kentucky
Lincoln’s
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
Boston
Owen Lovejoy
Illinois
Albion
Thomas M. Cooley
Michigan
Attica
N. Y
Ann Arbor
Mich
John Calvin Brown
Tennessee
Giles Co
Tenn
Duncan A. Fletcher
Florida
Sumter Co
Washington
George Washington
Martha Custis
Congress
New Mexico
Henry Ford
Horoscope for Today Shows Kind, Adaptable Fortunes Likely
Today presents a compassionate, adaptable outlook with strong commercial sense and a polished demeanor. Yet the reading warns of potential harm if the sympathetic nature is exploited under certain circumstances.
Wage shocks and Roosevelts rise to prominence in early 20th century
A fragmented note recalls a wage announcement startling a nation unaccustomed to party labor, mentions Theodore Roosevelt’s death at Oyster Bay in 1919 at age 61, and notes 1936 Supreme Court invalidation of the A A A while President Roosevelt proposes nearly a million dollars for the army and navy in the next fiscal year.
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Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
U. S. Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Notable births announced for prominent figures from 80 years past
Carl Sandburg of Harbert Michigan poet and writer born at Galesburg Illinois 59 years ago Felix Morley editor of the Washington Post born at Haverford Pennsylvania 43 years ago Joseph Medill Patterson publisher of New Yorks Daily News born in Chicago 58 years ago Tom Mix screen star born in El Paso County Texas 57 years ago Admiral Hugh Rodman retired U S N born at Frankfort Kentucky 78 years ago Judge Ferdinand Pecora of the Supreme Court of New York State born in Italy 55 years ago Alice M Wadsworth of Geneseo New York woman leader born in Cleveland 57 years ago
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Carl Sandburg
Harbert
Mich
Galesburg
Ill
Felix Morley
Washington, D. C. Post
Haverford
Joseph Medill Patterson
New York’s
Daily News
Chicago
Tom Mix
el Paso Co
Tex
Hugh Rodman
Frankfort
Ferdinand Pecora
Supreme Court of
New York State
Italy
Alice M. Wadsworth
Geneseo
N. Y
Cleveland
Movie gossip overheard at the barbershop in 1937
A barber, dentist, cigar counter man, and others share habit views on film stars. They note actors' haircuts and chins, teeth and porcelain caps, smoking cues, manicure behavior, and Lily Pons’s onstage muffed lines. Lily’s switch to French is praised as expressive.
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John Boles
John
Gene Raymond
Lily Pons
Lily
McNaught Syndicate
Richards brothers lead Oberlin glee clubs across generations
Oberlin history repeats as O M Richards once led the college glee club in Cortland Ohio. Now his son Walter Richards a senior at Oberlin serves as club president. Another son is a sophomore member and a third son sings with the Oberlin freshman glee club.
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Oberlin
Ohio
O. M. Richards
Cortland
Oberlin College
Walter Richards
Nelson
Berlin's Herman Gering Street Featured on Main Thoroughfare
A notable stretch in Berlin highlights Herman Gering Street as one of the city’s principal avenues. The segment underscores its prominence in traffic, commerce, and local identity, reflecting urban planning priorities and historical naming conventions.
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Berlin
Herman Gering
Tailor ad notes new public servants in office
Got tlieb the Tailor announces in a brief notice that new public servants have assumed office. The shop urges readiness for a coming prosperity wave and reminds readers campaign expenses must be met as suits are dry cleaned and pressed for 55 cents at 711 West Broad.
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Gottlieb
Education Must Be Continued In Adulthood For Growth
A quotation emphasizes continuing education into adulthood to prevent loss of gains from childhood. It warns that inactive study leads to atrophy of abilities and skills developed earlier in life. The message urges lifelong learning and ongoing intellectual effort.
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O. O. McIintyre
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North Africa
Diamondat
Tonacco Co
West Broad
Bof l
Murbach Coal Co
Bridge St. Coal
Bell Co
Mill St
Spaleo
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