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Newspaper

The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 05, 1940

Page

7

Harvard Lampoon Names 1939 Film Worst List

Hollywood dispatch reports Harvard University Lampoon editors reveal ten worst pictures of 1939 including The Rains Came Hollywood Cavalcade Winter Carnival St Louis Blues The Fighting 69th Idiot's Delight The Man in the Iron Mask Five Little Peppers and Sad Little Angel and 20000 Men a Year The Wizard of Oz is singled out as the most colossal flop of the year Box office notes show Wizard of Oz earning 56 percent above average.

Baltimore Harvard University Lampoon Hollywood Cavalcade St. Louis Liamie Fidler John Jane Pablo Man In the Iron Mask

Grin and Bear It and Hollywood Flows of Wisdom

A spoofed critique notes Harvard advisors could turn bad scripts profitable by following opposite teachings. It lists stars and personalities like Mickey Rooney, Mary Healy, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Lewis Stone, Donald Crisp, Helen Mack, Pat O’Brien, and Peter Lind Hayes, with quips on their public images and implies a clashing mix of humor and film industry lore.

Mickey Rooney Jack Mary Healy Jack Oakie Clark Gable Hollywood George Bancroft Lewis Stone Donald Crisp Helen Mack Pat O'Brien Peter Lindflayes

Radio Grid Listings and Personalities Reported

A fragmentary radio schedule lists shows on WTAM and WHK with time slots such as 9 Midstream 9 Planet Hour and 9:00 Battle of Ixeres, plus names like Jack Armstrong Horace Heidt Tom Dorsey and Irene Wicker Obin. The garbled OCR preserves station and host references with scattered program notes and unrelated names.

WTAM Jack Armstrong David Atlants Thomas I Wred Warlug Q-Himber Horace Heidt Hattle of Ixeres Hope A WHK Tom Dorsey Irene Wicker Obin Tor Mia News Orphan Annie Py Towiz Lou Aces Frank Gagen Inside of Sport Aldiich Famili

Opry plans nixed by Autry over tobacco link

A Gene Autry super-special for The Grand Old Opry plans faltered after he refused due to tobacco sponsorship. He has long avoided tobacco-ad linked projects, a stance that pleases his millions of young fans and aligns with his public image. The piece notes other Hollywood quirks and anecdotes from the era.

Republic Gene Autry Bill Berke Autry Nashville Gene Musterale

Suburban Calendar of Tonight and Wednesday Events

Local clubs churches and groups list evening and Wednesday activities across Carlisle Columbia Eaton Grafton Lake Avenue New London North Olmsted LaGrange Avon Penfield and Kipton including meetings at homes churches schools and halls with times from 6 P M to 10 30 A M and social events such as card parties and suppers noted for each location. Highlights include Lambda Chi with Miss Phylls Ann Rhoads at Butternut Ridge Road 6 P M and a Sorority House three act comedy Tuesday at Carlisle High School.

Carlisle Lambda Chi Phylls Ann Rhoads Butternut Ridge East Carlisle Lake Avenue Grange Henry Bislicx Lake Avenue — Christian Endeavor New London Boy Scouts Ridgeville—Young Democratic Club West Ridge Carlisle Grange Grange Hall Penfield Penfield Grange Lagrange — Townsend Club P.M. Avon Harold Smith Avon—Sewing Circle Holy Trinity Church Trinity School Brighton Ladies Society Brighton Congregational Church Robert Case LaPorte Ladies Aid LaPorte Methodist Church Eaton — Rural Women's Club Thomas Sampson Frances Eckert Kipton Camden P.T. A Camden High School Audi Turium Johnny Johnson Lagrange Masonic Order D-T. A O. F. Lodge Oddfellow Temple NEW London—Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society Hortense Smith North Olmsted Pine Rebekah Lodge Dover Center Avon — Ladies Aid of the Baptist Church N. J. Barr AVON Baptist Church Brighton — Community Club Wellington Farm Women’s Club Wellington Grange Hall Grafton Charles F. Mott LA Grange Aid Society of the Methodist Church J. W. Thayer May Wheeler Bunyan Corps Ida Rice Cliff North Ridgeville Ridgeville Grange Fields — Fields Ladies’ Aid Miner Eldred

Senior High receives tie clasp at eighth grade dance

The eighth grade dance in the school auditorium Friday night included a tie clasp presentation to Senior High. About six attendees participated in the program led by Betty Long, Lucille Perkins, Shirley Fite, Nellie Saporito, Lillian Anney, Mary Ellen and Merle Baumgardner, and Margaret Jenks, with refreshments served afterward.

Betty Long Lucille Perkins Shirley Fite Nellie Saporito Lillian Anney Mary Ellen Merle Baumgardner Margaret Jenks

Snowslide Sweeps Train From Trestle In Japan

Yamagata Japan March 5 At least 15 persons were killed and 33 injured when a snowslide swept a train off a trestle into the Arawaka River near Tamagaguchi today. Twenty seven passengers were missing. Four cars were swept into a 75 foot ravine with nine feet of snow. The wreck was in an isolated section and reports were incomplete.

Yamagata Japan Arawaka River Tamagaguch

Finns Hope For Long Overdue Snowstorms

Heavy anti-aircraft fire drove raid ing planes from Helsinki as a light snowfall and cooler air raised hopes of overdue snowstorms. The front lines show sustained Russian pressure, with Viipuri holding and Finnish defenses along the Mannerheim line tightening to slow the attack near Taipale and Lake Ladoga.

Helsinki Finland Viipuri Mannerheim Taipale River Lake Ladoga

Advance tickets on sale for Gone with the Wind at Rivoli

The advance sale for the local run of Gone with the Wind begins Friday on the second floor above the new Rivoli Theatre. The ticket office will be open daily from 12 to 6 p.m except Sunday.

Rivoli

Congo Maisie Next Picture At Capitol

Ann Sothern and John Carroll star in Congo Maisie a domestic comedy drama showing Wednesday at the Capitol Theatre.

Congo Maisie Capitol Ann Sothern John Carroll Capitol Theatre

Weolf Of New York at Rivoli Tomorrow

Edmund Lowe Rose Hobard and James Stephenson head the cast of Welf of New York a melodrama showing Wednesday at the new Rivoli Theatre.

Weolf of New York Rivoli Edmund Lowe Rose Hobard James Stephenson Welf New Rivoli Theatre

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