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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
6
Jimmie Fidler argues that during wartime cinema should educate and entertain to ease public anxiety. He urges Hollywood stars like Greer Garbo and Bing Crosby to lead by example, stressing film as a vehicle for American freedom and sanity amid worldwide devastation.
Hollywood gossip and industry notes recount future screen roles and offscreen foibles of Katharine Hepburn, Beverly Wills, Jean Harlow, and others. The piece touches on casting, marriages, citizenship, and wartime implications amid a lively peek at events and snappy anecdotes from 1937 cinema.
A dense list of radio time slots and program titles across WAM 1070 and WHR 1390, including Abner, Malcolm Claire, Guest Book, Lowell Thomas, Evening Prelude, News, Sports, Dinner Hour, Bing Crosby, Fred Waring, and music interludes, with scattered entries for poetry society and boxing match coverage.
Avon Lake holds school commencement at 8 p m thursday. Columbia Farm Bureau Home Council meets at 3 p m at the Wade home. Lake Avenue hosts North Elyria Grange and Juvenile Grange on Griswold Road at 8 p m with Carl isle Grange members as guests. North Ridgeville hosts Four-H at 7 p m at Mrs Cummings home for a marshmallow roast. North Ridgeville also hosts a Young Democratic club dance at Island Park Avon with Avon Aces performing. Carlisle East Carlisle Community club meets friday at the school with a card evening and refreshments. North Ridgeville fish supper served at Ridgeville Grange hall starting 5 30 p m friday. North Olmsted Ladies Auxiliary Kiwanis meet with Mrs Laubscher at 11 30 a m. Spencer commencement exercises for the senior class friday evening with Judge Arthur H Day as speaker.
Avon Lake Athletic Association will sponsor two dances on Tuesday May 28 at 8 p m in Park Hall. A good orchestra is promised and proceeds go to the ball field fund.
Vivian Horwedel hosted her Seniors class at Lake road home Monday evening with a wiener toast. The Just Home Folks cast and helpers were guests of American Legion Post 211 at a Fish Fry at the Chateau on Walker road after Lorain High performances. Dancing followed and the fish fry was a big success. Sons of Legionaires, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts aided the Poppy Sale for Auxiliary to Legion Post 211.
Avon on the Lake Garden Club will provide bouquets for graves of fallen veterans on Memorial Day. Various local visits and guest arrangements are noted as families and individuals spend weekends with relatives.
North Ridgeville Girl Scouts could not meet at Town Hall due to cleaning. Georgia Lasch invited the troop to her home while plans are made for a May Festival on Town Hall grounds Saturday May 25 featuring games songs and skits concluding with the crowning of the May queen.
Wellington Ohio council session discusses paving Dickason street, opening a new street from Lincoln to Maple, raising inspector Cordray’s salary from 125 to 150, street light plans for Herrick Avenue East, and a sidewalk survey. Residents raise concerns about sharp street corners and potential housing growth from new street.
Hamlin Woman's Relief Corps met in G A R Memorial hall with good attendance. Marie Friend won the attendance prize. Committees for Decoration Day were reminded of duties. Delegates to the Columbus convention June 16 to 20 were named. Members and sick list updates were noted. May Queen Georgia Lasch and attendants were listed with pantomime crowning plans.
Ten Garden Club members gathered at Mrs Salisbury's home on Tuesday morning to finish town hall draperies and plan upcoming events. They approved keeping Mrs J Gibbons in good standing with the Cleveland Garden Center and discussed a fall play, a late September flower show with Mrs Markham as chair, and raising straw flowers for boutonnières. The club flower will be the giant zinnia, and the next pot luck garden party will be at the Morgan home on June 18 with rain backup at the town hall.
Mr. Custiss won the position of treasurer at the most recent Parent-Teacher Association meeting joining officers elected to lead the group.
Mrs. Andrew Rawson, county council president, presided as Wellington Parent Teachers Association installed officers for the coming year at the school house Tuesday night. The slate includes Alta Herrick president for a second year, W. W. Blakeley vice president, Mrs. George Aldrich secretary, Miss Mildred Exkenberry treasurer.
Lillywood Rebekah lodge members met Tuesday night to plan a future card party and talk over fixing up their new hall with fifteen attending. I O O F met the same night focusing on remodeling issues.
Bernice Buckingham was honored by 40 friends and relatives Friday after graduating from Belden High School. A reception at her parents home, Mr and Mrs Thomas Buckingham, followed the ceremony with many lovely gifts and refreshments served to guests.
On Frank McIntire’s farm a garage was partly wrecked and a car damaged during Sunday afternoon’s storm. The same system caused considerable tree damage in the Grafton area.
A reception followed the graduation of Merle Jr from Belden High School held Friday.
A long list of Amherst Elyria Lorain Belden and Grafton residents hosted and visited across weekends. Guests included Augusta Sutorius Grace Hays Atlantic City and many local families sharing meals and hospitality.
Norman Cramer, a seventh to ninth grade student, won a state Farmers Institute poster contest award in Ohio. Reports indicate he attends Eaton Township school, with yesterday’s note listing Belden school as his earlier affiliation.
Mr and Mrs Charles Bruce of Elyria Road hosted Sunday guests including Mr and Mrs H J Emerson of East Cleveland and Mr and Mrs A L Haury with their son Frank McNabb from Cleveland. A Sunday visit by Mrs Leon Lehman occurred, and Walter Derkevits visited F C Erhart in North Olmsted and stayed with Mr and Mrs C J Albrett in Cleveland. Mrs J D Mennell and Mrs Anna Hosler called on Mrs Clarence Walkden in Elyria.
Dancing by Lana Turner and George Murphy highlights the musical drama now showing at the Capitol theatre. The feature spotlights performers in a lively stage production with showy numbers and early cinema style glamour.
Western at Rivoli Theatre pits Gene Autry and Jane Withers as members of rival feuding clans in a tense frontier town. Audience follows their clash and reluctant alliance amidst gunplay and moral codes.
In Montesano Washington Louisa Capriotti age 2 astonishes by naming 150 places on the globe as her parents talk about the Russia Finland conflict. The piece highlights a child prodigy reacting to current events.
Philadelphia zoo reports the death of its lone aardwolf, the only captive of its kind. Officials say the animal cannot be replaced as South Africa prohibits further captures. The nocturnal creature slept most of the day and roamed at night.
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