Swarthout in Ambush proves straight drama fits star
Hollywood chatter notes Gladys Swarthout, miscast as a dramatic actress, delivers a strong performance in Ambush. The column critiques studio assumptions about her singing fame, praising her opera magnetism and potential in non musical roles. Also comments on other Paramount idols and industry quirks.
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Hollywood
Paramount
Gladys Swarthout
Gladys Swarthnut
Missouri
United States
Conservatives And Liberals Draw Lines
Washington, Nov one show down to decide real winners of the election. Conservatives clash with New Dealers over labor taxes spending and farm relief as LaGuardia leads left liberals in surveying post election wreckage. Roosevelt faces third term talk and Senate confirmation debates loom amid a waning New Deal majority. Farm prices fall and relief politics spark charges of political involvement by relief workers. Henry A Wallace spokesmen speak in the Senate about farm policy debts and funding.
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Washington
Fiorello H. la Guardia
New York
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
South
Congress
Donald Wakefield Smith
National Relations Board
Senate
American Federation of Labor
Smith
Committee For Industrial Organization
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Union Pacific set scene sparked by deer dispute
The piece describes Cecil B. De Mille arguing with his chief prop man over using a freshly killed deer in a Union Pacific scene. Hope performs in one take while director mocks delays. De Mille insists on borrowing a deer to preserve realism, delaying the hunt to avoid spoiling the shot.
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Eliot Nugent
Martha Raye
Bob Hope
Bob
Nugent
Mr. Hope
Martha
Union Pacific
Cecil B. de Mille
DeMille
C. B
Beginnings of Organized Crime In Ancient Egypt Trade Guilds
A fragmented OCR passage notes that ancient Egyptian robbers formed mutual aid groups to warn against capture and to indicate their prospects, framing the origin of organized crime as linked to early trade guilds and male factors.
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Egypt
Roosevelt faces reshaping New Deal after midterm losses
Senators Pope and McGill were defeated, signaling a late battle over relief policy. Debates focus on whether to return relief authority to states or keep Congress in control of earmarked grants. With the 75th Congress to convene January 3, 1939, Roosevelt weighs reorganization and shifts toward conservative Democratic lines or continued New Deal expansion alongside progressives.
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James P. Pope
Idaho
Jostin
George McGill
Kan
Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Oberlin Grange Holds Busy Meeting and Supper
Oberlin Grange No 1003 met with forty five members. A new stage curtain was purchased. Plans for a football banquet supper and a youth group supper were made. Winners and attendees were named for contests, and light improvements were discussed.
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Oberlin Grange
F. W. Brown
Lottie Sandrock
Gertrude Schramm
The
Grange
Oelock
Edward Schramm
Tom Ketch
Honolulu businessman makes quick Island to Mainland trip
Ed Lewis, a 69 year old Honolulu business man, completed a rapid round trip between Hawaii and the mainland. He left on a Tuesday aboard the Hawaiian Clipper, reached Oakland on Wednesday, visited his daughter in Sacramento, took the China Clipper back on Thursday, and returned to Honolulu to resume business on Friday.
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Oakland
Cal
Ed Lewis
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Sacramento
Library Clients Have Varied Interests
Elyria Library readers show wide and varied interests with long reserve lists. Popular titles include With Malice Toward Some with more than twenty readers waiting, Listen to the Wind, and Fashion and personality topics such as Your Personality and The Horse and Buggy Doctor.
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Elyria
Edna Moore
Darrow
McIntyre
Maine
America
Book Lists Highlight Classic Titles in Library Catalog
A literary roundup notes popular fiction and non fiction holdings with prominent entries including Handbook and Van Dorn's Benjamin Franklin. The Yearling leads the fiction section, reflecting strong reader interest in timeless novels and enduring biographies within the library's catalog.
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van Dorn
Benjamin Franklin
Ridgeville Grange To Elect Officers
Ridgeville Grange held a meeting with Master E A Brandt presiding. A favorable Paper Committee report was read and the degree team turned over fifty nine dollars from socials. Illness noted for Mrs Detwiler and Mr Obitts. Next meeting will elect officers. Rural Youth work and folk dances were showcased.
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N. Ridgeville
Ridgeville
Grange
E. A. Brandt
Treasury
Detwiler
Rural Youth urged at gathering with Deputy Master
The text notes the event was enjoyed by both young and old and reports Deputy Master Frank Mason presenting and urging attendees to work for the Rural Youth program.
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Frank Mason
Convicts Buy Bus to Take Prison Team on Games
Prison inmates at the Missouri penitentiary have purchased and refurbished a used bus to transport their ball teams to out of town games across rural Missouri, enabling coordinated travel for athletic events and competitions.
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Jefferson City
Prisners
Missouri Penitentiary
Missouri
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